In the breeding season f 2018, we found a much larger egg in one nest of Cinereous Tit (Parus cinereus) Zuojia Nature Reserve, Jilin Province, China. The tit pair abandoned their soon after alien hatched, which resulted death foreign chick. Based on DNA identification, this chick was confirmed as Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major), suggesting that woodpecker laid or carried her own eg...

Aim The first line treatment of thyrotoxicosis in our unit is anti-thyroid medication for 2 years – longer if unstable control. Since 2010, we changed the anti-thyroid treatment protocol from block and replacement (B&R) to titration regimen (TIT), after the Cochrane review showed that B&R was associated with similar remission rate but more frequent adverse effects than TIT. We aimed at comparin...

Developments in the gas turbine technology have caused widespread usage of Turbomachines for power generation. With increase demand and a drop availability fuel, turbines with higher efficiencies has become imperative. This is only possible an inlet temperature (TIT) gas. However, limit TIT governed by metallurgical boundary conditions set material used to manufacture blades. Hence, blade cooli...

Energy-constrained computing environments are emerging those years, especially in embedding computing. A game theoretic energy-aware scheduling algorithm for multicore systems is proposed in this paper, namely, GTFTES (Generalized Tit-For-Tat Energy-aware Scheduling). GTFTES is designed to work in a resource-rich environment where resources always compete for tasks. A generalized Tit-for-Tat ba...

Aero gas turbine engines have been using mainly film cooling and convection cooling techniques. For operating at high gas temperature amongst different cooling options the transpiration cooling technique has emerged as the most promising technique to improve the gas turbine cycle performance by allowing higher turbine inlet temperatures. This paper investigates the advantages of transpiration c...

A highly successful strategy for the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma is Contrite Tit For Tat, which bases its decisions on the ‘‘standings’’ of the two players. This strategy is as good as Tit For Tat at invading populations of defectors, and much better at overcoming errors in implementation against players who are also using it. However, it is vulnerable to errors in perception. In this paper, we...

Citation: Biard C, Brischoux F, Meillère A, Michaud B, Nivière M, Ruault S, Vaugoyeau M and Angelier F (2017) Growing in Cities: An Urban Penalty for Wild Birds? A Study of Phenotypic Differences between Urban and Rural Great Tit Chicks (Parus major). Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:79. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00079 Growing in Cities: An Urban Penalty for Wild Birds? A Study of Phenotypic Differences betwe...