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Shakespeare in Chronological Order
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Margreta de Grazia
Published: 03 May 2021
... those of their performance or of their publication, remain conjectural. It is because chronology, the schema that attributes each play to one hand at one point in time, cannot accommodate the complexities (coauthorship, revision, and adaptation) that are now seen to constitute the canon. canon...
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Published: 07 October 2022
... Nasdaka English pedagogy coteaching Roaring English Scholastic Aptitude Test SAT spoken English submarket Supernova adaptation as a case of TOEFL GRE submarket performative pedagogy Pioneers anxiety residency based admission policy Japan middle class middle class families opportunism...
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Published: 19 December 2023
... Dube E Furtan W H Hill R L Moore D Motta A C Muchaonyerwa P Munkholm L Sanders C Shanks L Steele M Unger P W Vigil M F Wulanningtyas H He W Luo X Radočaj D Sun G Blaustein Rejto D Myers R Tellatin S Weber A Bowman M Lee D Lynch L Tilman D K cover crops drought adaptation yield...
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Published: 07 August 2024
... and challenged them to find new ways of mobilizing support. Why have some parties been able to adapt their platform or organization in response to these and other transformations, whereas other parties have failed to make such adaptive reforms, implemented only minor changes, or taken significantly longer...
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The Fairy, the Myrtle, and the Myrtle-Maiden: From Basile to the Grimms and Brentano
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Armando Maggi
Published: 28 July 2015
... Susanne Emmerick Anna Katharina Frye Lawrence Frances of Rome Saint Luther Martin Lucretius On the Nature of Things Lüthi Max Basile Brentano Myrtle Brothers Grimm orality moralization romanticism adaptation The previous chapter ended with speculation about the married fairy’s possible...
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Salt Marshes: A Disappearing Act
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Catherine Owen Koning and others
Published: 09 August 2019
... depressa knotted wrack Ascophyllum nodosum mouse mummichog nitrogen pannes Marsh rails salt grass inland Distichlis spicata salt marsh sea blite Suaeda spp sediment shrew soil sparrow wrack knotted Ascophyllum nodosum adaptations New England Pine Creek Marsh plants wetland blackgrass...
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Plant Sensing and Communication as Adaptations
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Richard Karban
Published: 18 June 2015
...For a trait to be considered as an adaptation shaped by natural selection, it must have been variable, heritable, and increased the relative fitness of individuals that possessed it relative to other traits. Phylogenetic analyses can suggest the likely history of traits involved with plant sensing...
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Hormonal Pleiotropy and the Evolution of Correlated Traits
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Joel W. McGlothlin and Ellen D. Ketterson
Published: 05 April 2016
...One of the fundamental properties of hormones is that they underlie the expression of suites of correlated traits. To the extent that this hormonal mediation has a genetic basis, hormones may act to either accelerate or slow adaptive evolution. Selection on one trait within a hormone-mediated suite...
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Published: 27 September 2012
...This chapter discusses the design of incentive-based policies for climate adaptation. It begins by discussing climate adaptation policies, including models used to describe optimal pricing and capacity decisions with stochastic demand, and then describes the current pricing policies for the private...
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Published: 27 January 2017
...Hibberd considers two stage adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein appearing in London in 1823: Richard Brinsley Peake’s Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein, which played at the English Opera House near the Strand, and Henry Milner’s Frankenstein; or the Man and the Monster...
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Adaptations for resisting lice
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Dale H. Clayton and others
Published: 21 December 2015
...In this chapter we review adaptation of birds and mammals for combatting lice and reducing their effects on host fitness. Some of these adaptations appear to be specific to lice, while others are also effective against other ectoparasites. Overall, birds and mammals have three broad strategies...
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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: An Analysis of Challenges and Adaptive Options
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Susan G. Clark and Christina Milloy
Published: 27 May 2014
... and offers three strategic options to adapt the model to new circumstances and enhance wildlife conservation. anglers fishermen agency partiality for constitutive decision process xi hunting Arizona's decline in North American Model of Wildlife Conservation adapting the formula of scientific management...
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Vampire Bats
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John W. Hermanson and Gerald G. Carter
Published: 05 October 2020
...The common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus, white-winged vampire bat Diaemus youngi, and hairy-legged vampire bat Diphylla ecaudata are the only mammals that feed exclusively on blood. Their blood-feeding lifestyle shapes virtually every aspect of their biology. Adaptations linked to blood-feeding...
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Divining Adaptation
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Emily Pawley
Published: 06 April 2020
...Chapter 6 examines the success with which improvers convinced themselves that certain landscapes were innately “adapted” to particular future modes of production, an assumption built into free trade ideology. It begins by addressing the idea of adaptation, a concept that both improvers...
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The Theory of Ecological Specialization
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Timothée Poisot
Published: 07 January 2020
...Ecological specificity describes the affinity of an organism for a subset of every axis forming its ecological niche. It is a powerful concept that integrates concepts in evolutionary biology, such as local adaptation, with those in ecology, such as dispersal and biotic interactions. This chapter...
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The Lego Game: The Genesis of Visible Life
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Alexandre Meinesz
Published: 15 September 2008
... complexity of life. Finally, the chapter considers the very strange parallelism of multicellularity: the fact that diverse, independent lineages of life all adopted multicellular structure and specialization of cells. Is this coincidence a simple convergence of adaptation to a shared lifestyle? Or does...
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American Episodes in the Life of the Artist
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Jonathan Kregor
Published: 05 August 2024
... Alfred Lind Jenny Meyer Conrad Patti Adelina Sontag Henriette Rêverie et caprice Symphonie fantastique Mason William Thomas Theodore Berlioz Hector Hector Berlioz American reception criticism cultural transfer adaptation Leopold de Meyer Louis Moreau Gottschalk Bernard Ullman Theodore...
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Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
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Philip Gossett
Published online: 21 March 2013
Published in print: 03 September 2006
...? In addition to vexing questions such as these, the author also tackles issues of ornamentation and transposition in vocal style, the matters of translation and adaptation, and even aspects of stage direction and set design. Throughout this work, the text enlivens a personal history with reports personal own...
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American Agriculture, Water Resources, and Climate Change
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Gary D. Libecap (ed.) and Ariel Dinar (ed.)
Published online: 23 May 2024
Published in print: 19 December 2023
... practices, and profitability, and analyzes technological, agronomic, management, and institutional adjustments. Adaptations such as new crops, production practices, irrigation technologies, water conveyance infrastructure, fertilizer application, and increased use of groundwater can generate both social...
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Published: 07 October 2022
... the fruit of adaptation. The second part of this chapter notes how Supernova’s intraorganizational conflict facilitated its IPO. As Supernova and its competitors embarked on overseas stock markets, they accelerated the formalization of their structures and procedures. The last section of this chapter...