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Bilginsoy, Cihan | Prevailing wage regulations and school construction costs: evidence from British Columbia | The stock of public school buildings constructed during the baby boom is aging along with that generation of Americans. Soon much of this building stock will have to be replaced.(FN1) The financing of this rebuilding of America's schools is an emergent political issue of considerable importance. Giv... | | 2000-01-01 |
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Seger, Jon | Natural history and evolution of paper-wasps | Paper-wasps occupy a special place in the history of animal behavior. Temperate species o f Polistes are large, beautiful, intelligent, adaptable, easy to observe, and thoroughly committed to social life. They are also aptly named, being intensely political, in the limited sense that any nonhuman an... | Individuals; Excellent; Phylogeny | 1997 |
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Capecchi, Mario R.; Tvrdik, Petr | Hoxb1 functions in both motoneurons and in tissues of the periphery to establish and maintain the proper neuronal circuitry. | Formation of neuronal circuits in the head requires the coordinated development of neurons within the central nervous system (CNS) and neural crest-derived peripheral target tissues. Hoxb1, which is expressed throughout rhombomere 4 (r4), has been shown to be required for the specification of facial... | Rhombomere 4; Branchiomotor; Cranial Nerve | 2004-07-04 |
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Davidson, Diane W. | Herbivory on planted dipterocarp seedlings in secondary logged forests and primary forests of Sabah, Malaysia | Leaf defences, leaf nutritional quality and leaf expansion rates may vary with resource availabilities to plants. Such variation could affect rates of leaf loss to herbivores, particularly along the steep resource gradients in disturbed forests. Intraspecific and interspecific variation in leaf dama... | Danum Valley; Dipterocarp; Dryobalanops lanceolata; Herbivory rates; Leaf damage; Leaf expansion rates; Logged tropical forests; Secondary forests; Shorea leprosula | 2001-03 |
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Sekercioglu, Cagan | Causes and consequences of bird extinctions | Increased human domination of the planet has caused the declines and extinctions of countless species. Each species has not only intrinsic value, but ecological functions of organisms are also essential for the integrity of ecosystems that allow people to benefit from essential free ecosystem servic... | | 2003-01-01 |