Parent-offspring conflicts lead the offspring to evolve reliable signals of individual quality, including parasite burden, which may allow parents to adaptively modulate investment in the progeny.Sex-related variation in offspring reproductive value, however, may entail differential investment in sons and daughters.Here, we experimentally manipulat
Prestressing plays a pivotal role in ensuring the tightness and integrity of prestressed concrete containment in nuclear power plants.The prestress loss reduces the compressive stress in concrete resulting from the prestressing strands and increases the risk of containment leakage under severe accident conditions.Therefore, the accurate prediction
Abstract: In Brazil, leprosy is a widespread infectious and contagious disease.Clinicians and specialists view leprosy broadly caruso milk thistle as a systemic infection, since, in its manifestations, it mimics many conditions, such as rheumatic, vascular, ENT, neurological and dermatological diseases.There are few studies that characterize the fa
This paper explores which demographic characteristics substantially bias self-reported physical and cognitive health status of older Europeans.The analysis utilises micro-data for 19 European countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to compare performance-tested outcomes of mobility and memory with their self-reported eq