Divergence in male mating signals and associated female preferences is often an important step in the process of speciation. Reproductive character displacement, the pattern of greater divergence of male signals and/or female preference in sympatry than in allopatry, has been observed in a variety of taxa with different degrees of postzygotic isolation. A number of selective processes, includin...

Character displacement has long been considered a major cause of adaptive diversification. When species compete for resources or mates, character displacement minimizes competition by promoting divergence in phenotypes associated with resource use (ecological character displacement) or mate attraction (reproductive character displacement). In this study, we investigated whether character displa...

The present study reports the anthro-pogenetic traits such as tongue rolling and tongue folding of the Table 1: Distribution of tongue rolling and tongue folding the among Vannekula Kshatriya of Andhra Pradesh Character Male Female Total (125) (90) (215)

OBJECTIVE To study the effects of smoking in a film trailer. DESIGN Experimental study. SETTING Ten secondary schools in Northern Germany. PARTICIPANTS A sample of 1051 adolescents with a mean (SD) age of 14.2 (1.8) years. Main Exposures Participants were randomized to view a 42-second film trailer in which the attractive female character either smoked for about 3 seconds or did not smoke...

BACKGROUND • Stigmatization associated with mental illnesses could prevent schizophrenic and people with major depression to access to healthcare. OBJECTIVES • The objective of current study is to describe public beliefs and attitudes about schizophrenia, major depression and psychotropic drugs in Tunisia:  to investigate attitudes towards people suffering from these disorders, i.e., emotional...

In this paper, work has been performed to recognize Handwritten English Character using a multilayer perceptron with one hidden layer. The feature extracted from the handwritten character is Boundary tracing along with Fourier Descriptor. Character is identified by analyzing its shape and comparing its features that distinguishes each character. Also an analysis was carried out to determine the...

During hypnotically suggested sex change, 36 real (12 virtuoso and 24 high hypnotizable) and 18 simulating (low hypnotizable) individuals listened to a story involving a male and a female character. They subsequently reported their experience and recall of the story. Virtuosos were less likely than highs and simulators to identify with the character consistent with their suggested sex. However,...