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How feedback about leadership potential impacts ambition, organizational commitment, and performance
(Elsevier, 2018-06-28)In the present research we report results from two experimental studies that examine how feedback about leadership potential impacts leadership ambition, organizational commitment, and performance. Study 1 used an experimental ... -
Addressing gender inequality: Stumbling blocks and roads ahead
(SAGE Publications, 2018-07-19)Despite many positive changes in terms of gender equality in recent decades, women remain underrepresented in positions of power and prestige, and continue to shoulder disproportionate amounts of unpaid domestic labor. ... -
Molecular symmetry-constrained systematic search approach to structure solution of the coiled-coil SRGAP2 F-BARx domain.
(International Union of Crystallography, 2016-10)SRGAP2 (Slit-Robo GTPase-activating protein 2) is a cytoplasmic protein found to be involved in neuronal branching, restriction of neuronal migration and restriction of the length and density of dendritic postsynaptic ... -
The effects of marine eukaryote evolution on phosphorus, carbon and oxygen cycling across the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition
(Portland Press, 2018-06-29)A ‘Neoproterozoic oxygenation event’ is widely invoked as a causal factor in animal evolution, and often attributed to abiotic causes such as post-glacial pulses of phosphorus weathering. However, recent evidence suggests ... -
Early Palaeozoic ocean anoxia and global warming driven by the evolution of shallow burrowing.
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018-07-02)The evolution of burrowing animals forms a defining event in the history of the Earth. It has been hypothesised that the expansion of seafloor burrowing during the Palaeozoic altered the biogeochemistry of the oceans and ... -
Crystal structure of the type IV secretion system component CagX from Helicobacter pylori.
(International Union of Crystallography, 2017-02-28)Helicobacter pylori, a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen prevalent in the human population, is the causative agent of severe gastric diseases. An H. pylori type IV secretion (T4S) system encoded by the cytotoxin-associated ... -
A single factor explanation for associative learning performance on colour discrimination problems in Common Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus)
(Elsevier, 2018-07-17)It remains unclear whether performance of non-human animals on cognitive test batteries can be explained by domain general cognitive processes, as is found in humans. The persistence of this dispute is likely to stem from ... -
The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis
(Royal Society, The, 2018)Behavioural and cognitive processes play important roles in mediating an individual's interactions with its environment. Yet, while there is a vast literature on repeatable individual differences in behaviour, relatively ... -
Intra-individual variation in performance on novel variants of similar tasks influences single factor explanations of general cognitive processes
(Royal Society, The, 2018-07-11)Intra-individual variation in performance within and across cognitive domains may confound interpretations of both domain general (‘g’) and domain specific abilities. Such variation is rarely considered in animal test ... -
The dominant role of visual motion cues in bumblebee flight control revealed through virtual reality.
(Frontiers Media, 2018)Flying bees make extensive use of optic flow: the apparent motion in the visual scene generated by their own movement. Much of what is known about bees' visually-guided flight comes from experiments employing real physical ... -
Changing storminess and global capture fisheries
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018-06-25)Climate change-driven alterations in storminess pose a signifcant threat to global capture fsheries. Understanding how storms interact with fshery social-ecological systems can inform adaptive action and help to reduce ... -
An Immune-Responsive Cytoskeletal-Plasma Membrane Feedback Loop in Plants.
(Elsevier, 2018-06-21)Cell wall appositions (CWAs) are produced reactively by the plant immune system to arrest microbial invasion through the local inversion of plant cell growth. This process requires the controlled invagination of the plasma ... -
Ocean acidification increases copper toxicity to the early life history stages of the polychaete Arenicola marina in artificial seawater.
(American Chemical Society, 2014-07-17)The speciation and therefore bioavailability of the common pollutant copper is predicted to increase within the pH range anticipated under near-future ocean acidification (OA), hence the potential exists for copper toxicity ... -
Diagramming
(Routledge, 2018-07-06)In this exchange, artist Helen Scalway and geographer Gail Davies, reflect on collaborative work, which has been running in different intensities from 2010 to today . They discuss diagramming as a form of spatial ethnographic ... -
Measuring the complexity of social associations using mixture models
(Springer Verlag, 2018-07-11)We propose a method for examining and measuring the complexity of animal social networks that are characterized using association indices. The method focusses on the diversity of types of dyadic relationship within the ... -
The relationship between response consistency in picture naming and storage impairment in people with semantic variant Primary Progressive Aphasia
(American Psychological Association, 2018)Objective. The progressive loss of stored knowledge about word meanings in semantic variant Primary Progressive Aphasia (svPPA) has been attributed to an amodal “storage” deficit of the semantic system. Performance ... -
Conflict between Dolphins and a Data-Scarce Fishery of the European Union
(Springer Verlag, 2018-03-27)Fisheries depredation by marine mammals is an economic concern worldwide. We combined questionnaires, acoustic monitoring, and participatory experiments to investigate the occurrence of bottlenose dolphins in the fisheries ... -
Analyses of ovarian activity reveal repeated evolution of post-reproductive lifespans in toothed whales
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018-07-17)In most species the reproductive system ages at the same rate as somatic tissue and individuals continue reproducing until death. However, females of three species – humans, killer whales and short-finned pilot whales ... -
Smart city as anti-planning in the UK
(SAGE Publications, 2018-07-13)Critical commentaries have often treated the smart city as a potentially problematic ‘top down’ tendency within policy-making and urban planning, which appears to serve the interests of already powerful corporate and ... -
Rapid antagonistic coevolution in an emerging pathogen and its vertebrate host
(Elsevier (Cell Press), 2018)Host-pathogen coevolution is assumed to play a key role in eco-evolutionary processes, including epidemiological dynamics and the evolution of sexual reproduction [1-4]. Despite this, direct evidence for host-pathogen ...