Academic Articles & Research Papers

Introduction to conservation genetics

This impressive author team brings the wealth of advances in conservation genetics into the new edition of this introductory text, including new chapters on population genomics and genetic issues in introduced and invasive species. They con...

Introduction to Quantitative Genetics

Falconer, D. S., Introduction to Quantitative Genetics , The Ronald Press Company, New York. 364 pp. $6.00. The author’s aim is, “to provide an introductory textbook of quantitative genetics, with emphasis on general principles rather than ...

Reproduction and the Reduction of Genetics

In this essay I develop a new, unified perspective on genetics, development, and reproduction. I suggest a heuristic use of theory reduction to address an issue of contemporary theoretical importance: the framing of a theory of developmenta...

Forest genetics

Abstract This book, which contains 20 chapters, integrates the varied subdisciplines of genetics and their applications in gene conservation, tree improvement and biotechnology. Topics covered include: genetic variation in natural forests, ...

Genetics : a conceptual approach

Introduction to Genetics Genetics Is Important to Us Individually, to Society, and to the Study of Biology Humans Have Been Using Genetics for Thousands of Years A Few Fundamental Concepts Are Important for the Start of Our Journey into Gen...

The Genetics of Psoriasis

The genetics of psoriasis has been studied with a questionnaire requesting information on presence or absence of the disease in relatives of 698 probands and 104 controls (spouses of probands). A statistically significant familial concentra...

Conservation Genetics

Contributors. Prologue. 1. Introduction: The Scope of Conservation Genetics Part I: Case Histories with a Focus on Particular Taxonomic Groups. 2. Population Structure, Molecular Systematics and Forensic Identification of Whales and Dolphin...

Concepts of Genetics

Part 1 Heredity and the phenotype: cell division - mitosis and meosis Mendalian genetics modification of Mendelian ratios linkage and chromosome mapping in eukaryotes recombination and mapping in bacteria and bacteriophages extensions of ge...

Genetics and Reductionism

With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is t...

Genetics and the Origin of Species

Genetics and the Origin of Species Get access Genetics and the Origin of Species. (3rd Edition). Dobzhansky Th.. 364 pp. Columbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, N. Y.$5.00. AIBS Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 1952, Page 1...

Experimental study on the factors influencing performance and emissions of hydrogen internal combustion engines

Hydrogen internal combustion engines (H2-ICEs) have advantages such as clean combustion and zero carbon emissions, and have become one of the important technical routes for decarbonization in the internal combustion engine industry. In this...

Calidad de las aguas meteóricas en la ciudad de Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brasil

El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la calidad del agua meteórica en la ciudad de Itajubá, ubicado en la parte sur de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Para ello, se realizaron la colecta y análisis de la calidad de las muestras de agua de lluvia d...

Long-term farmland abandonments remarkably increased the phytolith carbon sequestration in soil

Abstract Background Phytolith-occluded organic carbon (PhytOC) is an important mechanism of long-term stable carbon sinks in terrestrial ecosystems. Farmland abandonment is a widespread land use change in the process of urbanization and ind...

Urban Aboriginal Creation Stories and History: contesting the past and the present. The Eleventh Doireann MacDermott Lecture

This paper is based on the 11th annual Doireann MacDermott public lecture presented at the Universitat de Barcelona in November, 2010. It is a critique of discourses and representations in Australian society, and indeed, embedded in all w...

The impact of intelligent technology progress on skill matching in labor market—evidence from China

Through mathematical deduction, this paper reveals the impact of intelligent technology progress on skill matching in labor market. This paper constructs a provincial-level comprehensive index of industrial intelligence from three dimension...

Energy Internet Evaluation Index System under the Zero Carbon Goal

At present, the zero-carbon goal has become the common choice of all the world. Driven by the zero-carbon goal, energy system in China will develop to be cleaner and cleaner. In this situation, Energy Internet has become the future developm...

Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...

Anthropology's Mythology

Anthropological Theory

Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory a...

World Anthropologies: Anthropological Cosmopolitanisms and Cosmopolitics

To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical. Imperial cosmopolitics reproduces the hegemony of th...