Selection for agonistic behavior in wild femaleMus musculus

Response to divergent selection for nesting behavior in Mus musculus.

Replicated bidirectional selection (with control lines) for nest-building behavior in Mus musculus, where nesting scores consisted of the total weight of cotton pulled through the cage lid during four days of testing, yielded an eight-fold difference between high and low lines after 15 generations of selection. The overall realized heritability pooled across lines and replicates was 0.18 +/- 0....

the test for adverse selection in life insurance market: the case of mellat insurance company

انتخاب نامساعد یکی از مشکلات اساسی در صنعت بیمه است. که ابتدا در سال 1960، توسط روتشیلد واستیگلیتز مورد بحث ومطالعه قرار گرفت ازآن موقع تاکنون بسیاری از پژوهشگران مدل های مختلفی را برای تجزیه و تحلیل تقاضا برای صنعت بیمه عمر که تماما ناشی از عدم قطعیت در این صنعت میباشد انجام داده اند .وهدف از آن پیدا کردن شرایطی است که تحت آن شرایط انتخاب یا کنار گذاشتن یک بیمه گزار به نفع و یا زیان شرکت بیمه ...

a framework for identifying and prioritizing factors affecting customers’ online shopping behavior in iran

the purpose of this study is identifying effective factors which make customers shop online in iran and investigating the importance of discovered factors in online customers’ decision. in the identifying phase, to discover the factors affecting online shopping behavior of customers in iran, the derived reference model summarizing antecedents of online shopping proposed by change et al. was us...

The Study of Agonistic Behavior

Agonistic Behavior and Acoustic Communication

Sounds are uttered in agonistic contexts by representatives of 30+ families of fishes but this number mainly reflects the scientific expenditure and less so the actual distribution of soundproducing families. Sounds are emitted in numerous contexts: distressful or disturbancesituations, e.g. being attacked or grabbed by predators, competitive feeding, and competition for space and sometimes mat...