Selection against domestication alleles in introduced rabbit populations by Andrade, P, Alves, JM, Pereira, P, Rubin, C-J, Silva, E, Sprehn, CG, Enbody, E, Afonso, S, Faria, R, Zhang, Y, Bonino, N, Duckworth, JA, Garreau, H, Letnic, M, Strive, T, Thulin, C-G, Queney, G, Villafuerte, R, Jiggins, FM, Ferrand, N, Andersson, L, Carneiro, M

“…This limited parallelism is probably explained by extensive standing genetic variation resulting from domestication together with the complex mixed ancestry of introduced populations. Our findings shed light on the selective and molecular mechanisms that enable domestic animals to re-adapt to the wild and provide important insights for the mitigation and management of invasive populations.…”

International differences in conservation priorities are more complicated than Global North-Global South divisions by Mutinhima, Y, Sibanda, L, Rono, B, Kulunge, S, Kimaili, D, Dickman, A, Madsen, E, Mandoloma, L, Tacey, J, Allred, S, Hare, D

“… Two enduring ideological divisions in biodiversity conservation concern whether conservation should prioritise a) the interests of people or wild animals, and b) the interests of individual animals or groups of animals. …”

An effective vortex detection approach for velocity vector field by Ho, Shen-Shyang.

“…The vortex detection algorithm allows one to find the exact vortex center efficiently if it is in the vector field. …”
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We’re too busy singing: acoustic analysis with apes by French, Fiona, Good, Stephen, Mokkadem, Karim, Frost, Naomi, Finch, Katherine

“…Ultimately, we are planning a deeper investigation of auditory perception, by developing interactive devices that offer agency to non-humans and enable us to find out more about the hearing capabilities of different species.…”
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Effects of temperature and velocity on chlorine dispersion in an indoor storage system using computational fluid dynamics simulation by Safakar, Mohsen

“…Moreover, it was found that the chlorine density gradually increased on the ground level. Specifically, findings from this research revealed that mixing results for chlorine dispersion patterns are subject to different levels of temperature, wind amount, and wind direction. …”
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Study of planning and operational aspects of tidal in-stream power generation by Mahda J. Jahromi

“…So eventually whenever the required literature in the marine category was missing or was found to be insufficient, the vast literature of the studies in wind energy focusing on similar issues were perceived as inspiring guides and solution to the problem; this is why you will find many of the cited papers in the context to be wind related studies. …”
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To What Extent Do Alternative Energy Sources Displace Coal and Oil in Electricity Generation? A Mean-Group Panel Analysis by Liddle, Brantley

“…As such, our approach avoids/addresses several statistical issues common in long-macro panel analyses—heterogeneity, nonstationarity, and cross-sectional dependence—that have largely been ignored/unaddressed in previous displacement studies. Ultimately, we find that the displacement effect is small and only marginally significant for nuclear, and is significant though less than unity for natural gas and hydro, whereas intermittent renewables (solar and wind) have unitary displacement effect. …”
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Home by Pei, Qianru

“…This project is a self-exploitary journey to find out where is home for me and people like me. …”
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Variation of stiffness of two magnetically coupled beams for broadband energy harvesting by Xiao, Jincheng

“…The distances between the tip magnets was changed to find the optimal configuration for this non-linear PEH system. …”
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Thermo-catalytic decomposition of cotton seed press cake over nickel doped zeolite Y, hydrogen: enhanced yield of bio-oil with highly selective fuel-range hydrocarbons by Afraz, Marrij, Nisar, Jan, Shah, Afzal, Ali, Ghulam, Muhammad, Faisal, Anwar, Farooq, Wan Abdul Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina

“…Moreover, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) of cotton seed press cake with catalyst was carried out at various heating rates to find out the kinetic parameters. Employing Kissinger model, activation energy (Ea) and frequency factor (A) for various components of biomass i.e., hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin were calculated as 83.14 kJ mol−1, 99.76 kJ mol−1, 124.71 kJ mol−1 and 1.9 × 107 min−1, 1.0 × 108 min−1, 1.0 × 1010 min−1, respectively. …”
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Chimpanzee self-medication in Budongo Forest: investigating the use of putative self-medicative resources in the Sonso and Waibira communities by Freymann, E

“…<p>This DPhil project explores established and putative self-medicative behaviors amongst wild chimpanzees (<em>Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii</em>) in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. …”

Hybrid fuzzy logic active force control for trajectory tracking of a quadrotor system by Abdelmaksoud, Sherif I., Mailah, Musa, Tang, H. Hing

“…Findings indicate that the proposed strategy enhanced the performance of around 67, 91, and 50% for forward, sideward, and upward motions, respectively. …”

Modeling of outdoor natural ventilation and energy performance for multiple buildings in an industrial park of Singapore by Tang, Soon Tuck

“…Reference Model (East Wind) 2. Reference Model (West Wind) 3. Model 1 – Reference Model with façade guiding vent (East Wind) 4. …”
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Reverse translational approaches to population neuroimaging: using rodent models to interpret genetic associations with MRI by Tisca, C

“…</p> <p>This thesis proposes to investigate key findings from the UK Biobank population neuroimaging studies using mouse models. …”

The role of PTEN in human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells mediated tumor cells suppression. by Toh, Xin Yi.

“…With the observed 26.2% of cell enhancement in MSC/ ∆Gli36-shPTEN co-culture, findings from the loss- of- function assay had indicated that expression of PTEN could be correlated with MSC-mediated suppression. …”
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Presence of IgG antibodies is not a reliable marker of Toxoplasma gondii infection in feral mice by Lignereux, Louis, Tong, Wen Han, Tan, Sijie, Vyas, Ajai, O'handley, Ryan

“…Our findings indicate that serological studies should not be used to measure the level of exposure to T.gondii in feral house mice.…”
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Rethinking China's engagement in Africa. by Liu, Xue.

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Data for the ‘Orchid Observers’ project by Shuttleworth, S, O’Donnell, J, Lintott, C, Tweddle, J

“…The Natural History Museum (NHM) wants to find out if this is true for other wild orchids and whether all species are responding in the same way. …”

Genotype-phenotype maps for gene networks: from evolution to computation by Camargo, FQ

“…For both modelling frameworks, the GRN GP maps exhibit all the structural properties found in the literature, as well as simplicity bias. We also find that the number of genotypes mapping to the wild-type phenotypes for various GRNs is unusually large, and argue that this is evidence that the structure of the GP map plays an important role in determining evolutionary outcomes.…”

Vision-language-model-based video quality assessment by Zhang, Erli

“…This work not only advances the state-of-the-art in VQA but also sets the stage for future research in evaluating and enhancing the quality of in-the-wild videos.…”
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