Kin selection theory predicts that, in social Hymenoptera, the parentage of males should be determined by within-colony relatedness. We present a model showing that, when sex ratios are split (bimodal) as a function of colony kin structure, the predictions of kin selection theory regarding the occurrence of worker reproduction and policing (prevention of worker reproduction) require modificatio...

The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Eating Disorder Unit is a Room: State wide public specialist service providing high quality support and intervention to adults requiring an inpatient admission to treat eating disorders. Family members and carers play a significant role in providing support for their loved one both in the community and during inpatient admissions. A gap in service deliver...

Growing empirical evidence has suggested an association between deployment experiences and adverse consequences among military families in terms of individual and family functioning. Military families are increasingly seeking the support of clinical social workers for both preventing and managing these adverse outcomes. The contextual model of family stress and coping, a family stress theory co...

the purpose of the present article is to consider the independent single girl’s life style. first, it has been considered the single girl’s life style utilizing the ideas of theorizers like torstein veblen, george zimel, max weber, adler and pierre bourdieu and then it has been done an experimental study through a mixed approach. this research was done via quantitative and qualitative methods. ...

Reproductive division of labor is one of the defining traits of honey bees (Apis mellifera), with non-reproductive tasks being performed by workers while a single queen normally monopolizes reproduction. The decentralized organization of a honey bee colony is maintained in large part by a bouquet of queen-produced pheromones, the distribution of which is facilitated by contact among workers thr...

Inclusive fitness theory predicts that in colonies of social Hymenoptera headed by a multiple-mated queen, workers should benefit from policing eggs laid by other workers. Foster & Ratnieks provided evidence that in the vespine wasp Dolichovespula saxonica, workers police other workers' eggs only in colonies headed by a multiple-mated queen, but not in those headed by a single-mated one. This c...

Understanding why individuals within altruistic societies forgo reproduction to raise others' offspring has fascinated scientists since Darwin. Although worker polymorphism is thought to have evolved only in sterile workers, worker subcastes appear to be common among social invertebrates and vertebrates. We asked whether sterility accompanies eusociality and morphological differentiation in sna...

Background A family traditionally consisted of a married man, his wife, and their children. The new reproductive technologies including use of the third party as egg, sperm and embryo donation and also surrogacy have changed the traditional meanings of lineage, ancestry and family. The increasing number of lesbians and gays in addition to single women requesting fertility treatment from IVF cen...

While family reunification is the primary permanency objective for children who must be placed temporarily outside of their homes, reunification is not possible for all children. For those children who do not return to their parents and cannot find permanent homes with other family members, adoption is the favored outcome. This review examines the composite measure in the federal Child and Fami...

This paper presents a heterogeneous computing algorithm for 3D Richardson-Lucy image deconvolution applicable for use on single heterogeneous workstations, all the way up to large distributed memory clusters consisting of many heterogeneous nodes. We demonstrate our solution on a cluster of nodes containing multiple CPU cores and GPUs. The algorithm uses a combination of message passing and mas...