Học liệu mở OER: Recent submissions
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Social conformity despite individual preferences for distinctiveness
(2015)We demonstrate that individual behaviours directed at the attainment of distinctiveness can in fact produce complete social conformity. We thus offer an unexpected generative mechanism for this central social phenomenon. ... -
Implementing and testing Bayesian and maximum-likelihood supertree methods in phylogenetics
(2015)Since their advent, supertrees have been increasingly used in large-scale evolutionary studies requiring a phylogenetic framework and substantial efforts have been devoted to developing a wide variety of supertree methods ... -
Regional differentiation and extensive hybridization between mitochondrial clades of the Southern Ocean giant sea spider Colossendeis megalonyx
(2015)Assessing the enormous diversity of Southern Ocean benthic species and their evolutionary histories is a central task in the era of global climate change. Based on mitochondrial markers, it was recently suggested that the ... -
Analytical model of reactive transport processes with spatially variable coefficients
(2015)Analytical solutions of partial differential equation (PDE) models describing reactive transport phenomena in saturated porous media are often used as screening tools to provide insight into contaminant fate and transport ... -
Detection dog efficacy for collecting faecal samples from the critically endangered Cross River gorilla for genetic censusing
(2015)Population estimates using genetic capture–recapture methods from non-invasively collected wildlife samples are more accurate and precise than those obtained from traditional methods when detection and resampling rates are ... -
Study of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations for finding exact analytical solutions
(2015)Exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (NPDEs) are obtained via the enhanced (G_x0002_/G)-expansion method. The method is subsequently applied to find exact solutions of the Drinfel’d–Sokolov–Wilson ... -
Information use by humans during dynamic route choice in virtual crowd evacuations
(2015)We conducted a computer-based experiment with over 450 human participants and used a Bayesian model selection approach to explore dynamic exit route choice mechanisms of individuals in simulated crowd evacuations. In ... -
Morphological plasticity in a calcifyingmodular organism
(2015)Understanding is currently limited of the biological processes underlying the responses of modular organisms to climate change and the potential to adapt through morphological plasticity related to their modularity. Here, ... -
On the Helmert blocking technique
(2015)The Helmert-blocking technique is a common approach to adjust large geodetic networks like Europeans and Brazilians. The technique is based upon a division of the network into partial networks called blocks. This way, the ... -
Sex ratio effects on reproductive strategies in humans
(2015)Characterizations of coy females and ardent males are rooted in models of sexual selection that are increasingly outdated. Evolutionary feedbacks can strongly influence the sex roles and subsequent patterns of sex ... -
Calculating mutual information for spike trains and other data with distances but no coordinates
(2015)Many important data types, such as the spike trains recorded from neurons in typical electrophysiological experiments, have a natural notion of distance or similarity between data points, even though there is no obvious ... -
Nonlinear neutral inclusions
(2015)The problem of determining nonlinear neutral inclusions in (electrical or thermal) conductivity is considered. Neutral inclusions, inserted in a matrix containing a uniform applied electric field, do not disturb the field ... -
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(2015)Recent developments in the study of animal cognition and emotion have resulted in the ‘judgement bias’ model of animal welfare. Judgement biases describe the way in which changes in affective state are characterized by ... -
Diversification events and the effects of mass extinctions on Crocodyliformes evolutionary history
(2015)The rich fossil record of Crocodyliformes shows a much greater diversity in the past than today in terms of morphological disparity and occupation of niches. We conducted topology-based analyses seeking diversification ... -
Receiving of emotional signal of pain from conspecifics in laboratory rats
(2015)Though recent studies have shown that rodents express emotions with their face, whether emotional expression in rodents has a communicative function between conspecifics is still unclear. Here, we demonstrate the ability ... -
Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles
(2015)The regressive evolution of eyes has long intrigued biologists yet the genetic underpinnings remain opaque. A system of discrete aquifers in arid Australia provides a powerful comparative means to explore trait regression ... -
Rapid diversification and secondary sympatry in Australo-Pacific kingfishers
(2015)Todiramphus chlorisis the most widely distributed of the Pacific’s ‘great speciators’. Its 50 subspecies constitute a species complex that is distributed over 16 000km from the Red Sea to Polynesia. We present, to our ... -
Seasonal and ontogenetic variation of skinmicrobial communities and relationships to natural disease dynamics in declining amphibians
(2015)Recently, microbiologists have focused on characterizing the probiotic role of skin bacteria for amphibians threatened by the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. However, the specific characteristics of microbial diversity ... -
Theoretical constraints on the precision and age range of rehydroxylation dating
(2015)Accurate and precise dating methods are of central importance to archaeology, palaeontology and earth science. This paper investigates the expected precision and age range of rehydroxylation dating, a recently proposed ... -
The 20 item prosopagnosia index
(2015)Self-report plays a key role in the identification of developmental prosopagnosia (DP), providing complementary evidence to computer-based tests of face recognition ability, aiding interpretation of scores. However, the ...
