The influence of social class and reproduction on the body condition of impala Aepyceros melampus and nyala Tragelaphus angasi was investigated using the Kidney Fat Index (KFI). Territorial male impala lost condition during the rut, while the KFls of bachelor impala remained unchanged. By the end of the dry season both territorial and bachelor impala males were in poorer condition. Male nyala h...

Self-determination is widely understood as an anti-imperial norm responsible in significant part for the global break-up of empires. But self-determination norms have been utilized as well to justify Great Power territorial expansion. This essay examines the ways in which self-determination norms have been wielded by the Soviet Union and Russia to justify overriding sovereignty norms, challenge...

In the thematic of relations between transport networks and territorial processes, in particular that of metropolisation, we locate as spatial planners. Thus, we tend to consider transport networks as a tool for territory planning and construction. According to this point of view, this essay lies in an analysis of transport service in a metropolitan region. Applied to the case of Lille metropol...

The article analyses the interdependencies between the development level of the regions’ social sphere and the level of their competitive power. The author traces the correlation between the level of living (living standards) and the level of the territories’ competitive power by the example of international ratings and statistical data regarding the development of the Russian regions. The stud...

The SIT-IN (acronym for Integrated Territorial Information System, in Italian) system integrates a historical database, providing information about the temporal evolution of territorial administrative partitions; the Institute's GIS, providing the cartography of the Italian territory down to the census tract level of detail; a statistical data warehouse, providing spatiotemporal data from a num...

From October each year to the following May, the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) maintains a program for the national surveillance of influenza. This program is supported by a number of laboratories and provincial and territorial epidemiologists who collaborate by exchanging information on cases, laboratory identifications and outbreaks. During the 1994-1995 season these surveillan...

A number of studies have implicated the neurohypophyseal peptides oxytocin and vasopressin in the central mediation of complex social behaviors, including affiliation, parental care and territorial aggression. Research on a monogamous rodent, the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster), suggests that these neuropeptides are also involved in the control of several behaviors associated with monogamy,...

A striking but unexplained pattern in biology is the promiscuous mating behaviour in socially monogamous species. Although females commonly solicit extra-pair copulations, the adaptive reason has remained elusive. We use evolutionary modelling of breeding ecology to show that females benefit because extra-pair paternity incentivizes males to shift focus from a single brood towards the entire ne...