Enhancement and desert

Desert Dermatoses (Thar Desert, India)

Desert dermatology describes the cutaneous changes and the diseases affecting those living in the desert. Diurnal variation in temperature is high and is characteristic of the deserts. The lack of water affects daily activities and impacts dermatological conditions. Adaptation to the desert is, therefore, important to survival. Infections are the most common conditions seen among this populatio...

Comparative Study of Desert and Non-desert Rodent Kidneys

BACKGROUND AND SPECIFIC AIMS The study of physiological adaptation and diversity has been a central issue in ecological and evolutionary physiology. For example, the environmental tuning of an organism’s physiology is often hypothesized to be responsible for allowing an organism to adjust to changing biotic and abiotic conditions, through increases in physiological performance. This is well exe...

Desert hopes

still your go-to example of a missing link? Well, it turns out that palaeontology has made great strides since you were at school and there are now numerous beautiful examples of transitional forms, from fossilised creatures linking land and marine mammals to half-ant-half-wasps preserved in amber and many others. What is more, these transitional forms are always dated to the right point in his...

Desert Ecosystems: Environment and Producers

Fairness and desert in tournaments

We model the behavior of agents who, in competitive situations, care about receiving their “just deserts”, i.e., what they feel they deserve. In particular we analyze the strategic behavior of two identical desert-motivated agents in a rank-order tournament. Each agent is assumed to be loss averse about an endogenous and meritocratically determined reference point that represents her perceived ...