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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"hermit"”.
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Behavioral Evidence for "Contextual Decision Hierarchies" In the Hermit Crab, Pagurus samuelis
… perception influence the behavioral choices of hermit crabs. I began by reviewing behavioral experiments that have demonstrated the underlying sensory processing of visual, chemical, and tactile information in crustaceans and propose a novel behavior model entitled "Contextual Decision …
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Deep water parapagurid hermit crabs: their distribution, abundance, population structure and associations in the Southern Benguela
… %). Questions are raised about whether these hermits exist along an evolutionary continuum of traditional shell reliance, whereby the species utilise their pseudoshells differently - P. bouvieri appears to show a stronger mutualistic symbiosis with its exclusive pseudoshell species than S. …
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Contributions to the taxonomy of South African hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea) – integrating microCT scanning and barcoding
Hermit crabs form an important component of the marine benthos and globally more than 1,200 species have been described. In the unique bioregion of South Africa, hermit crabs are poorly known, and the last taxonomic revision of the group was that of K. H. Barnard in 1950, who recorded only 32 …
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Hermit Thrush (<em>Catharus guttatus</em>) and Veery (<em>C. fuscescens</em>) Breeding Habitat Associations in Southern Appalachian High-Elevation Forests.
<p>The Hermit Thrush is a new breeding bird in the Southern Appalachian high-elevation mountains, having expanded its range southward over the last few decades. Here it is sympatric with the Veery, a congeneric breeding resident. In order to more fully understand why the range expansion took place …
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Sexual Dimorphism and Behavioral Responses to Conspecific Chemical Cues in Pagurus samuelis
… the major cheliped and carapace lengths of hermit crabs caught off the coast of Southern California and found that male chelipeds were significantly larger relative to their carapace length than female chelipeds. Average male cheliped:carapace ratios were 1.86 while average female …
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Revisión taxonómica de las especies ibéricas de cangrejos ermitaños (DECAPODA: ANOMURA: PAGUROIDEA) y sus relaciones filogenéticas
Traditionally, the study of hermit crabs has been based on the description and comparison of morphological characters that are sometimes difficult to assess, which in many cases has led to difficulties in clearly delimiting species. The morphological complexity of the group (where practically all …
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Admonition and the academy : installation, video, and performance art in Reform Era China
… life in protest, and the concept of the "middle hermit" - a scholar who admonishes official policy subtly and indirectly. The experimental practices of artists after their graduation from elite academies stemmed from the extra-curricular resources made available to them, especially the schools' …
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The Attitudes of Wordsworth Toward Religion
… the church spire, chapel bells, the cross, the hermit, the nun in her cell. These images may edify or inspire the reader with hope or holy fear. But further observation reveals implications of another kind: the pompous mass, idolotry, popish deceit, and romish treachery. Upon examination of the …
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"Sed rudibus et indoctis" : women, orthodoxy, and the Rosebery Rolle Manuscript.
… discusses one manuscript of Richard Rolle, the Hermit of Hampole. It asserts that Rolle's Prose Psalter was compiled specifically for a woman's private devotion and thus sheds light on both the authors and the readers of the growing devotional movement in late medieval England. Furthermore, by …
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Feeling singular: masculinity and desire in the early republic, 1786–1822
… reclusive stonecutter known as “the Pennsylvania Hermit.” In distinct but related ways, each of these marginal figures represents a deviation from early American norms, being too prone to transgress public/private boundaries and too attached to social prohibitions. While each aspired to public …
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Huffing and puffing about /f/-ing everything: language ideologies and phonological borrowing in South Korea
… viewed as citizens of what used to be the “hermit kingdom”, but see themselves as global citizens. As a result, phonemes from foreign languages which used to be markers of immodesty are now finding their way into everyday spoken Korean. By using a foreign phoneme, a speaker of Korean can …
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Great Fool: Six Poems of Ryōkan for Tenor and Orchestra
… an English adaptation of a different poem by the hermit Zen monk Ryōkan Taigu (Japanese, 1758-1831). The music retains the brevity of the poetry as it explores the ideas of impermanence—the nature of any conditioned state to end—and a notion of an emptiness inherent in all things. As any state is …
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Effects of anthropogenic change on animal cognition and emotion
… pollution. Microplastic exposure prevented hermit crabs from approaching and entering a new shell, which was better than their current shell. These results suggest that microplastics disrupt animal cognition (resource assessment and evaluation). Finally, I apply emotion theory to animal …
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Peter Damian and ‘the World’: Asceticism, Reform and Society in Eleventh-Century Italy
… and how he set himself apart from it. As a hermit, prior, cardinal, papal legate and reformer, Damian straddled institutions, and came into contact with powerful lay people and ecclesiastics alike. What must be done is to build a context, through these interactions, for Damian’s rhetoric. …
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Building a family ontology to meet consistency criteria
… Family Ontology will be evaluated using FACT++, HermiT and Pellet reasoners. By augmenting the additional axioms and testing the resulting ontology thoroughly using reasoner tools, the proposed Family Ontology is expected to achieve a consistency of 100%.This research is meaningful and …
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The fate and impacts of microplastics in marine systems
… the mechanisms in which marine animals such as hermit crabs compete for resources. The data and results presented in this thesis provides valuable information on the accumulation of microplastics globally, and their effects on ecosystem functionality and key survival behaviours. Given that …
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Baseline surveys and metal binding proteins as metal pollution indicators
… different organisms (crayfish, Jasus lalandii; hermit crab, Diogenes brevirostris; shrimp, Palaemon pacificus; black mussel, Choromytilus meridionalis and limpet, Patella granularis) kept under identical conditions and it was shown that a much more meaningful interpretation of the results could …
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Influence of reef-associated predators on adjacent soft-sediment communities
… were found in a few large-bodied fauna. The hermit crab Pagurus novizelandiae occurred more frequently near the reef edge, whilst the heart urchin Echinocardium cordatum and bivalve Dosinia subrosea were more abundant further away from the reef. Dosinia subrosea and another bivalve, Myadora …
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Investigating trade-offs in Strength, Skill and Vigour in Pagurus Bernhardus
… or other RHP traits. Using the European hermit crab Pagurus <br/>bernhardus, we investigated the relationship between three RHP traits: <br/>strength, vigour and skill. We identified a potential trade-off between strength <br/>and skill, indicating that individuals might have to choose …
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Dedicated dads: a study on the nesting behaviour of Spondyliosoma emarginatum (Telostei: Sparidae)
… of invertebrate invaders (brittle stars, hermit crabs, sea cucumbers, and sea stars), and chasing away other fish species (sand gobies, Roman, and hottentot) and neighbouring male steentjies. Energy intensive behaviours such as clearing the nest and fanning the eggs remained constant …
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