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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Apes"”.
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
This study evaluates correspondences between Andrew Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House,” Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Gate of Angels, finding in their statements of artistic independence grounds for gathering them under the term “modern.” Each self-consciously prioritizes …
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
This study evaluates correspondences between Andrew Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House,” Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Gate of Angels, finding in their statements of artistic independence grounds for gathering them under the term “modern.” Each self-consciously prioritizes …
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Yakety sacs: laryngeal air sac usage in great apes
<p>Except for humans, extant great apes have evolutionarily conserved lateral ventricular air sacs extending from laryngeal saccules. Humans are the only species of Hominidae that lack this anatomical feature attached to the primary vocal apparatus. As we are the only species that produces spoken …
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Chromosomes and spermatozoa of the great apes and man
… Chromosome heteromorphisms in the great apes have been compared to those found in human populations, and most of them affected the distribution or the amount of constitutive heterochromatin and/or brilliantly fluorescent material, a situation comparable to man where such variations have …
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Pictorial Primates: A Search for Iconic Abilities in Great Apes
Pictures and other iconic media are used extensively in psychological experiments on nonhuman primate perception, categorisation, etc. They are also used in everyday interaction with primates, and as pure entertainment. But in what ways do primates understand iconic artefacts? What implications do …
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Reconstructing Soft Tissues of Plio-Pleistocene Hominids using Comparative Anatomy of Modern Humans & Great Apes
… nasal protrusions for all African great apes, modern humans, and by extension all ancestors leading to these clades are also presented. Finally, in chapter 5, general thoughts on some lingering complications and the future of the practice of hominid facial approximation are discussed. The …
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The Nuances of Locomotor Strategies in Suspensory Primates (Apes): Locomotor Costs in Terms of Skeletal Injury
… ecology, and body mass among suspensory apes. Second, to quantify change in compact bone geometry associated with bone fracture and bone remodeling in suspensory apes.</p> <p>To obtain the first goal, fracture frequency, severity, and remodeling are examined in limb bones from skeletons …
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Landscapes of the apes: modelling landscape use of chimpanzees and early hominins across an environmental gradient.
… of primates to adapt to changing landscapes is important. Landscape-scale studies of primate habitat use are, however, scant. Predictive models can provide important tools in investigating primate landscape use. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) face habitat loss throughout their range, but …
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The effects of forest degradation on arboreal apes within Sikundur, the Gunung Leuser Ecosystem, Northern Sumatra.
Tropical forests are being destroyed at a rate of 1.5 acres every second due to human activities, thereby accelerating climate change through impacts on the carbon cycle and causing the extinction of species dependent on these habitats. In the face of such immediate and globally significant issues, …
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Evolution of Nuclear Integrations of the Mitochondrial Genome in Great Apes and their Potential as Molecular Markers
… have revealed high numt prevalence in great apes, but rigorous comparative analyses across taxa have been lacking.</p> <p>The present study aimed to systematically compare the evolutionary dynamics of MCR numts in great apes. Firstly, an inventory numts derived from the region containing the …
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The Ape Ecological Niche: Posture and Hand Use in Gibbons and Macaques and the Influence of Manual Skill on Cognitive Development in Apes and Humans
Apes share a distinct set of morphological and anatomical characteristics that allow us to use our arms and hands in unique ways. Apes also have relatively larger brains with similar sulcal patterning indicating there is a distinctively hominoid brain structure. These features in great apes have …
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Novel proapoptotic p63 isoforms are driven by an endogenous retrovirus in the male germ line of humans and great apes, likely increasing genome stability
TAp63, ein Homolog des Tumorsuppressors p53, hat die Fähigkeit, die weibliche Keimbahn zu beschützen, indem es Oozyten mit schweren DNA-Schäden nach Bestrahlung eliminiert. Obwohl die Expression von TAp63 in männlichen Keimbahnzellen vermutet wird, ist noch unklar, ob TAp63 auch als Wächter der …
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Eurasian Middle and Late Miocene Hominoid Paleobiogeography and the Geographic Origins of the Homininae
The origin and diversification of great apes and humans is among the most researched and debated series of events in the evolutionary history of the Primates. A fundamental part of understanding these events involves reconstructing paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic patterns in the Eurasian …
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The Evolutionary Origins of Autism Associated Genes and Their Role in Great Ape Socio-Communicative Behavior
… same time, all 3 have been investigated in great apes such as bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas. Great apes are the closest relatives to humans on the phylogenetic tree. They are also one of the few animal groups that have complex social communication that share fundamental characteristics with …
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Design and synthesis of ionisable amino-polyester lipid nanoparticles for extrahepatic RNA delivery
… these limitations. Ionisable amino polyesters (APEs) synthesised via ROP and co-formulated with lipids into nanoparticles (APE-LNPs) have demonstrated selective mRNA delivery to non-liver tissues. In the first part of this work, 36 ionisable APEs were synthesised to investigate how polymer …
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Understanding and predicting acute pulmonary exacerbations in adults with cystic fibrosis
… populations within the CF lung may trigger APEs, and whether such changes could function as a bacterial biomarker(s) and be correlated with home monitored data to facilitate APE diagnosis and prompt initiation of treatment. First, I conducted a single-centre, pilot study (TeleCF) of 15 …
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Investigating components of prospective cognition in gibbons (<i>Hylobatidae</i>)
… primates remains contested; however, the large apes have displayed greater proficiency at tasks requiring prospective cognition than monkeys. This thesis investigates components of prospective cognition within the small apes (<i>Hylobatidae</i>). Gibbons represent the only surviving divergence …
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Evidence of Language Prerequisites in Pan: Orofacial-Motor and Breath Control in Chimpanzees and Bonobos
… different groups of a total of forty-three apes (24 chimpanzees and 19 bonobos) were trained to protrude their lower lip and tongue, inhale to retrieve a food item, and exhale to elevate a ball to a certain height in a clear cylinder. Apes underwent 50 OFM trials per condition, and the …
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An Empirical and Theoretical Comparison of the Socio-ecological Behaviors of Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Bonobos (Pan paniscus), and Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla): Social Tolerance and Behavioral Responses to Changes in Food Quality and Distribution
… relationships of each of the three African Great Apes in captivity in order to elucidate similarities and differences in terms of their social tolerance. We hypothesized that bonobos and gorillas would both me more tolerant of conspecifics in close proximity across multiple behavioral contexts …
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Lost and Found in Translation: Cross-Lingual Question Answering with Result Translation
… Our adequacy-oriented automatic post-editors (APEs) use resources from the CLQA context and information from the MT system to automatically detect and correct phrase-level errors in MT at query time, focusing on the errors that are most likely to impact CLQA: deleted or missing content words …
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