The work presented here aims at understanding the nature, epigenesis and function of personality types (here called behavioral profiles) in birds, focusing on a wild bird species, the great tit (Parus major). Lines bidirectionally selected for exploration show a wide array of social and non-social behavioral differences, and also some differences in physiological parameters. Line differences in...

The impact of three programmed strategies (tit-for-tat, 100% cooperation, and 100% defection) on cooperation level in the Prisoner's Dilemma game is examined as a function of the subject's motivational orientation (cooperative, competitive, or individualistic). Motivational orientation was assessed on the basis of each subject's choices across four classes of decomposed games. Following this as...

RCAS1 is a protein that participates in regulation of the tumor microenvironment and its immune responses, all in order to evade the immune system. The aim of this study was to analyze RCAS1 expression in urothelial bladder cancer cells (and in fibroblasts and macrophages of the tumor stroma) and its relationship with the histological pattern of malignancy. Eighty-three postcystectomy patients ...

Content delivery providers can improve their service scalability and offload their servers by making use of content transfers among their clients. To provide peers with incentive to transfer data to other peers, protocols such as BitTorrent typically employ a tit-for-tat policy in which peers give upload preference to peers that provide the highest upload rate to them. However, the tit-for-tat ...

The fundamental purpose of this paper is to propose a new Laplace-type integral transform (NL-TIT) for solving steady heat-transfer problems. proposed generalization the Sumudu, and Laplace transforms its visualization more comfortable than Sumudu transform, natural Elzaki transform. suggested used solve problems, results are compared with existing techniques.

If a document is written using a computer then it obviously makes sense for it to be read on the same medium. But how will the ordinary man-in-the-street react to this? How will he react to sitting down at a terminal instead of browsing through bookshelves? How will he react to scanning a screenful of text rather than feeling the ‘physicalness’ of a real book? What facilities will he expect? Wh...

Despite of their rising popularity, current cloud storage services and cloud-backed storage systems still have some limitations related to reliability, durability assurances and inefficient file sharing. We present SCFS, a cloud-backed file system that addresses these issues and provides strong consistency and near-POSIX semantics on top of eventually-consistent cloud storage services. SCFS pro...