8,311 research outputs found
16th Graduate Meeting of Evolutionary Biology of the DZG [Abstractband]
No full textCaspers B, Franzke A, Krause ET, eds. 16th Graduate Meeting of Evolutionary Biology of the DZG [Abstractband]. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University; 2011.Abstract volume including the abstracts of talks and posters held at 16th Graduate Meeting of Evolutionary Biology of the DZG, Bielefeld University, 4.- 6. March 2011, ed. by Barbara A. Caspers, Alexandra Franzke, E. Tobias Kraus
Barbara James
No full textDate:1943Barbara was born in Holdredge, Nebraska in the United States of America in 1943. In 1960 she arrived in Darwin working in a variety of occupations such as a journalist, historian, author, activist, advocate and editor. Barbara wrote 13 books including "No Man's Land" which explored the contributions of women in the Northern Territory. She also received a number of awards including 2001 NT Heritage Award, the 2000 NT Literary Essay Awards and the Chief Minister's Women's Achievement Award in 1999.JournalistHistorianAuthorActivistEditorAmerica
Barbara Ras - Sowell Conference 2017
Full text linkBarbara Ras, San Antonio, Poet, author of "Bite Every Sorrow" and "The Last Skin
Impact of kin odour on reproduction in zebra finches
No full textt Although it has long been disregarded, the accumulating evidence suggests that birds use chemical cues for communication. However, the impact of olfaction on avian mate choice and its potential function in inbreeding avoidance remain unknown. We compared the mate choice and reproductive behaviour between females experimentally deprived of their sense of smell and intact control females. Each female was allowed to mate with two unfamiliar males, an unrelated male and a full brother. If olfactory cues are involved in kin recognition and/or mate choice, we expect the smelling females to reproduce with the unrelated males and the anosmic females to mate randomly with respect to relatedness. The paternity analysis revealed that the anosmic females reproduced randomly with respect to relatedness. Contrary to our expectations, the females with an intact olfactory mucosa demonstrated a decrease in reproduction; they produced significantly fewer eggs than the anosmic females, and the chicks in only one of the cages reached independence. Thus, the female ’ s ability to smell in the presence of the unfamiliar brother had the unexpected effect of impairing the reproductive behaviour of the females. This is the first study to report directly the critical role of olfactory signals in reproduction and its potential function in preventing maladaptive breeding attempts with kin in female songbirds
Exclusive interview with author Barbara Kingsolver
Full text linkExclusive interview with author Barbara Kingsolver for her 2018 novel *Unsheltered
Olfactory Communication via Microbiota: What Is Known in Birds?
No full textMaraci Ö, Engel K, Caspers B. Olfactory Communication via Microbiota: What Is Known in Birds? Genes. 2018;9(8): 387
Dataset for publication: Post‐war architecture and urban planning as means of reinventing Opole’s past and identity
No full textThe collection includes files related to the publication: Barbara Szczepańska, Post‐War Architecture and Urban Planning as Means of Reinventing Opole’s Past and Identity, „Urban Planning”, Vol 8, No 1 (2023): Bombed Cities: Legacies of Post-War Planning on the Contemporary Urban and Social Fabric, pp. 266-278, https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v8i1.6079. The collection includes figures used in the publication:Opole_plan A plan of Opole, with areas of Ostrówek (left), Market Square (center) and Central Square (right) highlighted in red. Originally published in: "Guidebook to the city of Opole" ("Przewodnik po mieście Opolu", Opole: Księgarnia Opolska, 1948, https://polona.pl/preview/2f383a4a-5e9e-444d-9e94-366b8ac8610d). Author: Z. Streer. Licence: CC0Opole_Monument to the Opole Silesian Fighters for Freedom A photograph depicting Monument to the Opole Silesian Fighters for Freedom (Pomnik Bojownikom o Wolność Śląska Opolskiego) in Opole. Author: Barbara Szczepańska. Licence: CC0Opole_monument of Kazimierz I Opolczyk A photograph depicting the monument of Kazimierz I Opolczyk in the Market Square in Opole. Author: Barbara Szczepańska. Licence: CC0Opole_Market Square_eastern frontage A photograph depicting eastern frontage of the Market Square in Opole. Author: Barbara Szczepańska. Licence: CC0Opole_Market Square_eastern frontage_before 1945 A photograph depicting eastern frontage of the Market Square in Opole before 1945. Originally published on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Market_Square_in_Opole,_eastern_frontage.jpg. Author: unknown. Licence: CC0Opole_monument of Frederick the Great A photograph depicting monument of Frederick the Great in Opole, before 1945. Originally published on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opole_Oppeln_Denkmal_Friedrich_der_Große.jpg. Author: unknown. Licence: CC0</ul
Sex-specific differences in preen gland size of Zebra Finches during the course of breeding
No full textGolüke S, Caspers B. Sex-specific differences in preen gland size of Zebra Finches during the course of breeding. The Auk. 2017;134(4):821-831
'A date with Barbara': paracosms of the self in biographies of Barbara Newhall Follett
No full textIn 1927, 13-year-old Barbara Newhall Follett published her first book, the critically acclaimed novel, The House Without Windows and Eepersip's Life There.
Twelve years later, on December 7, 1939, 25-year-old Barbara quarrelled with her husband and left her apartment in Boston with $30 in her pocket, and a notebook. She was never seen again.
The House Without Windows is set in a paracosm (Farksolia) she invented, and ends with the metamorphosis of the titular character into a 'fairy-a wood nymph … invisible for ever to all mortals, save those few who have minds to believe, eyes to see'.
In Barbara's (auto)biography, The Unconscious Autobiography of a Child Genius (1966), written by Harold Grier McCurdy 'in collaboration with Helen Follett' (Barbara's mother), the authors wonder: 'Can we be far wrong in substituting Barbara's name for Eepersip's in the closing scenes of [House Without Windows]?
In this paper, I grapple with the formal and ethical challenges of writing about Barbara Newhall Follett, and the ways her family and others have approached the problem of writing her unresolved life story: a child raised and educated in solitude, a celebrated 'natural' child author, a young woman whose disappearance remains unsolved. The paper will explore the ways in which adults write the stories of children's lives, as nostalgia and fable, as fairytale and paracosmic narrative, and the ways in which Barbara's biographers have, consciously and unconsciously, created biographical concordances, or paracosms of the self, in seeking to make meaning of her life's story
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