HARNESSING NATURAL RECOVERY PROCESSES TO IMPROVE RESTORATION OUTCOMES: AN EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF SPONGE-MEDIATED CORAL REEF RESTORATION.

Harnessing natural recovery processes to improve restoration outcomes: an experimental assessment of sponge-mediated coral reef restoration.

BACKGROUND: Restoration is increasingly implemented to reestablish habitat structure and function following physical anthropogenic disturbance, but scientific knowledge of effectiveness of methods lags behind demand for Phyllo guidelines.On coral reefs, recovery is largely dependent on coral reestablishment, and substratum stability is critical to

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Estrogenicity of essential oils is not required to relieve symptoms of urogenital atrophy in breast cancer survivors

Towels Background Urogenital atrophy (UA) is a common treatment-limiting side effect of endocrine therapies.Topical estrogen is effective but systemic absorption may counter aromatase inhibitor efficacy.Numerous complementary approaches are marketed for use in UA without rigorous testing of their estrogenicity.We tested multiple essential oils in c

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Scribal Assimilation as Inter-Textual Allusion

In this essay I Towels examine instances of scribal assimilation in ancient Jewish scripture and identify the literary features that triggered scribal recollections of other texts.I argue that some instances of assimilation can be understood as inter-textual allusion, and should be analyzed as such with reference to their formal features and possib

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Modelling the oil price volatility and macroeconomic variables in South Africa using the symmetric and asymmetric GARCH models

This article employed the ARCH, GARCH and EGARCH models to model the oil price volatility and macroeconomic variables in South Africa for the period 1990Q1 to 2018Q2.The macroeconomic variables used in the Custom Shaped Acrylic Plaque study are GDP, inflation, interest rate and exchange rates.According to ARCH (1) and GARCH (1, 1) models, exchange

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