Học liệu mở OER: Recent submissions
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Emotion recognition deficits in eating disorders are explained by co-occurring alexithymia
(The Royal Society, 2015)Previous research has yielded inconsistent findings regarding the ability of individuals with eating disorders (EDs) to recognize facial emotion, making the clinical features of this population hard to determine. This study ... -
Shrinking fish: comparisons of prehistoric and contemporary salmonids indicate decreasing size at age across millennia
(The Royal Society, 2014)A comparison of Upper Palaeolithic and contemporary salmonid vertebrae from the Iberian Peninsula indicates that there has been a significant decrease in the mean body size for a given age among Atlantic salmon and brown ... -
The importance of delineating networks by activity type in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in CedarKey, Florida
(The Royal Society, 2015)Network analysis has proved to be a valuable tool for studying the behavioural patterns of complex social animals. Often such studies either do not distinguish between different behavioural states of the organisms or simply ... -
Males migrate farther than females in a differential migrant: an examination of the fasting endurance hypothesis
(The Royal Society, 2014)Patterns of migration including connectivity between breeding and non-breeding populations and intraspecific variation in the distance travelled are important to study because they can affect individual fitness and population ... -
Reproduction of Pisidium casertanum (Poli, 1791) in Arctic lake
(The Royal Society, 2015)Freshwater invertebrates are able to develop specific ecological adaptations that enable them to successfully inhabit an extreme environment. We investigated the brooding bivalve ofPisidium casertanum in Talatinskoe Lake, ... -
Female signalling tomale song in the domestic canary, serinus canaria
(The Royal Society, 2015)Most studies on sexual selection focus on male characteristics such as male song in songbirds. Yet female vocalizations in songbirds are growing in interest among behavioural and evolutionary biologists because these ... -
City lifemakes females fussy: sex differences in habitat use of temperate bats in urban areas
(The Royal Society, 2014)Urbanization is a major driver of the global loss of biodiversity to mitigate its adverse effects, it is essential to understand what drives species’ patterns of habitat use within the urban matrix. While many animal species ... -
Bone flute descriptions
(The Royal Society, 2015)Punctured extinct cave bear femora were misidentified in southeastern Europe (Hungary/Slovenia) as ‘Palaeolithic boneflutes’ and the ‘oldest Neanderthal instruments’. These are not instruments, nor human made, but products ... -
Endocranial and masticatory muscle volumes in myostatin-deficient mice
(The Royal Society, 2014)Structural and functional trade-offs are integral to the evolution of the mammalian skull and its development. This paper examines the potential for enlargement of the masticatory musculature to limit the size of the ... -
Asymptotic formulae for the Lommel and Bessel functions and their derivatives
(The Royal Society, 2014)We derive new approximate representations of the Lommel functions in terms of the Scorer function and approximate representations of the first derivative of the Lommel functions in terms of the derivative of the Scorer ... -
Ataleoftwo seas: contrasting patterns of population structure in the small-spotted catshark across Europe
(The Royal Society, 2014)Elasmobranchs represent important components of marine ecosystems, but they can be vulnerable to overexploitation. This has driven investigations into the population genetic structure of large-bodied pelagic sharks, but ... -
Competition and cooperationina synchronous bushcricket chorus
(The Royal Society, 2014)Synchronous signalling within choruses of the same species either emerges from cooperation or competition. In our study on the katydid Mecopoda elongata, we aim to identify mechanisms driving evolution towards synchrony. ... -
Low-frequency sound affects active micromechanics in the human inner ear
(The Royal Society, 2014)Noise-induced hearing loss is one of the most common auditory pathologies, resulting from overstimulation of the human cochlea, an exquisitely sensitive micromechanical device. At very low frequencies (less than 250 Hz), ... -
The minimum number of rotations about two axes for constructing an arbitrarily fixed rotation
(The Royal Society, 2014)For any pair of three-dimensional real unit vectorsˆ mandˆ n with |ˆ mT ˆ n|<1 and any rotationU,letNˆ m,ˆ n (U) denote the least value of a positive integerksuch thatUcan be decomposed into a product of krotations about ... -
Simulating droplet motion on virtual leaf surfaces
(The Royal Society, 2015)A curvilinear thin film model is used to simulate the motion of droplets on a virtual leaf surface, with a view to better understand the retention of agricultural sprays on plants. The governing model, adapted from Royet ... -
High atmospheric temperatures and ‘ambient incubation’ drive embryonic development and lead to earlier hatching in a passerine bird
(The Royal Society, 2016)Tropical and subtropical species typically experience relatively high atmospheric temperatures during reproduction, and are subject to climate-related challenges that are largely unexplored, relative to more extensive work ... -
Individual unit and vocal clan level identity cues in spermwhale codas
(The Royal Society, 2016)The ‘social complexity hypothesis’ suggests that complex social structure is a driver of diversity in animal communication systems. Sperm whales have a hierarchically structured society in which the largest affiliative ... -
Wind plays a significant role in the flight altitudes selected by nocturnally migrating birds. At mid-latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, atmospheric conditions are dictated by the polar-front jet stream, whose amplitude increases in the autumn. One consequence for migratory birds is that the region’s prevailing westerly winds become progressively stronger at higher migration altitudes
(The Royal Society, 2015)Seasonal changes in the altitudinal distribution of nocturnallymigrating birds during autumnmigration. -
Are there statistical links between the direction of European weather systems and ENSO, the solar cycle or stratospheric aerosols?
(The Royal Society, 2016)The Hess Brezowsky Großwetterlagen (HBGWL) European weather classification system, accumulated over a long period (more than 130 years), provides a rare opportunity to examine the impact of various factors on regional ... -
Life history of the most complete fossil primate skeleton
(The Royal Society, 2015)Darwiniusis an adapoid primate from the Eocene of Germany, and its only known specimen represents the most complete fossil primate ever found. Its describers hypothesized a close relationship to Anthropoidea, and using a ...
