American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) have become common suburban and urban birds in the last 50 years, using these environments for roosting and breeding. I studied crows in upstate New York from 1989 to 1999, and compared reproductive success, survival, and social behavior of crows in suburban and rural areas. Although both suburban and rural crows maintained permanent territories, suburban ...

Marine protected area (MPA) designs, including large-scale MPAs (LSMPAs; >150,000 km2), mobile (fluid spatiotemporal boundaries), and MPA networks, may offer different benefits to species could enhance protection by encompassing scales of animal movement. We sought understand how well LSMPAs benefit nine highly-mobile marine in the tropics now into future by: 1) evaluating current range overlap...

Borassus flabellifer L. popularly called karpaga viruksham i.e,. “Multipurpose tree” in Tamil culture is an economically significant plant with its vast range of application food and medicine. Especially, the quality produces from female palmyra attracts high economical value which encourages farmers to grow trees more male sex ratio. But Palmyra has a long juvenile period 12-15 years difficult...

PURPOSE The choice of initial anti-epileptic drug (AED) for elderly and younger adult patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy was assessed. METHODS The pattern of initial prescription of AEDs between 2000 and 2013 was retrospectively studied in two community-dwelling cohorts, identified from the case records of Kuopio University Hospital (KUH): elderly subjects (aged 65 or above at the time of...

The North-Eastern Caucasus, which includes the territories of modern Chechen Republic and Dagestan, is one oldest centers manufacturing economy in Old World. development productive forces production relations over several millennia, expressed vivid monuments material culture, starting from Kura-Araxes Eneolithic inevitably led to socio-political evolution society, emergence early forms statehoo...

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*Correspondence: Geoffrey E. Hill, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, 331 Funchess Hall, Auburn, AL 36849-5414, USA e-mail: [email protected] Male eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) have feathers with either structurally based blue coloration or melanin-based chestnut coloration, and they hold territories during the breeding season that they defend vigorously. We tested whether...

Dynamic climatic oscillations of the Pleistocene dramatically changed the distributions of high latitude species. Molecular investigations of a variety of organisms show that processes of postglacial colonization of boreal regions were more complex than initially thought. Phylogeographical and coalescent analyses were conducted on partial sequences of the cytochrome b gene (600 bp) from 64 indi...

Recent advances in archaeological and technological practices methods are enabling studies of urban economic patterns to be seen a new light. These can also push the boundaries for what we conclude from evidence, which at best is full lacunae. Here, focus on evidence Palmyra that gives insight into how begin disentangle ways by Palmyrene society operated with number systems: non-monetary econom...