Tree hollows are an important habitat resource used by arboreal fauna for nesting and denning. Hollows form when trees mature and are exposed to decay and physical damage. In the absence of excavating fauna, hollow formation can take up to 200 years in Australian temperateEucalyptusforests, making...
Whatever I have in front of me, though, the one thing I don’t have is any idea what the f$&% is actually going to happen once the game gets going. And I’m okay with that. The players might utterly demolish my spider demon before she can even take an action. They might dawdle ...
Animals often respond to small moving features very differently than they do to large moving fields. A new study finds that viewing small spots causes walking fruit flies to stop in their tracks, and identifies the cellular pathway that processes this signal. Animals often respond to small moving...
Resorting to scare tactics.Here are the terms Facebook used when asking for access to face recognition data: “If you keep face recognition turned off, we won’t be able to use this technology if a stranger uses your photo to impersonate you.” Unfortunately, scare tactics are rife in dat...
While trade may be an important driver, we suggest that these ideational factors have also contributed to the surge of Chinese overseas investments. In adopting this argument, we expand earlier theorizations that China's Going Out strategy is primarily informed by either liberalism (i.e., ...
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Introduction Polyomaviruses (PyVs) are small non-enveloped DNA tumor viruses belonging to the Polyomaviridae family. The first two human PyVs, JC and BK PyV, were discovered in 1971 [1,2]. Since then, an additional 11 human PyVs have been uncovered [3–5], including some more prominent...
Article How to Maintain the Sustainable Development of a Business Platform: A Case Study of Pinduoduo Social Commerce Platform in China Wu Zhao 1 , AnQi Wang 1 and Yun Chen 2,* 1 School of Economics and Management, Xidian University, Xi'an 710126, China; zhsxwu@xidian.edu.cn (W.Z.);...
To create a pleasant museum experience, museum planners and managers must pay considerable attention to visitor satisfaction and service quality [5]. The latter has always been regarded as key to gaining a competitive edge in the service industry [6]. However, it is impractical to use the ...
In other words, the roles of drivers and responses are not clearly separated: what started as being a response to a certain driver, may at a certain point affect the driver, therewith becoming a driver itself. Such two-way influences are generally called feedbacks. A general definition of ...