Female Gryllus bimaculatus have been found to prefer dominant males as mates, and dominant males have shown to have a higher encapsulation rates and higher lytic activities. However, previous studies were conducted with crickets from the laboratory stock culture population that has been in the laboratory for years. Under laboratory conditions, low rates of natural parasites and pathogens may ca...

Based on the extent of control and internal external tendencies of the organisation, various values are created. The highlighted value become dominant in the whole organisation and it can be combined with management activities in knowledge chin model and reinforce them. Despite the importance of values, there is no theoretical model that can expound their critical role on the management activit...

The present study aimed at investigating the impact of a genre-specific strategy-based instructional inter- vention on translation quality, dominant translation and writing activities in the persuasive essays of a group of EFL learners within the perspective of activity theory. The main purpose of the study was to see, taking translation as a sort of writing in its own right, whether the ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between grip and pinch strength and independence in activities of daily living (ADL) in stroke patients. METHODS Medical records of 577 stroke patients from January 2010 to February 2013 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients' grip and pinch strength of both hemiplegic and non-hemiplegic hands and the Korean version of Modified Barthel Index (K-MBI) ...

Increasing numbers of older people relocate into senior housing when their physical performance declines. The change in social environment is known to affect their wellbeing, providing both challenges and opportunities, but more information on the relations between social and physical parameters is required. Thus, we elicited perceptions of the social environment of 81 older people (aged 59-93 ...

carbonates are among the most common soil constituents in arid and semiarid zones. they exhibit many significant differences in their chemical and mineralogical, suite, origin, physical and micromorphological properties and consequently in their activities in soil. the differences cause different properties of calcareous soils. six profiles of aridisols and inceptisols with carbonate accumulati...