BENEFITS OF EXTRA BEGGING FAIL TO COMPENSATE FOR IMMUNOLOGICAL COSTS IN SOUTHERN SHRIKE (LANIUS MERIDIONALIS) NESTLINGS.

Benefits of extra begging fail to compensate for immunological costs in southern shrike (Lanius meridionalis) nestlings.

Theoretical models aimed at explaining the evolution of honest, informative begging signals employed by nestling birds to solicit food from SALTED PUMPKIN SEEDS their parents, require that dishonest signalers incur a net viability cost in order to prevent runaway escalation of signal intensity over evolutionary time.Previous attempts to determine s

read more


Adoption and Initial Implementation of a National Integrated Care Programme for Diabetes: A Realist Evaluation

Background: The implementation of models of integrated care for chronic conditions is not well understood.We conducted a realist evaluation to determine how and why the implementation of the National Diabetes Programme in Ireland worked (or not).Methods: Documentary analysis and qualitative interviews with a purposive sample of national stakeholder

read more

Barriers and Challenges of Peace and Dialogue with an Emphasis on Ideas of Imam Khomeini (ra) (With an Emphasis on Nahj Al-Balagha)

Imam Khomeini (ra) is one of the unparalleled and outstanding figures of human history, divinely high ideas of whom can open the ways for human community in all fields.Imam Khomeini (ra) maintained that divine religion is based on nature that has good, God-seeking, peace-seeking and justice-seeking character; it has nothing to do with violence and

read more