poetry is usually the result of poet’s experiences and observations. many of these experiences and findings are not reached through a single sense. to express and transfer such cases, a poet needs to impact different senses of the reader at the same time. one way to do this is through synesthesia. this rhetorical ornament can be achieved by using the word related to a sense about another. thi...

Aging is commonly attributed to age-related changes in oxidative damage due to an increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and a weakened efficacy of enzymatic antioxidants. These age-related changes might therefore modify the use of dietary antioxidants, including carotenoids. As carotenoids are closely associated with the expression of secondary sexual signals, the allocation of ...

Female preference for male ornament is favored by sexual selection. It is not clear whether the preference is limited to male ornament only or it is actually for genes that affect fitness of the upcoming progeny. In mating systems in which males provide direct benefits of fitness to the female or their offspring, the answer seems straightforward  females should prefer to mate with males that a...

Sexually selected traits are expected to evolve to a point where their positive effect on reproductive success is counterbalanced by their negative effect on survival. At the genetic level, such a trade-off implies antagonistic pleiotropy between survival and the expression of sexually selected traits. Yet, the consequences of such a genetic architecture have been largely overlooked in studies ...

In many species, males rely on sexual ornaments to attract females. Females, by contrast, rarely produce ornaments. The glow-worm (Lampyris noctiluca) is an exception where wingless females glow to attract males that fly in search of females. However, little is known about the factors that promote the evolution of female ornaments in a sexual selection context. Here, we investigated if the fema...

Previous observation of spontaneous speech has shown consistent use of pitch accent by speakers to mark the contrastive status of words. To investigate how listeners process accentual prominence marking a contrast, eyemovements were monitored while participants listened to spoken directions and searched for ornaments to decorate holiday trees. Eye movement latencies to the target ornament cells...

Elaborate morphological ornaments can evolve if they increase the reproductive success of the bearer during competition for mates. However, ornament evolution is incredibly rare in females, and the type and intensity of selection required to develop female-specific ornamentation is poorly understood. The main goals of my thesis are to clarify the relationship between the type and intensity of s...

The panels show a set of variations exploring the interpretation of history in the simulation based on a cellular automata algorithm. Cellular automata simulates the essence of growth; the death and birth of cells over some number of generations within a simple two dimensional lattice. The final patterns produced have been of interest to designers for a long time but this research attempts to r...