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We investigate the potential success of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, taking into consideration possible waning immunity and the influence of behavioural parameters. We use a compartmental, population-level ordinary differential equation (ODE) model. We find the effective reproductive value for HPV, Re0, which measures the threshold for infection outbreak in a population that is not ...

The scientific community working in the field of insect pathology is experiencing an increasing academic and industrial interest in the discovery and development of new bioinsecticides as environmentally friendly pest control tools to be integrated, in combination or rotation, with chemicals in pest management programmes. In this scientific context, market data report a 15% annual growth of the...

Does bill pigmentation influence territorial interactions of blackbirds ? Males YES: Resident males spent more time >10m from models with brown bills than from models with yellow or orange bills and a greater proportion of time >2m from orange billed models than from yellow-billed models (Fig. 4). Resident males also displayed more quickly (but not more aggressively) to models presented with or...

THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MACAQUE EXTRASTRIATE VISUAL CORTEX RE1 EXAMINED USING THE PRINCIPLE OF SPATIAL CONTINUITY OF FUNCTION 2 Tyson N. Aflalo and Michael S. A. Graziano 3 Address for all authors: Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544 4 5 Corresponding author: Michael Graziano, Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton 6 University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Phone...

(Orconectes virilis) Mae Kindler and Jenna McCullough University of Minnesota – Itasca Biological Station Animal Behavior – June 29, 2010 Abstract Territoriality in female northern crayfish, Orconectes virilis, was studied through the observation of resident-intruder crayfish pair interactions based on size asymmetry. Resident-intruder pairings were chosen among 18 crayfish, with a total of 51 ...