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Further studies are warranted to investigate the uneven sex distribution and outcomes of TTS triggered by COVID-19 in an Asian population.In this article, I use the idea of post-patrimonial governance to consider the science education of future scientists. I argue, with Anna Yeatman, that the politics of our time is structured by a contest between two kinds of post-patrimonial contractualism. Data are reported from a study of contemporary Australian scientists to show that some scientists are successfully conducting professional relationships with their publics that are consistent with what Yeatman has called the new contractualism. These approaches contrast with the neopatrimonial contractualism that typifies neoliberal governance and which is prevalent in many societies today. Science educators face a choice to provide accounts of science that acknowledge the work of these scientists and that prepare both future scientists and their future publics for professional relationships of reciprocal respect. I suggest approaches for school science education that are consistent with such a choice.
Mindfulness, positive affect, and compassion may protect against psychological distress but there is lack of understanding about the ways in which these factors are linked to mental health. Network analysis is a statistical method used to investigate complex associations among constructs in a single network and is particularly suitable for this purpose. The aim of this study was to explore how mindfulness facets, affect, and compassion were linked to psychological distress using network analysis.

The sample (
= 400) included equal numbers from general and student populations who completed measures of five mindfulness facets, compassion, positive and negative affect, depression, anxiety, and stress. Network analysis was used to explore the direct associations between these variables.

Compassion was directly related to positive affect, which in turn was strongly and inversely related to depression and positively related to the observing and describing facets of mindfulness. The non-judgment facet of mine toward internal experience while acting with awareness may protect against psychological distress. Applicability of these findings can be examined in experimental studies aiming to prevent distress and enhance psychological well-being.Re-examination under a scanning electron microscope (SEM) of the type material of the species described by Tasch and Volkheimer (1970) and Vallati (1986) was applied, as well as, new materials collected from different localities of the Las Chacritas Member from Cañadón Asfalto Formation (Argentina). GRL0617 Morphological description and new SEM images of the ornamentation pattern revealed features on carapaces that had not been recognized previously. These species are now referred to the family Eosestheriidae as Carapacestheria taschi (Vallati, 1986) and to the family Fushunograptidae as Wolfestheria patagoniensis (Tasch, in Tasch and Volkheimer, 1970). These records increase our knowledge about the Jurassic faunas from Argentina.Abundant and diverse spinicaudatans are important components of the well-known Linglongta phase of the Yanliao Biota from the lower Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation at the village Daxishan of Linglongta, Jianchang County, western Liaoning, north-eastern China. Herein a new spinicaudatan species Linglongtaestheria daxishanensis gen. and sp. nov. is described. It shows distinct carapace ornamentation patterns (1) growth bands near the umbo ornamented with polygonal small-diameter reticulation; (2) growth bands in the middle part of the carapace ornamented with evenly distributed puncta; (3) growth bands in the ventral part of the carapace ornamented with punctate reticulation and radial lirae.Large branchiopods inhabit diverse continental habitats worldwide. Their feeding ecology, nevertheless, remains largely unknown. The few functional morphology studies that have been conducted have mostly focused on adults or larvae, seldom have the two been compared collectively. In this study, we examined the feeding structures in Eulimnadia braueriana Ishikawa, 1895 from nauplius to adult to clarify their feeding mechanisms and then compared them with the other two sympatric branchiopods (Branchinella kugenumaensis and Lynceus biformis) in Siangtian Pond, Taiwan. Naupliar second antennae and mandibles are similar to those of other species, suggesting filter-feeding. The naupliar feeding structures, including the mandibular palp and naupliar process, gradually degenerate during the juvenile stage. Simultaneously, the molar surface, maxillae, and second antennae continue developing, reaching their adult form in later juvenile substages. The molar surface and thoracopod setal morphology are similar to those of other filter-feeding branchiopods, but adults also have scraping setae on the first several thoracopod pairs. Nearly all naupliar primary feeding structures change through development, particularly during the early juvenile substages, whereas late juvenile substages and adult morphology are similar. Eulimnadia braueriana transforms from pelagic filtering nauplii to adults that combine benthic filtering and scraping. Comparisons of molar and thoracopod morphology between coexisting branchiopod species show some similarities and differences in filtering and scraping feeding structures, implying potential foraging resource differentiation among species.One of the most perplexing questions within evolutionary biology is "why are there so many methods of reproduction?" Contemporary theories assume that sexual reproduction should allow long term survival as dispersal and recombination of genetic material provides a population of organisms with the ability to adapt to environmental change. One of the most frustrating aspects of studying the evolution of reproductive systems is that we have not yet been able to utilize information locked within the fossil record to assess breeding system evolution in deep time. While the fossil record provides us with information on an organism's living environment, as well as some aspects of its ecology, the preservation of biological interactions (reproduction, feeding, symbiosis, communication) is exceedingly rare. Using both information from extant taxa uncovered by a plethora of biological and ecological studies and the rich representation of the Spinicaudata (Branchiopoda Crustacea) throughout the fossil record (from the Devonian to today), we address two hypotheses of reproductive evolutionary theory (1) that unisexual species should be short lived and less speciose than their outcrossing counterparts and (2) that androdioecy (mixtures of males and hermaphrodites) is an unstable, transitionary system that should not persist over long periods of time.
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