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Showing 1 to 20 of 207 for “"Insular"”.
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Predicting biodiversity loss in insular neotropical forest habitat patches
Neotropical forests have experienced high rates of biodiversity loss as a result of burgeoning land-use changes. Habitat conversion into cropland, pastures, and more recently hydroelectric lakes, are leading drivers of forest loss and fragmentation of pristine forests in the world’s most biodiverse …
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Roles of orbitofrontal and insular cortices in processing reward variables
… studies in humans have shown that anterior insular cortex (AIC) is affected by risk in decision situations. However previous studies have not examined neural activity related to risk in AIC. Moreover, damages in OFC have yielded conflicting results, even they showed altered risky choice …
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Taste Learning in Insular Cortex: Plasticity Is Influenced by Experience Type
<p>The gustatory cortex (GC) has long been studied as the main cortical area encoding taste stimuli and likely integrates sensory, visceral, and emotional information to guide taste-related behaviors. However, our understanding of cortical taste coding on a single-cell level has only become clear …
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The Functional Role of the Anterior Insular Cortex in Cognitive Control
… cognitive control network, and the anterior insular cortex (AIC) serves as one of its key structures. However, the functional role of the AIC in cognitive control has not been fully understood. A human lesion study was conducted to examine the necessary function of the AIC in cognitive …
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The insular reception of the Eusebian canon tables: exegesis and iconography
This thesis examines the Insular reception of the Eusebian canon tables before 800 AD. The tables, devised in Caesarea in the early fourth century, represent one of the most successful patristic attempts to demonstrate the harmony of the quadriform Gospel. Their success is reflected in the series' …
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Insular adaptations in the appendicular skeleton of Sicilian and Maltese dwarf elephants
… thesis investigates the evolution of Pleistocene insular proboscideans from the centralwestern Mediterranean (Palaeoloxodon species from Sicily, Malta, Favignana) and a mammoth (Mammuthus lamarmorai) from Sardinia, with a particular emphasis on the anatomy of the limbs. Differences in the …
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Migrações de retorno no contexto insular açoriano: o regresso voluntário à região de origem: a experiência faialense
… estudos com esta abordagem, no contexto insular açoriano, torna este estudo único, revestindo-se da maior relevância para a comunidade científica, para a sociedade em geral e para a comunidade açoriana em particular, o contributo que o mesmo representa para o conhecimento deste fenómeno …
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La ciudad marítima e insular descrita y representada: discursos urbanos en Cádiz y Venecia (siglos XVI y XVII)
… principales el análisis de la ciudad marítima e insular entendida como constructo cultural y como espacio antropizado mediante su conceptualización a través de la escritura en la corografía y en las historias locales y de su representación visual en mapas y vistas, en un marco cronológico que …
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A question of time or a question of theology: a study of the Easter controversy in the insular church
… and computistical differences between the Insular and continental/Roman churches. The Insular Church believed in and strictly adhered to the tradition passed on to them by their "fathers". What were the origins of these traditions and the theology that formed them? To apprehend Easter …
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The Effect Of Spatial Subsidies On The Diet, Density, And Species Richness Of Insular Lizards In The Gulf Of California
I used lizards on islands in the Gulf of California to evaluate the effects of materials moving from onto islands. Materials are transported onto the islands by both tidal action and seabirds. I used the stable isotopes of carbon (¹³C/¹²C) and nitrogen (¹⁵N/¹⁴N) to analyze the diets of Uta …
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The Effects of Gender and Ovarian Steroids on Insular Function and Glucose Homeostasis in The Prepuberal Gonadectomized Male and Female Dog
The effects of sex, estrogen, and progesterone on glucose and insulin parameters were studied. Sixteen male and 16 female dogs were gonadectomized before 6 months of age. Silastic implants containing estrogen were placed subcutaneously in 8 dogs of both sexes to approximate proestrous estrogen …
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Aspects of Verbal Noun Constructions in Medieval Irish and Welsh With Reference to Similar Constructions in Basque
… verbal nouns. Parallel constructions in these Insular Celtic languages are then brought together in order to assess which prepositional verbal noun constructions might have been a feature of Insular Celtic. Data from Basque is compared to the findings for Insular Celtic. The results seek to …
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