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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Monarch"”.
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Theodoret of Cyrus and the ideal monarch
… to offer a veiled criticism of the reigning monarch, Theodosius the Younger. Theodoret offered King David as an exemplar of the ideal Christian monarch for all monarchs, especially Theodosius, to follow. A brief survey of the historical situation within which Theodoret found himself reveals a …
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Economic Aspects of Crop Pest Management and Monarch Conservation
… to grow milkweed on their non-cropland for Monarch butterfly conservation for various remuneration rates. I also approximate intrinsic motivation of farmers from their actual conservation data using reverse regression, distance discriminant analysis and control functions to test for …
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Selection of Overwintering Microclimate by Migratory Western Monarch Butterflies
… at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Western monarch butterflies migrate seasonally to overwinter in groves at geographically predictable locations along the California coast. To date, overwintering habitat selection by western monarch butterflies has been studied assuming that habitat …
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The butterfly clock : illuminating the molecular mysteries of monarch migration
Each fall, the entire monarch butterfly population of the Eastern United States and Canada funnels into a handful of oyamel pine groves in Michoacan, Mexico, to weather the winter months. Each spring, the butterflies mate and fly north to repopulate the continent in short generational bursts. The …
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A Re-examination of Reproductive Arrest in the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus.
Migratory and overwintering monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, are observed in a non-reproductive state classified as either reproductive diapause or oligopause. The stimuli that lead to this reproductive condition have been characterized as changes in photoperiod, declining host plant …
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Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) Tree Preference and Intersite Movement at California Overwintering Sites
<p>Managing Monarch butterfly overwintering groves: making room among the eucalyptus</p> <p>Proper management and conservation of the coastal California overwintering sites used by western Monarch butterflies <em>(Danaus plexippus </em>L.) is critical for continued use of these sites by monarchs. …
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Landscape and Mechanistic Approaches to Describing Milkweed Habitat and Drought Tolerance and the Implications for Western Monarch Butterflies
… These species are host plants for the declining monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). Utilizing our model, we quantified milkweed cover and isolated relationships between milkweed area and monarch presence. Additionally, we theorized that maternal effects could play an important role in …
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Butterfly / urbanism
The charismatic Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is the most iconic migratory butterfly in North America. It is also a susceptible keystone species because of the monotonous host plant on which its larvae depend—namely, milkweed. In fact, the loss of breeding habitat in the US, due to the use …
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Ein Ansatz zur semantik-basierten Anfragerelaxation für hierarchische Strukturen
… für Gebäude im Allgemeinen, wurden im Rahmen des MonArch- rojektes verschiedene Methoden zur digitalen Speicherung von Informationen über Monumentalbauten erforscht. Das daraus entstandene MonArch-System ist für die Dokumentation von Monumentalbauten verwendbar und speichert das digitale Modell …
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Population processes and patterns across scales
… observable patterns in three separate studies: monarch butterfly population dynamics in eastern United States, microbiota population dynamics in fly gut, and mating strategy dynamics in hybridizing species pairs. First, the dissertation tests whether a continental population decline of the …
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From Paris o Persia: Two Worlds Juxtaposed by the Journey fo the "Morgan Picture Bible"
… the important events in the reign of each monarch, compares them as leaders and discusses the artistic contexts of the two royal courts, concentrating on manuscript illumination. Reasons why the Muslim monarch might have been particularly intrigued with the medieval Christian manuscript are …
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‘Knot of Love and Concord’: Loyalty in the Life of Mary I
… judgement – in other words, a poor politician, monarch and head of state. However, this narrative has been significantly revised in the last two decades and scholarship now considers the challenges Mary overcame to become the first queen regnant of England. Attentiveness to gender has …
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The Effect of Butterfly Inspired Scales on Wing Tip Vortex Development
… solutions, focusing on insects such as the Monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus) since it performs the longest known butterfly flight migration. This experiment focuses on the scale patterning found on the wing tips, where scales are three times the size of the traditional scales that coat …
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"Invidiam viam aut faciam": "I will find a way or make one" The poetic practice of political counsel in the courts of Elizabeth I and James I
… Mary Wroth---with a history of service to Tudor monarchs, and one non-aristocratic writer, Aemilia Lanyer, who claimed to be a poetical descendant of a Sidney, responded to the efforts of Elizabeth I and James I to restrict the power of the aristocracy by claiming a right to offer counsel to …
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Henry VII : a study of visual display in life and death
… he is often regarded as a bland and avaricious monarch, who 'dwelleth more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive'. The aim of this research is to demonstrate that Henry was not a colourless king and that he was highly aware of the power of visual display, with an astute …
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Competing to succeed: Monarchy and succession in English history plays and tracts, 1559-1607
… the manifold problems that plague hereditary monarchy during the Tudor reign. Despite the Elizabethan law outlawing any discussion of Elizabeth’s successors, the inflammatory topic was repeatedly addressed implicitly and explicitly. Verse narratives like William Baldwin’s Mirror for …
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The Labor of Writing in the Pastoral Genre: Philip Sidney's Arcadia through John Milton's Paradise Lost
… of obligation and political dependence on the monarch. Thus, the Renaissance English pastoral can be read as a cultural form that corresponds to agrarian capitalism and a moment of release of land and natural resources from their embeddedness within local communal formations before they are …
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Towards Storing 3D Model Graphs in Relational Databases
… Information Modeling (BIM) data into the MonArch system, we propose a solution that transforms the BIM data into a property graph and stores this graph in the database system. We present a novel approach to efficiently store property graph data in a relational database management system …
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