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Forming competitively balanced teams
This article examines the problem of assigning individuals to teams to make the teams as similar as possible to each other across multiple attributes. This may be complicated by... -
Sample size recommendations for continuous-time models: Compensating shorter ...
Autoregressive modeling has traditionally been concerned with time-series data from one unit (N = 1). For short time series (T T, another source of information is often... -
Diversity-enhanced particle swarm optimization algorithm based on the group b...
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a representative swarm intelligence algorithm, which has the drawback of being restricted by premature convergence. To make PSO less likely... -
How much are we losing in not depositing anuran sound recordings in scientifi...
Anuran sound archives allow monitoring populations, studying animal communication, evolution, taxonomy, and natural history, besides evaluating historical events through the... -
Ibuprofen compromises sexual behavior and fertility in female rats exposed du...
The influence of ibuprofen exposure during the perinatal period, when the brain sexual differentiation process occurs, on the sexual behavior and fertility of female offspring... -
Are South African linefishes recovering and what makes them prone to overexpl...
Managing coastal fisheries is challenging as the status of many fish stocks caught in these fisheries remains unknown. In the South African linefishery, regular comprehensive... -
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While the sizeable literature on anti-immigrant parties commonly invokes the term “breakthrough” in discussing their electoral fortunes, no existing study has subjected this... -
Youth Migration and Labour Constraints in African Agrarian Households
Using panel data from Ethiopia and Malawi, we investigate how youth migration affects household labour, hired labour demand, and income, and whether these effects vary by... -
Effect of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor on lymphocy...
Effect of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor on lymphocyte subsets in patients with COVID-19 -
Sex and ideology: liberal and conservative responses to scandal
Research finds citizens are less likely to penalize politicians implicated in sex scandals compared to corruption. Still, observational data reveals that some politicians have... -
Bias Correction for Replacement Samples in Longitudinal Research
Missing data are commonly encountered problem in longitudinal research. One way researchers handle missing data is through the use of supplemental samples (i.e., the addition of... -
Cranial dimensions as estimators of body mass and locomotor habits in extant ...
ABSTRACTEstimating body mass and locomotor habits of fossil rodents is challenging for taxa without available postcranial material. Although equations exist to estimate body... -
Taxonomic identification of isolated phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) teeth ...
Numerous isolated teeth recovered from the Upper Triassic Tiki Formation of India have high, cylindrical, triangular to conical crowns with serrated mesial and distal carinae,... -
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Momo is becoming a popular mobile platform in China to date, hook up, and engage in social networking. Based on in-depth interviews with 35 dating app users and a survey of 250... -
Environmental enrichment during adolescence heightens ethanol intake in femal...
Background: Discriminating between adolescents who will eventually have ethanol use problems from those who do not is important. Environmental enrichment is a promising approach... -
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Two-Queen Colonies in central Highland Conditions of Ethiopia Increase Population Size and Honey Yield -
Diversity Deficit and Scale-Flip
We present a comprehensive multi-scale test of the diversity-deficit hypothesis that posits a negative association between diversity and development. We develop a ‘scale-flip... -
Implication of Size-Controlled Graphite Nanosheets as Building Blocks for The...
Preparation of three-dimensional (3-D) networks has received significant attention as an effective approach for applications involving transport phenomena, such as thermal... -
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Interest in information and communication technology (ICT) clusters has long been sustained by the power of emerging technologies to reinvent regional or local economies. Prior... -
Gender-related morphometric differences in mature and nestling Crowned Eagles...
Although most raptor species are sexually dimorphic, many species are non-discrete in some metrics. A limited amount of existing data for southern Africa suggests that Crowned...