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The human iliotibial band is specialized for elastic energy storage compared with the chimp fascia lata
(The Company of Biologists, 2015)This study examines whether the human iliotibial band (ITB) is specialized for elastic energy storage relative to the chimpanzee fascialata (FL). To quantify the energy storage potential of these structures, we created ... -
Human or Natural Disturbance: Landscape-Scale Dynamics of the Tropical Forests of Puerto Rico
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1999)Increasingly, ecologists are recognizing that human disturbance has played an important role in tropical forest history and that many assumptions concerning the relative importance of natural processes warrant re-examination. ... -
Human pluripotent stem cells recurrently acquire and expand dominant negative P53 mutations
(Springer Nature, 2017)Background: Depressive disorders are the second-leading cause of global disability, and an area of increasing focus in international health efforts. We describe a community health worker (CHW) program rolled out in a ... -
Human punishment is motivated by inequity aversion, not a desire for reciprocity
(The Royal Society, 2012)Humans involved in cooperative interactions willingly pay a cost to punish cheats. However, the proximate motives underpinning punitive behaviour are currently debated. Individuals who interact with cheats experience losses, ... -
Human temperatures for syndromic surveillance in the emergency department: data from the autumn wave of the 2009 swine flu (H1N1) pandemic and a seasonal influenza outbreak
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: The emergency department (ED) increasingly acts as a gateway to the evaluation and treatment of acute illnesses. Consequently, it has also become a key testing ground for systems that monitor and identify ... -
Human Visual Search Does Not Maximize the Post-Saccadic Probability of Identifying Targets
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Researchers have conjectured that eye movements during visual search are selected to minimize the number of saccades. The optimal Bayesian eye movement strategy minimizing saccades does not simply direct the eye to whichever ... -
Human Wagering Behavior Depends on Opponents' Faces
(Public Library of Science, 2010)Research in competitive games has exclusively focused on how opponent models are developed through previous outcomes and how peoples' decisions relate to normative predictions. Little is known about how rapid impressions ... -
The Human-Capital Century and American Leadership: Virtues of the Past
(Cambridge University Press, 2001)The modern concept of the wealth of nations emerged by the early twentieth century. Capital embodied in people—human capital—mattered. The United States led all nations in mass postelementary education during the “human-capital ... -
Humanism in the Vernacular: The Case of Leonardo Bruni
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Humanist Academies and the "Platonic Academy of Florence"
(Odense University Press (Copenhagen) for the Danish Institute in Rome (Det Danske Institut i Rom), 2009)A comparative study of the humanist academies of Bessarion, Pomponio Leto, Giovanni Gioviano Pontano and Marsilio Ficino, arguing that Ficino's supposed academy resembles an informal school and is not, like the other ... -
Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy: The Commonplace Book
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Humans use a unique mechanism to stabilize the head during running
(Oxford University Press, 2006)Mammals must stabilize the head during running to keep angular accelerations of head within the operating range of the vestibulo-ocular (VOR) reflexes. However, several unique aspects of the human body plan and locomotor ... -
Humidity Dependence of the Condensational Growth of Pinene Secondary Organic Aerosol Particles
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2021-08-18)The influence of relative humidity (RH) on the condensational growth of organic aerosol particles remains incompletely understood. Herein, the RH dependence was investigated via a series of experiments for α-pinene ozonolysis ... -
Hummingbird flight
(Elsevier BV, 2012)Hummingbirds are very distinctive in their form and behavior, the evolution of which is tightly connected to the evolution of their primary source of energy — floral nectar. About forty million years ago, the practical use ... -
Hummingbird flight stability and control in freestream turbulent winds.
(Company of Biologists, 2015)Airflow conditions close to the Earth’s surface are often complex, posing challenges to flight stability and control for volant taxa. Relatively little is known about how well flying animals can contend with complex, ... -
Hunting Galaxies to (and for) Extinction
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Hurricane Impacts to Tropical and Temperate Forest Landscapes
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1994)Hurricanes represent an important natural disturbance process to tropical and temperate forests in many coastal areas of the world. The complex patterns of damage created in forests by hurricane winds result from the ... -
Hushuo 胡說: The Northern Other and the Naming of the Han Chinese
(University of California Press, 2012) -
Hushuo: The Northern Other and the naming of the Han Chinese
(University of California Press, 2012) -
Hybrid Biosynthesis of Roseobacticides from Algal and Bacterial Precursor Molecules
(American Chemical Society, 2014)Roseobacticides regulate the symbiotic relationship between a marine bacterium (Phaeobacter inhibens) and a marine microalga (Emiliania huxleyi). This relationship can be mutualistic, when the algal host provides food for ...