In the cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wren, helpers have negligible effect on breeding success. So why help? The answer is hidden in the size of the eggs.

This paper describes the implementation of an automatically generated virtual storyteller from fairy tale texts which were previously annotated for emotion. In order to gain insight into the effectiveness of our virtual storyteller we recorded face, body and voice of an amateur actor and created an actor animation video of one of the fairy tales. We also got the actor’s annotation of the fairy ...

This study presents a review of scientiometric data about freshwater microcrustaceans (Copepoda, Ostracoda, Branchiopoda: Cladocera, Anostraca, Notostraca and Conchostraca) in Brazil from 1990-2014. This review is based on 179 papers published across four databases, using the following keywords in the search: microcrustaceans, Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Calanoida, Harpacticoida, Ergasilidae, Daphnii...

Crustaceans have diversified sexual systems, incorporating various reproductive modalities such as gonochorism and a wide variety of hermaphroditism. In particular, the coral reef- dwelling caridean shrimps, living in symbiosis with other marine invertebrates, developed unusual systems that given origin to range social including highly advanced eusociality. Protandric hermaphroditism, common am...

An effective approach to program understanding involves browsing, exploring, and creating views that document software structures at different levels of abstraction. While exploring the myriad of relationships in a multi-million line legacy system, one can easily loose context. One approach to alleviate this problem is to visualize these structures using jsheye techniques. This paper introduces...

This paper aims at excavating the use(s) of mid-nineteenth century English laughter in relation to conception Victorian childhood William Makepeace Thackeray’s rarely studied fairy-tale, The Rose and Ring (1854). Defining cultural coordinates sensibility towards children locating root this its contemporary novelistic discourse, assumes a connection between child as narrative chess-piece her/his...