GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CAREERS AND SALARY FOR AGRIBUSINESS GRADUATES: A CASE STUDY

This research shows that differences exist in careers and salaries based on gender for the graduates of the California Polytechnic State University Agribusiness Department, although the graduates acquire the same education level. This research is based on data that was collected through the use of a survey instrument with a sample size of 1151.Labor and Human Capital,

Recent Common Ancestry of Ebola Zaire Virus Found in a Bat Reservoir

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Anthropogenic pressures coincide with Neotropical biodiversity hotspots in a flagship butterfly group

Aim The biodiversity crisis has highlighted the need to assess and map biodiversity in order to prioritize conservation efforts. Clearwing butterflies (tribe Ithomiini) have been proposed as biological indicators for habitat quality in Neotropical forests, which contain the world's richest biological communities. Here, we provide maps of different facets of Ithomiini diversity across the Neotropics to identify areas of evolutionary and ecological importance for conservation and evaluate their overlap with current anthropogenic threats. Location Neotropics. Methods We ran species distribution models on a data set based on 28,986 georeferenced occurrences representing 388 ithomiine species to generate maps of geographic rarity, taxonomic, phylogenetic and Mullerian mimetic wing pattern diversity. We quantified and mapped the overlap of diversity hotspots with areas threatened by or providing refuge from current anthropogenic pressures. Results The eastern slopes of the Andes formed the primary hotspot of taxonomic, phylogenetic and mimetic diversity, with secondary hotspots in Central America and the Atlantic Forest. Most diversity indices were strongly spatially correlated. Nevertheless, species-poor communities on the Pacific slopes of the Andes also sheltered some of the geographically rarest species. Overall, tropical montane forests that host high species and mimetic diversity as well as rare species and mimicry rings appeared particularly under threat. Main conclusions Remote parts of the Upper Amazon may act as refuges against current anthropogenic pressures for a limited portion of Ithomiini diversity. Furthermore, it is likely that the current threat status may worsen with ongoing climate change and deforestation. In this context, the tropical Andes occupy a crucial position as the primary hotspot for multiple facets of biodiversity for ithomiine butterflies, as they do for angiosperms, tetrapods and other insect taxa. Our results support the role of ithomiine butterflies as a suitable flagship indicator group for Neotropical butterfly diversity and reinforce the position of the tropical Andes as a flagship region for biodiversity conservation in general, and insect and butterfly conservation in particular

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

Théâtre-poésie (limites non-frontières entre deux genres du symbolisme à nos jours)

PARIS3-Bibliotheque Gaston Baty (751052219) / SudocNANTERRE-BU PARIS10 (920502102) / SudocSudocFranceF

L'Âge du Bronze dans le Douaisis

Collection Archaeologia duacensis n° 30.International audienc

Les enclos funéraires de l’âge du Bronze de Lauwin-Planque : analyse synthétique des comblements et données matérielles (département du Nord, France)

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Les enclos funéraires de l’âge du Bronze de Lauwin-Planque : analyse synthétique des comblements et données matérielles (département du Nord, France)

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