In species with discrete morphs exhibiting alternative behavioral strategies, individuals may vary their aggressive behavior in competitive encounters according to the phenotype of their opponent. Such aggression bias has been documented in multiple polymorphic species evolving under negative frequency-dependent selection, but it has not been well-studied under other selection regimes. We inves...

Life history trade-offs have often been assumed to be the consequence of restrictions in the availability of critical resources such as energy and nutrients, which necessitate the differential allocation of resources to costly traits. Here, we examined endocrine (testosterone) and health (parasite burdens) parameters in territorial and non-territorial New Zealand fur seal males. We documented i...

This article examines the changing relationship between global cities and territorial states in contemporary Europe, and outlines some of its implications for the geography of world capitalism in the late twentieth century. Most accounts of global cities are based upon a ‘zero-sum’ conception of spatial scale that leads to an emphasis on the declining power of the territorial state: as the glob...

Territory formation is ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom. At the individual level, various behaviours attempt to exclude conspecifics from regions of space. At the population level, animals often segregate into distinct territorial areas. Consequently, it should be possible to derive territorial patterns from the underlying behavioural processes of animal movements and interactions. Such...

Nowadays, given different definitions and conceptions on development, territorial planning lends to for various economic, social and geographical aspects, however its defensive and security perspectives have been taken into account to less extent. The present research is aimed to specify passive defense legal requirements in Territorial planning through outlining the most important rules on pas...

Various models for the nuclear architecture in interphase cell nuclei have been presented, proposing a territorial or a non-territorial organization of chromosomes. To better understand the correlation between nuclear architecture and the formation of chromosomal aberrations, we applied computer simulations to model the extent of radiation induced chromosome damage under certain geometrical con...

Territorial restrictions long have been the subject of intense policy debate. The central issue in this debate has been whether such distribution arrangements are deployed tor efficiency or anticompetitive purposes. The authors add to the debate by broadening the existing conceptualization ot business efficiency and providing evidence of the importance of efficiency considerations in the decisi...

This paper deals with the following terms: territorial cohesion, territorial cooperation, convergence and local development. Through a comparative analysis of the concepts mentioned above, we have noticed that regional policy aims precisely the realization of economic convergence, territorial cohesion, the development of localities and last but not least the economic development of European ter...

NOT all-and perhaps very few-of those who have joined the Army Emergency Reserve or the Territorial Army are aware of the long train of events which has gone to make these forces what they are today. Each has a long and honourable history and before coming to a description of their medical services it is desirable to know something of their evolution. In brief, then, the Army Emergency Reserve ...

Recent literature analyses the role of territorial specificities, as the core of territorial rural development strategies based on differentiation. Unfortunately, the proliferation of quality assurance schemes is provoking a “labyrinth of labels” which diffuses the local efforts for capitalizing rural specificities. A second-generation of labels is currently being developed to simplify the terr...