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Morphology to the rescue: molecular data and the signal of morphological characters in combined phylogenetic analyses-a case study from mysmenid spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with comments on the evolution of web architecture
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)The limits and the interfamilial relationships of the minute orb-weaving symphytognathoid spiders have remained contentious and poorly understood. The circumscription and diagnosis of the symphytognathoid family Mysmenidae ... -
A Morphometrics-Based Phylogeny of the Temperate Gondwanan Mite Harvestmen (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae)
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)A phylogenetic estimation of the temperate Gondwanan mite harvestman family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) was conducted using 143 morphological variables (59 raw and 84 scaled measurements) from 37 ingroup ... -
A morphospace of planktonic marine diatoms. I. Two views of disparity through time
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015)Both molecular clocks and the first appearances of major groups in the fossil record suggest that most of the range of diatom morphologies observed today had evolved by the end of the Cretaceous Period. Despite this, a ... -
A morphospace of planktonic marine diatoms. II. Sampling standardization and spatial disparity partitioning
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015)Morphospace occupation through time provides a view of diversification distinct from the more familiar taxonomic tabulations. However, this view is subject to the same geological biases long recognized in studies of taxonomic ... -
Morphospaces and Databases: Diatom Diversification through Time
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2015)The diversity of diatom form inspired Art Nouveau designers, an interest renewed by recent advances in biomimetic design. The fossil record provides two windows on the diversification history of diatoms: taxonomic diversity ... -
Mortal God: The Religious Imagination and The Making of The Leviathan
(2023-09-08)The most famous work of Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, was greeted by his contemporaries with a fierce hostility. It was claimed that Hobbes had reduced “every thing in the whole world that is good” into power, gutted precious ... -
Mortality After the Hospitalization of a Spouse
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2006)Background: The illness of a spouse can affect the health of a caregiving partner. We examined the association between the hospitalization of a spouse and a partner’s risk of death among elderly people. Methods: We studied ... -
Mortality tradeoff between air quality and skin cancer from changes in stratospheric ozone
(IOP Publishing, 2018-03-01)Skin cancer mortality resulting from stratospheric ozone depletion has been widely studied. Similarly, there is a deep body of literature on surface ozone and its health impacts, with modeling and observational studies ... -
Mortgage Market Design
(Oxford, 2012-11-08)This article explores the causes and consequences of cross-country variation in mortgage market structure. It draws on insights from several fields: urban economics, asset pricing, behavioral finance, financial intermediation, ... -
Mosaic Physics and the Search for a Pious Natural Philosophy in the Late Renaissance
(University of Chicago Press, 2000)In the tense religious climate of the late Renaissance (ca. 1550-1650), traditional charges of impiety directed against Aristotle carried new weight. Many turned to alternative philosophical authorities in the search for ... -
Moses' Beginning
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MOSS: A Mobile Operating System Substrate
(1995)The Mobile Operating System Substrate (MOSS) is a new system architecture for wireless mobile computing being developed at Harvard. MOSS provides highly efficient, robust and flexible virtual device access over wireless ... -
The Most Egalitarian of All Professions: Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation
(University of Chicago Press, 2015)Pharmacy has become a female-majority profession that is highly remunerated with a small gender earnings gap and low earnings dispersion relative to other occupations. We sketch a labor market framework based on the theory ... -
A Most Egalitarian Profession: Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation
(University of Chicago Press, 2016)Pharmacy today is a highly remunerated female-majority profession with a small gender earnings gap and low earnings dispersion. Using extensive surveys of pharmacists, as well as the US Census, American Community Surveys, ... -
Most neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies target novel epitopes requiring both Lassa virus glycoprotein subunits
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Lassa fever is a severe multisystem disease that often has haemorrhagic manifestations. The epitopes of the Lassa virus (LASV) surface glycoproteins recognized by naturally infected human hosts have not been identified or ... -
Most Reported Genetic Associations with General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives
(Sage, 2012)General intelligence (g) and virtually all other behavioral traits are heritable. Associations between g and specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in several candidate genes involved in brain function have been ... -
"Most Were Much Affected and Many In Much Distress:" The Great Awakening
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A moth pheromone brewery: production of (Z)-11-hexadecenol by heterologous co-expression of two biosynthetic genes from a noctuid moth in a yeast cell factory
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Moths (Lepidoptera) are highly dependent on chemical communication to find a mate. Compared to conventional unselective insecticides, synthetic pheromones have successfully served to lure male moths as a specific ... -
Mother Love and Mental Illness: An Emotional History
(University of Chicago Press, 2016)This essay aims to illuminate the historical origins of psychiatric concern with mother love – and especially mother love gone wrong. It looks particularly at ways in which a combination of wartime research, postwar social ... -
The mother of all endocytosis
(eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2013)Massive endocytosis is initiated by a series of steps that involve a sudden influx of calcium ions, changes in mitochondria, and modification of surface proteins by lipids. A better understanding of this process could lead ...