Estuaries have experienced significant changes due to global climate change and human perturbations since the last century. However, anthropogenic influence on burial of sedimentary organic carbon (OC) in estuaries is still not understood well yet. Here, a 3-meter sediment core was taken from Pearl River Estuary (PRE) China. Depth profiles both bulk OC lignin biomarker data indicated three stag...

—Most lizard species feed on small arthropods, and although some are omnivorous, only a few species are strict herbivores. We studied the diet of Dicrodon guttulatum, a teiid lizard endemic to the arid coastal deserts and dry forests of northern Peru. Herbivory by this lizard has been identified as a potential limiting factor in the regeneration of plant communities in these dry ecosystems. We ...

Isabelle Olivieri passed away on Saturday 10 December at 4 a.m. She passed away quietly after having fought not only with an admirable courage against her cancer but also against a paraneoplastic syndrome, which heavily handicapped her for the last years of her life. Isabelle would have passed 60 years in March 2017. She entered the Agronomic College (AgroParisTech) in Paris in 1977, specialize...

[...] Anyone capable of glimpsing the changes we have lived through in our own lives can see that Freudianism, however misunderstood it has been and however nebulous its consequences have been, constitutes an intangible but radical revolution. There is no need to go seeking witnesses to the fact: everything that concerns not just the human sciences, but the destiny of man, politics, metaphysics...

We integrate two prominent models of social perception dimensionality. In three studies we demonstrate how the well-established Semantic Differential (Osgood et al., 1957) dimensions, evaluation and potency, relate to the Stereotype Content Model (Fiske et al., 2002) dimensions, warmth and competence. Specifically, using a correlational design (Study 1) and experimental designs (Studies 2 & 3),...

When Olaf Breidbach took over the directorate of the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus on 1 April 1995, the philosopher and neurobiologist officially commenced his career as an historian of science. For almost twenty years he held the chair of History of Science in the Biological-Pharmaceutical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Science and Technol...