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Heliconius butterfly genome explains wing pattern diversity

submitted by ricged 20 hours ago

Pooling funds and putting their heads together, more than 70 scientists from 9 institutions including the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, sequenced the entire genome of the butterfly genus...

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We can learn a lot from other species

submitted by ponniir 20 hours ago

Researchers at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute have confirmed the long-held belief that studying the genes we share with other animals is us...

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Resolving the ortholog conjecture

submitted by GlennNasi 20 hours ago

Researchers at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute have confirmed the long-held conjecture that studying the genes we share with other animals is a ...

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Current measures for distance decay in similarity of species composition are influenced by study extent and grain size

submitted by TrisSpe 1 day ago

The relationship between geographic distance and similarity in species composition is regularly used as a measure of species turnover and beta diversity. Distance–decay analyses are applied, cite...

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Cranial anatomy, taxonomic implications and palaeopathology of an Upper Jurassic pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from Westbury, Wiltshire, UK

submitted by mothiw70 1 day ago

Complete skulls of giant marine reptiles of the Late Jurassic are rare, and so the discovery of the 1.8-m-long skull of a pliosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Kimmeridgian) of Westbury, Wil...

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Annual accumulation over the greenland ice sheet interpolated from historical and newly compiled observation data

submitted by takwefe37 1 day ago

The estimation of ice/snow accumulation is of great significance in quantifying the mass balance of ice sheets and variation in water resources. Improving the accuracy and reducing uncertainty has ...

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Town versus Gown: The Effect of a College on Housing Prices and the Tax Base

submitted by mars1999 1 day ago

The analysis reported here suggests that the presence of a college is associated with house prices that are about 2.7 percent higher. However, the effect is caused only by 4-year colleges, and the ...

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Resource Flows and the Decomposition of Regional Inequality in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Metropolitan Region, 1990–2004

submitted by aroxxaleinvo 1 day ago

This paper introduces a new way of decomposing regional inequality. It divides the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei metropolitan region into three sets of districts in terms of the urban–rural resource ...

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Regional Convergence in Mexico, 1970–2005: A Panel Data Approach

submitted by RexEllio 1 day ago

This paper empirically analyzes regional disparity in terms of convergence of per capita income across Mexican states for the period 1970–2005. In particular, this study extends the conventional ...

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“Debrucing” the Link between Tax and Expenditure Limits and Special District Governments

submitted by ondriwrjb 1 day ago

We provide a direct test of the extent to which the stringency of a Tax and Expenditure Limit (TEL) influences the creation of special district governments by examining one of the strictest TELs in...

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Shaping the Rural–Urban Symbiosis: Density, Dispersal, Remoteness, and Town Size in South-East Australia

submitted by drdels 1 day ago

Within the context of economic and social change in rural Australia, this paper identifies four structural dimensions of non-metropolitan communities that are shown to influence a range of areal an...

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Poverty, Innovation Capacity, and State Economic Development in the Knowledge Economy: Evidence from the U.S

submitted by rbrawn 1 day ago

We examine poverty's effect in two ways. First, we study the relationship between poverty and capacity for innovation in the U.S. states; second, we study the combined effects of poverty and innova...

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Productive Efficiency and Territorial Externalities in Small and Medium-Sized Industrial Firms: A Dynamic Analysis of the District Effect

submitted by 72796 1 day ago

A series of works have analysed differential behaviour in terms of productive efficiency between companies inside a hypothetical industrial district and those outside the district. This objective h...

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Reconceptualizing Resistance: Residuals of the State and Democratic Radical Pluralism

submitted by drmoraf 1 day ago

Arguing that resistance to the state is too narrow a conceptualization of a political project that challenges neoliberalism, we posit that there are latent, residual apparatuses of the state which ...

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Locating Neoliberalism in Dubai: Migrant Workers and Class Struggle in the Autocratic City

submitted by qualitybm 1 day ago

In recent years, portrayals of neoliberalism in Dubai have often hinged on narratives about the hyper-exploitation of migrant workers in the city. In this paper I interrogate these narratives by ex...

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