BACKGROUND Territory owners usually defeat intruders. One explanation for this observation is the uncorrelated asymmetry hypothesis which argues that contests might be settled by an arbitrary convention such as "owners win." We studied the effect of territorial residency on contest asymmetries in the white-eared hummingbird (Hylocharis leucotis) in a fir forest from central Mexico. METHODS Tw...

1. Fluctuations in the quality of the habitat in which an animal lives can have major consequences for its behaviour and physiological state. In poor-quality habitat with low food availability, metabolically intensive foraging activity is likely to result in increased generation of reactive oxygen species, while scarcity of food can lead to a weakening of exogenously derived antioxidant defence...

We propose a new method for the estimation of a 3D shape of non-convex object from an image sequence taken with the object rotating under a fixed light source. First, all the territory candidate of the object is prepared in voxel space. The empty voxels are selected by using the cross-section estimation using a silhouette that is the conventional method. In this method, we think a ray that conn...

1 Centre for Disease Control, Department of Health, Northern Territory, Australia, 2 Royal Darwin Hospital, Department of Health, Northern Territory, Australia, 3 Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 4 School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 5 Public Health Virology, Forensic and Scientific Services, Qu...

Introduction. Suppose n countries border on a region the ownership of which is in dispute (Fig. 1). Is there a way of partitioning the disputed territory so each country receives a single piece adjacent to itself which it considers at least 1/n the total value of the territory, even though different parts of the territory may be valued differently by individual countries? The main purpose of th...

Alcohol - related violence among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (also called as "Indigenous") is a major public health concern in Northern Territory of Australia. There is dearth of epidemiological data that link three contributing epidemics: alcohol misuse, violence, and trauma in the Northern Territory. In this review, we aimed to concentrate on how these epidemics intersec...

The authors have a wide-spectrum of experience in territory alignment arising from research as well as direct interaction with over 300 sales forces. Based on their experience, they believe sales territory alignment is one of the most frequently overlooked sales force productivity areas. Many sales forces are losing millions of dollars each year because of territory imbalances. Wellmanaged comp...