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Plant-life vocabulary as metaphors for post-normal planetary challenges
The ongoing post-normal times face two intertwining imperatives: sustainability and digital technology. Interestingly, the languages that address...
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Physical Activity Across the Life Span: Personality, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behavior
In this chapter, the prevalence of physically activity as well as sedentary behavior across the life span is presented. Empirical findings on the...
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Early Life Nutrition and the Programming of the Phenotype
Early developmental nutrition profoundly influences phenotypic trajectories and affects adult morphology, physiology, behaviour, longevity and...
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Protein length distribution is remarkably uniform across the tree of life
BackgroundIn every living species, the function of a protein depends on its organization of structural domains, and the length of a protein is a...
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Precision nitrogen management in rainfed durum wheat cultivation: exploring synergies and trade-offs via energy analysis, life cycle assessment, and monetization
Fertilization with variable rate technology (VRT) is a pivotal technique of precision agriculture proposed for eco-friendly farming practices. Yet...
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Definition and Classification of Halophytes as an Ecological Group of Plants
The definition of halophytes is manifold. The concept evolved from the broader ecological definition of halophytes to specialize physiological and...
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Two Life Strategies in Copepod Cryptic Species: Coexistence and Displacement
AbstractAmong invasive species there is a special group so named cryptic species for which morphological identification is very difficult. This...
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Looking outside the box: a comparative cross-kingdom view on the cell biology of the three major lineages of eukaryotic multicellular life
Many cell biological facts that can be found in dedicated scientific textbooks are based on findings originally made in humans and/or other mammals,...
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Life Cycle Assessment of Forest-Derived Solid Biofuels: a Systematic Review of the Literature
Life cycle assessments conducted in the last decade on forest-derived solid biofuels contain key insights to assess the environmental impact of such...
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Introduction: Definition of City and Public Spaces
Nowadays most of the world population lives in the cities. This has been the case since the end of the twentieth century. Megacities are usual in...
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The Ontology of Biological Attributes (OBA)—computational traits for the life sciences
Existing phenotype ontologies were originally developed to represent phenotypes that manifest as a character state in relation to a wild-type or...
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Biology of Algae, Lichens and Bryophytes
As a reader of this book you will become familiar with current, up-to-date comprehensive knowledge about all classes of eukaryotic algae, the...
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Emergence of heartbeat frailty in advanced age I: perspectives from life-long EKG recordings in adult mice
The combined influences of sinoatrial nodal (SAN) pacemaker cell automaticity and its response to autonomic input determine the heart’s beating...
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Definition and Concepts of Agroforestry
The term agroforestry was coined in 1977 as part of the early international efforts to initiate research on integrated production systems involving...
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More than Fifty Shades of Epigenetics for the Study of Early in Life Effects in Medicine, Ecology, and Evolution
After being coined by Conrad Waddington in the context of development, today the term epigenetics focuses on the molecular machinery beyond genes....
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Everybody Lies: Deception Levels in Various Domains of Life
The goal of this paper is to establish a hierarchical level of deception which does not apply only to humans and non-human animals, but also to the...
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Evolution of reduced mate harming tendency of males in Drosophila melanogaster populations selected for faster life history
AbstractDetrimental effect of males on female, often termed mate harm, is a hallmark of sexual conflict. Allowed to evolve unchecked, mate harming...
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Waste to Bioenergy Perspective Through Life Cycle Inventory
In India, municipal solid waste (MSW) generation rate is about 62 million tons per year. Approximately 43 million tons (70%) are collected, of which...
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Comprehensive Perspective of Care Design for the Accompaniment of the Person During the Life Journey
The demographic change brought about by increased life expectancy and the decline in the number of births foresees a society with a higher proportion...
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The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
We argue for multiple forms of life realized through multiple different historical pathways. From this perspective, there have been multiple origins...
