https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.11.012 0003-3472/© 2017 The Association for the Study of A Group members interact with each other during multiple social behaviours that range from aggressive to affiliative interactions. It is not known, however, whether an individual's suite of social behaviours consistently covaries through time and across different types of social interactions. Consist...

Using large-scale call detail records of anonymised mobile phone service subscribers with demographic and location information, we investigate how a long-distance residential move within the country affects communication patterns between an ego who moved frequently called alter did not move. By using clustering methods in analysing frequency time series, find that such ego-alter pairs are group...

Throughout time, plentiful narratives have originated on individuals achieving astonishing things after receiving a ‘calling’ to a certain vocation. Examples range from the biblical calling of Moses in the desert to liberate the people of Israel from their oppression and slavery in Egypt [1] to Frodo Baggins being called to the quest aimed at destroying the ring of Sauron [2]. More recently and...

Courtship behavior in frogs is an ideal model for investigating the relationships among social experience, gonadal steroids, and behavior. Reception of mating calls causes an increase in androgen levels in listening males, and calling, in turn, depends on the presence of androgens. However, previous studies found that androgen replacement does not always restore calling to intact levels, and th...

above-ground biomass and a 20-fold increase in plant cover by Artemesia frigida, a common shrubby plant of some North American and Asian grasslands. This carbon dioxide induced enhancement of plant growth, among the highest so far reported, provides evidence from a native grassland that rising carbon dioxide levels since the onset of industrial times may have been contributing to the observed s...

The social brain hypothesis predicts that humans have an average of about 150 relationships at any given time. Within this 150, there are layers of friends of an ego, where the number of friends in a layer increases as the emotional closeness decreases. Here we analyse a mobile phone dataset, firstly, to ascertain whether layers of friends can be identified based on call frequency. We then appl...

ing leaders to create a forum to address the enormous challenges that face the profession now, and will continue to do so over the next several years. Many in the profession have been addressing these challenges, typically within the confines of the organizations that employ them. There has been no focused forum where nurse leaders themselves have an intellectual space for dialogue and planning...

Library developers often have to deal with client compatibility issues across versions of a library that are identical in their API specification. The reason for this can often be traced to some unspecified assumptions made by the client about the behaviour of exported library functions. Earlier work in this direction includes [4] . One could partially address this problem by analyzing the data...

Sexual behaviour in most of the noctuid Lepidoptera follows a diel periodicity and is limited to a precise period of either the day or the night. The periodicity and the maturation periods are specifi c as well as the onset of oviposition behaviour. The knowledge of these traits of biology is an essential prerequisite for all the studies in chemical ecology. The periodicity of adult emergence, ...