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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Reference Collection Size and Other Reference Service Factors and Success in Answering Reference Questions
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Diagnóstico do estado de conservação da coleção de referência da Biblioteca Central - UFPB - Dicionários
… the research results performed in the heap of reference collection specially the dictionaries. The main objective was to find out the state of conservation of the dictionarios that are included in the Reference Collection at the Central Libray of UFPB. The research was conducted with …
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MODERN MORPHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES AND THE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND TAXONOMY OF SEPSIDAE (DIPTERA)
… information technology by creating a digital reference collection featuring 140 sepsid species and publishing species descriptions simultaneously featured as entries in a wiki-based platform. Lastly, I show how morphological data-richness and iterative taxonomy can address inadequately …
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Diet, growth and bioenergetics of Northern Pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758) in Box Canyon Reservoir, Pend Oreille River, Washington
… al. (1988) and those developed for the EWU bone reference collection the length of ingested prey items at time of ingestion were estimated. A standard set of regression equations were then used to convert the estimated length of forage fish to estimate their weight at time of …
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Using multivariate statistical procedures to identify ignitable liquid residues in the presence of interferences
… compared to chromatograms of neat liquids in a reference collection. However, the association of the ILR to the neat liquid can be affected by factors such as matrix interferences, evaporation of the ignitable liquid, and thermal degradation. This research aims to develop an objective method for …
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Coarse Stone Tools from the Ness of Brodgar: Investigating the Function and Significance of Orcadian Neolithic Multi-Hollowed Cobbles
… available raw materials to generate a tool wear reference collection. Each of the artefacts in the assemblage was analysed for wear through a comparison with the experimental tools utilising macro photography, photogrammetry, GIS, and microscopy. A spatial, archaeological context and temporal …
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Exploring the breeding diet of the Black Sparrowhawk (Accipiter Melanoleucus) on the Cape Peninsula
… where possible through the use of a museum reference collection. In both years 85.9% of the individual remains were those of Columbidae, which corresponds with the only other diet study on Black Sparrowhawks. Redeyed Doves were the most common prey species, accounting for around 35% of the …
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Key To Microscopic Fragments of Plant Tissue in Prairie Dog Stomachs and Food Habits of Prairie Dogs in South Dakota
The purpose of this study was to (1) develop a reference collection and construct a key of plants occurring on prairie dog towns in southwest South Dakota; (2) determine plant species eaten by prairie dogs by analyzing stomach and pellet samples; and (3) relate the availability of plant species and …
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Genomic diversity and genomic typing of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
… 21 S. Typhimurium genomes from Salmonella reference collection A (SARA) were sequenced. Together with 47 publicly available S. Typhimurium genomes to define S. Typhimurium core genes (STCG). The STCG consist of 3,846 genes, a set that is much larger than that of the 2,882 Salmonella core …
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In the human past, is the perennial consumption of starch a deep or shallow phenomenon?
… least the 55 ky span of the hearths sampled. The collection and analysis of these data involved an innovative extension of method to overcome difficult preservation conditions. The analysis also benefited from the creation of a regional parenchyma modern reference collection and co-operation with …
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A reconstruction of the mid-to late Pleistocene plant community along the southwestern coast of South Africa using phytolith evidence
… case of EFT, both sites have produced extensive collections of artefacts and faunal remains. Analyses of the latter have provided the broad environmental contexts for mid-Pleistocene human occupation along this coast. Recently, research into landscape use by mid-Pleistocene human populations at …
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Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriophages Targeting Uropathogenic E. coli
… a panel of 11 UPEC strains form the E. coli reference collection (ECOR). These lytic phages were characterized phenotypically using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) using negative staining and genotypically using restriction enzyme HaeIII. In total, 41 phages that were lytic against …
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Origini e diffusione dell’agricoltura in Sardegna: studio dei resti vegetali della preistoria
… and identified mainly with the help of a reference collection. Atlas of seed identification as well of specialized bibliography also were used. In addition,morphocolorimetric analyses were performed through image analyses to establish parameters for identification. Data obtained through …
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Agriculture in Tongan Prehistory: An Archaeobotanical Perspective
… the construction of a comprehensive comparative collection for macrobotanical (vegetative storage and fruit parenchyma and endocarp), and microbotanical (starch) components of economic and supplementary plant taxa from Tonga. As part of this, a study of the morphological attributes of starch and …
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Agriculture in Tongan Prehistory: An Archaeobotanical Perspective
… the construction of a comprehensive comparative collection for macrobotanical (vegetative storage and fruit parenchyma and endocarp), and microbotanical (starch) components of economic and supplementary plant taxa from Tonga. As part of this, a study of the morphological attributes of starch and …
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Sex and ancestry estimation methods in modern Filipino crania (Mga paraang pagsusuri ng kasarian at lahi mula sa bungo ng mga kasalukuyang Pilipino)
… programs and facilities, and large skeletal reference collections and databases that characterize these regions. Relative to these areas and the populations studied therein, East and Southeast Asia have received less scholarly attention. This is surprising given that the diversity found in …
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Taxonomy, phylogeny and resource use of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Microgastrinae), genus highly diversified in the Neotropics
… images merging different focus positions. The reference collection for this study comprises a total of 16,663 specimens, of which 13,540 are preserved in 100% ethanol and 3,123 are point mounted. Most of the species described (91 spp.) are completely gregarious while 28 are exclusively …
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Distinguishing homicides and suicides in firearm fatalities: the role of skeletal trauma analysis
… of fire. The William M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and the Antioquia Modern Skeletal Reference Collection provided a total sample of 15 suicide and 19 homicide cases for this analysis. This research found that localized entry sites to the front and right sides of the head and to the chest …
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The Compilation of a British Lowland Heathland and Agricultural Grassland Phytolith Reference Database and its application at the archaeological site of Wytch Farm, Poole Harbour, Dorset
… was to compile the photographic phytolith reference database for comparative purposes and then apply the database and additional proxies as an analytical tool on a Late Anglo-Saxon archaeological site, Wytch Farm. The site investigated at Wytch Farm is a small promontory jutting out into …
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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments and Middle-Late Stone Age habitat preferences in the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin, Kenya: phytolith-based evidence from the site of Prospect Farm
… reconstructions were supported by published reference material and a new modern reference collection for the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin. For this new reference set, phytoliths were extracted from little-studied non-grass plants (mainly ligneous and herbaceous dicotyledons [n = 87]) identified as …
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