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Open AccessThe FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus
NASA’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission will make the first in situ measurements of the solar corona and the birthplace of the solar wind. The FIELDS instrument suite on SPP will make direct measurements of electri...
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Open AccessInter- and intra-year variation in foraging areas of breeding kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)
While seabird conservation efforts have largely focused on protection from threats at the colony (e.g. reducing disturbance and predation), attention is increasingly being given to implementing protection meas...
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The Relativistic Electron-Proton Telescope (REPT) Instrument on Board the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Spacecraft: Characterization of Earth’s Radiation Belt High-Energy Particle Populations
Particle acceleration and loss in the million electron Volt (MeV) energy range (and above) is the least understood aspect of radiation belt science. In order to measure cleanly and separately both the energeti...
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Science Goals and Overview of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) Suite on NASA’s Van Allen Probes Mission
The Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)-Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) suite contains an innovative complement of particle instruments to ensure the highest quality measurements ever ...
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The Relativistic Electron-Proton Telescope (REPT) Instrument on Board the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Spacecraft: Characterization of Earth’s Radiation Belt High-Energy Particle Populations
Particle acceleration and loss in the million electron Volt (MeV) energy range (and above) is the least understood aspect of radiation belt science. In order to measure cleanly and separately both the energeti...
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Open AccessScience Goals and Overview of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) Suite on NASA’s Van Allen Probes Mission
The Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)-Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) suite contains an innovative complement of particle instruments to ensure the highest quality measurements ever ...
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Effect of Tribofilm Formation on the Dry Sliding Friction and Wear Properties of Magnetron Sputtered TiAlCrYN Coatings
Nano-structured TiAlCrYN coatings, grown by unbalanced magnetron sputtering on various steel substrates, exhibited friction coefficients 0.6–0.8 and wear coefficients 10−16–10−15 m3 N−1 m−1 in dry sliding wear te...
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Avian dark cells
Dark cells (DCs) of mammalian and non-mammalian species help to maintain the homeostasis of the inner ear fluids in vivo. Although the avian cochlea is straight and the mammalian cochlea is coiled, no signifi...
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The release of an ERK-activating factor from cartilage explants in response to trauma
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Loving them and leaving them: wildlife and ecotourism
Tourism is an enormous industry and still one of the fastest growing industrial sectors. In 1950 about 25 million tourists generated US$8 billion. In 1991 about 450 million tourists generated about US$260 bill...
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Subsistence use of wildlife
Our pre-human ancestors presumably hunted as well as gathered. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from whose ancestors the human line diverged some 8 million years ago, are known to hunt cooperatively for red colobus ...
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Sustainability
Sustainable use has been defined as the ‘use of an organism, ecosystem or other renewable resource at a rate within its capacity for renewal’ (IUCN/UNEP/WWF 1991). The word ‘use’ involves everything from captu...
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Managing the Crocodilia: an integrated approach
Crocodilians are the only living members of the Archosauria, an ancient group of reptiles which included the dinosaurs and the progenitors of birds. Existing species, of which there are about 22 (depending on ...
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Birds of prey and modern falconry
Falconry, or hawking, is the taking of quarry in its wild state by using trained birds of prey. Generally regarded as a sport, it seems probable that it began as a way of filling the cooking-pot in the way tha...
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Conservation and captivity
Non-domestic animals are held captive under a very wide range of circumstances, and the distinction between captivity and freedom can become blurred in protected areas, where animals may be provisioned to some...
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Synthesis and conclusions
The question of whether using wildlife is good or bad for conservation can never be answered with an unqualified yes or no. It is not a yes/no sort of question. But to oppose all commercial use of wildlife is ...
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Conservation and use of wildlife in the modern world
Hundreds of millions of people are still heavily dependent on ‘bush foods’ for subsistence but are no longer using them sustainably. In the Indian subcontinent people now live at an average density of 236 peop...
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Conservation, controversies and concerns
Around the world people express very different concerns about wildlife, and the general public may have quite different perceptions from those of professional conservationists. In a survey among the American a...
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Molecular cloning and characterization of a Candida tsukubaensis α-glucosidase gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
The molecular cloning of an α-glucosidase gene isolated from a Candida tsukubaensis (CBS 6389) genomic library in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is reported. The cloned gene is contained within a 6.2 kb Sau3A DNA fragm...
