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The paper discusses the application of two decision methods, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) and Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE), to the selection of “best” design alternatives across two case studies in the transportation domain. The cases are an airport express for the city of Chicago, and a freight rail line linking Lisbon, Portugal to Madrid, Spain. Through the joint use of MATE a...

Our romantic partners are not only a source of intimacy for us and of genetic information for our offspring—their qualities also signal something about us to the external world. “Mate choice copying” is a form of social learning which allows an individual to learn from the information gathered and mate choices made by others (reviewed in Kavaliers et al., 2017; Anderson, 2018). Having examined ...

objective: this study was conducted to compare marital satisfaction among married nurses with three different mate selection styles. methods: this study is descriptive ex post facto. a total of 222 married nurses were selected using random sampling method from two educational hospitals affiliated to jundishapur university of medical sciences and four private hospitals of ahvaz, iran. they compl...

In eusocial Hymenoptera, females are more tolerant towards nest-mate than towards non-nest-mate females. In solitary Hymenoptera, females are generally aggressive towards any conspecific female. Field observations of the nest biology of Manuelia postica suggested nest-mate recognition. Experiments were performed involving two live interacting females or one live female interacting with a dead f...

BACKGROUND Heritability in mate preferences is assumed by models of sexual selection, and preference evolution may contribute to adaptation to changing environments. However, mate preference is difficult to measure in natural populations as detailed data on mate availability and mate sampling are usually missing. Often the only available information is the ornamentation of the actual mate. The ...

Correlated evolution of mate signals and mate preference may be constrained if selection pressures acting on mate preference differ from those acting on mate signals. In particular, opposing selection pressures may act on mate preference and signals when traits have sexual as well as nonsexual functions. In the butterfly Colias philodice eriphyle, divergent selection on wing color across an ele...

A lo llargo del últimu añu, y pola mor de la pandemia coronavirus, apaecieron términos nuevos, neoloxismos construcciones léxiques que s’introduxeron nel nuestru vocabulariu diariu. Esti trabayu analiza si l’asturianu foi quien a absorber adaptar esti léxicu si, poro, puede considerase una llingua viva actualizada. Pa ello trabáyase cola terminoloxía d’un corpus formáu por testos periodísticos,...

The personality and hormonal correlates of mate poaching (attempting to steal another person's partner away) and of the target of the seducer (the mate poached) were examined in a sample 154 undergraduate university students (91 females; 63 males). Thirteen variables were modeled into two regression equations to predict and profile mate poachers and the mate poached. Findings revealed that (1) ...