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Ebola Virus Epidemiology and Evolution in Nigeria
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Containment limited the 2014 Nigerian Ebola virus (EBOV) disease outbreak to 20 reported cases and 8 fatalities. We present here clinical data and contact information for at least 19 case patients, and full-length EBOV ... -
Ebola, jobs and economic activity in Liberia
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)Background: The 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the neighbouring West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone represents the most significant setback to the region's development in over a decade. ... -
Eccentricity Growth and Orbit Flip in Near-coplanar Hierarchical Three-body Systems
(American Astronomical Society, 2014)The secular dynamical evolution of a hierarchical three-body system in which a distant third object orbits around a binary has been studied extensively, demonstrating that the inner orbit can undergo large eccentricity and ... -
Echo Reduplication: When Too-Local Movement Requires PF-Distinctness
(Linguistics Dept., University of Maryland, 2004)This paper provides supporting evidence for a number of hypotheses made in recent models of derivational syntax. The phenomenon under study is shm-reduplication in English, a particular instance of the more general, ... -
Echoes of the Brain: Local-Scale Representation of Whole-Brain Functional Networks within Transmodal Cortex
(SAGE Publications, 2015)Transmodal (nonsensory-specific) regions sit at the confluence of different information streams, and play an important role in cognition. These regions are thought to receive and integrate information from multiple functional ... -
Echoes of the Brain: Local-Scale Representation of Whole-Brain Functional Networks within Transmodal Cortex
(SAGE Publications, 2015)Transmodal (nonsensory-specific) regions sit at the confluence of different information streams, and play an important role in cognition. These regions are thought to receive and integrate information from multiple functional ... -
Ecological Boundary Detection Using Bayesian Areal Wombling
(Ecological Society of America, 2010)The study of ecological boundaries and their dynamics is of fundamental importance to much of ecology, biogeography, and evolution. Over the past two decades, boundary analysis (of which wombling is a subfield) has received ... -
Ecological Changes in Miocene Mammalian Record Show Impact of Prolonged Climatic Forcing
(National Academy of Sciences, 2008)Geohistorical records reveal the long-term impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure. A 5-myr record of mammalian faunas from floodplain ecosystems of South Asia shows substantial change in species richness and ... -
Ecological character displacement: glass half full or half empty?
(Elsevier BV, 2013)Ecological character displacement (ECD), the evolutionary divergence of competing species, has oscillated wildly in scientific opinion. Initially thought to play a central role in community assembly and adaptive radiation, ... -
Ecological Genetics of Adaptive Color Polymorphism in Pocket Mice: Geographic Variation in Selected and Neutral Genes
(The Society for the Study of Evolution, 2004)Patterns of geographic variation in phenotype or genotype may provide evidence for natural selection. Here, we compare phenotypic variation in color, allele frequencies of a pigmentation gene (the melanocortin-1 receptor, ... -
Ecological network metrics: opportunities for synthesis
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)Network ecology provides a systems basis for approaching ecological questions, such as factors that influence biological diversity, the role of particular species or particular traits in structuring ecosystems, and long-term ... -
The Ecological Physiology of Earth's Second Oxygen Revolution
(Annual Reviews, 2015)Living animals display a variety of morphological, physiological, and biochemical characters that enable them to live in low-oxygen environments. These features and the organisms that have evolved them are distributed in ... -
Ecologically Relevant Cryptic Species in the Highly Polymorphic Amazonian Butterfly Mechanitis Mazaeus s.l. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae; Ithomiini)
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012-06-13)The understanding of mimicry has relied on a strong biosystematic framework ever since early naturalists first recognized this textbook example of natural selection. We follow in this tradition, applying new biosystematics ... -
The Ecology and Evolution of Patience in Two New World Monkeys
(The Royal Society, 2005)Decision making often involves choosing between small, short-term rewards and large, long-term rewards. All animals, humans included, discount future rewards-the present value of delayed rewards is viewed as less than the ... -
Ecology of hemiepiphytism in fig species is based on evolutionary correlation of hydraulics and carbon economy
(Ecological Society of America, 2011)Woody hemiepiphytic species (Hs) are important components of tropical rain forests, and they have been hypothesized to differ from non-hemiepiphytic tree species (NHs) in adaptations relating to water relations and carbon ... -
Ecometrics in the Age of Big Data: Measuring and Assessing "Broken Windows" Using Large-scale Administrative Records
(SAGE Publications, 2015)The collection of large-scale administrative records in electronic form by many cities provides a new opportunity for the measurement and longitudinal tracking of neighborhood characteristics, but one that requires novel ... -
An Ecomorphological Analysis of Native and Introduced Populations of the Endemic Lizard Anolis maynardi of the Cayman Islands
(BioOne, 2011)Anolis maynardi is an endemic anole from Little Cayman (Cayman Islands) that is characterized by an extremely elongated rostrum in males. In the 1980s, this species was discovered on the nearby island of Cayman Brac where ... -
Ecomusicology between Apocalypse and Nostalgia
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Economic Aspects of the Cold War, 1962-1975
(Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2003)US objectives during the Cold War were to prevent Soviet attacks on the United States and its allies and to prevent the spread of communism as a political and economic system to other countries, whether by force or by ... -
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
(American Economic Association, 2008)In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country’s laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well ...