G iven that roughly 95% of bird species are classified as 'monogamous' 1 , some might claim that the class Aves is short on mating system diversity. Whatever the group might lack in this respect, however, is offset by rather impressive species differences in the prevalence of covert matings by females. By a recent count 2 , extra-pair fertilization (EPF) rates range from 0 to 76% across avian s...

The Internet is growing very fast and so is communication over the net. Connections between nodes can be established with the help of the nodes' IP addresses. An e cient IP look-up service is running as the Domain Name System. However, the DNS is very speci c and provides only IP address to domain name mapping and vice versa. Additional information for nodes can hardly be kept with the DNS. A s...

Abstract 30 year old male, who had been hit at 90mph whilst on a motorbike sustaining femoral, tibial and right foot open fractures. He underwent an reduction internal fixation (ORIF) of his lateral femoral condyle, retrograde nail, ORIF the tibia. 2 separate free flaps (a chimera scapular/parascapular antero-lateral thigh-ALT) to lower leg, split skin grafting remainder limb. Upon regular post...