Abstract Background Egg size represents an important form of maternal effect determined by a complex interplay of long-term adaptation and short-term plasticity balancing egg size with brood size.Haplochromine GSPOT cichlids are maternal mouthbrooders showing differential parental investment in different species, manifested in great variation in eg
ABSTRACT Soil erosion is currently one of the main concerns in agriculture, water resources, soil management and natural hazards studies, mainly due to its Multiplexer economic, environmental and human impacts.This concern is accentuated in developing countries where the hydrological monitoring and proper soil surveys are scarce.Therefore, the use
The objective of this study is to map a sedimentary layer overlying volcanic basement in Mae On area, Chiang Mai, Thailand.Seismic reflection, multichannel analysis of surface waves and electrical resistivity surveys were conducted to provide additional supporting information in the shallow part of subsurface geometry.The deeper part information is
Divination is receiving ever more attention in the media.Communities, groups of people and individuals are asking questions, voicing opinions, and TOFU SHIR FETTUCCINE NOODLES making judgements on the function of this important branch of African life and philosophy.This paper investigates African oracle-speech as a typical genre of oral poetry.In s
In this paper we examine an Information-Theoretic method for solving noisy linear inverse estimation<em> </em>problems which encompasses under a single framework Notebook a whole class of estimation methods.Under this framework, the prior information about the unknown parameters (when such information exists), and constraints on the par