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University of North Carolina at Wilmington
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About: University of North Carolina at Wilmington is a education organization based out in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3329 authors who have published 6797 publications receiving 186308 citations.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Higher education, Health care, Coral reef
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TL;DR: The results clearly demonstrate that domains are formed in the BSM/Chol/POPC system by a combination of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and Monte Carlo simulations, and indicate that the largest POPC domains contain several thousand lipids.
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TL;DR: The spatial and temporal patterns of mortality of large whales in the Northwest Atlantic are analyzed and cause of death is determined, which can provide managers with direction for modifying regulated measures and can be applied globally to mortality-driven conservation issues.
Abstract: United States and Canadian governments have responded to legal requirements to reduce human- induced whale mortality via vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear by implementing a suite of regulatory actions. We analyzed the spatial and temporal patterns of mortality of large whales in the Northwest Atlantic(23.5 ◦ Nto48.0 ◦ N),1970through2009,inthecontextofmanagementchanges.Weusedamultinomial logistic model fitted by maximum likelihood to detect trends in cause-specific mortalities with time. We compared the number of human-caused mortalities with U.S. federally established levels of potential biological removal (i.e., species-specific sustainable human-caused mortality). From 1970 through 2009, 1762 mortalities (all known) and serious injuries (likely fatal) involved 8 species of large whales. We determined cause of death for 43% of all mortalities; of those, 67% (502) resulted from human interactions. Entanglement in fishing gear was the primary cause of death across all species (n = 323), followed by natural causes (n = 248) and vessel strikes (n = 171). Established sustainable levels of mortality were consistently exceeded in 2 species by up to 650%. Probabilities of entanglement and vessel-strike mortality increased significantly from 1990 through 2009. There was no significant change in the local intensity of all or vessel-strike mortalities before and after 2003, the year after which numerous mitigation efforts were enacted. So far, regulatory efforts have not reduced the lethal effects of human activities to large whales on a population-range basis, although we do not exclude the possibility of success of targeted measures for specific local habitats that were not within the resolution of our analyses. It is unclear how shortfalls in management design or compliance relate to our findings. Analyses such as the one we conducted are crucial in critically evaluating wildlife-management decisions. The results of these analyses can provide managers with direction for modifying regulated measures and can be applied globally to mortality-driven conservation issues.
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TL;DR: Greater satisfaction with treatment at 3 months was a significant predictor of retention at 12 months, indicating the importance of understanding the role satisfaction plays in determining retention, and greater severity of legal problems was associated with shorter retention.
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TL;DR: This paper used a variation of this method to investigate basic information processing mechanisms underlying anger arousal and found that anger words interfered with the performance of high or low trait anger according to the Trait Anger Scale.
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TL;DR: The unbounded number line task is a more pure measure of integer representation than the bounded number linetask, and using these results, a preliminary description of adults’ underlying representation of integers is presented.
Abstract: The number line task is often used to assess children’s and adults’ underlying representations of integers. Traditional bounded number line tasks, however, have limitations that can lead to misinterpretation. Here we present a new task, an unbounded number line task, that overcomes these limitations. In Experiment 1, we show that adults use a biased proportion estimation strategy to complete the traditional bounded number line task. In Experiment 2, we show that adults use a dead-reckoning integer estimation strategy in our unbounded number line task. Participants revealed a positively accelerating numerical bias in both tasks, but showed scalar variance only in the unbounded number line task. We conclude that the unbounded number line task is a more pure measure of integer representation than the bounded number line task, and using these results, we present a preliminary description of adults’ underlying representation of integers.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Henry F. Schaefer | 111 | 1611 | 68695 |
David P. White | 99 | 363 | 44403 |
Christopher J. Cramer | 93 | 565 | 50075 |
Robin D. Rogers | 90 | 432 | 43314 |
Xuemei Chen | 76 | 281 | 24252 |
Thomas C. Baker | 67 | 336 | 17050 |
Yang Song | 66 | 646 | 21184 |
Kevin E. O'Grady | 64 | 316 | 13770 |
Gary L. Miller | 63 | 306 | 13010 |
Randall S. Wells | 62 | 242 | 12142 |
Frank C. Schroeder | 58 | 249 | 9821 |
C. Nathan DeWall | 57 | 177 | 16492 |
Kevin E. O'Shea | 56 | 142 | 10881 |
Joseph R. Pawlik | 55 | 155 | 9290 |
Jerrold Meinwald | 55 | 411 | 11344 |