The topic of cognitive foresight in non-human animals has received considerable attention in the last decade. The main questions concern whether the animals can prepare for upcoming situations which are, to various degrees, contextually or sensorially detached from the situation in which the preparations are made. Studies on great apes have focused on tool-related tasks, e.g., the ability to se...

the thermal diffusion factor, at, for a binary gas mixture is calculated on the basis of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. a new formula for at is derived and this factor is given for several paris of gases according to this formula.

Reseña del libro de Gérard Dufour y François Magne, Los últimos años vida Juan Antonio Llorente. Nuevas aportaciones, Universitat D'Alacant, Alicante, 2021.

We proposed a general formulation of the successive linearization method for solving highly nonlinear boundary value problem arising in rotating disk flow. The problem was studied under the effects of partial slip, thermal diffusion, and diffusion-thermo. The governing fundamental conservation equations of mass, momentum, angular momentum, energy, and concentration are transformed into a system...

The genus Messor consists of 113 species of seed harvesting ants that are found in grasslands, semi-arid areas and savannahs in both the Old and New World. A full spectrum of foraging strategies occurs in Messor, ranging from individual to group foraging, with the latter having evolved several times. This paper reviews foraging strategies and the underlying behavioral mechanisms found in specie...

The current study used a novel Casson model to investigate hybrid Al2O3-Cu/Ethylene glycol nanofluid flow over moving thin needle under MHD, Dufour–Soret effects, and thermal radiation. By utilizing the appropriate transformations, governing partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary equations. solved analytically using HAM. Furthermore, we discuss velocity profiles, temperatu...

-The Dufour gland secretions of Messor minor, Messor capitatus and Messor bouvieri differ from those of other myrmicine ants so far studied in having no sesquiterpenoids present. M. minor resembles the North American harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex, in containing branched chain hydrocarbons. Messor and Pogonomyrmex appear anomalous among myrmicines and more closely resemble some formicines in this...

In this paper we propose bootstrapping Hannan and Rissanen (1982) estimators in stationary invertible VARMA models, with known order (p, q). Although we consider bootstrapping such models under the echelon form parameterization, the results we derive herein remain valid to other alternative identification issues. In particular, we shall exploit the theoretical developments stated in Dufour and ...

We consider the problem of testing whether the observations X 1; . . . ;X n of a time series are independent with unspecified (possibly nonidentical) distributions symmetric about a common known median. Various bounds on the distributions of serial correlation coefficients are proposed: exponential bounds, Eaton-type bounds, Chebyshev bounds and Berry–Esséen– Zolotarev bounds. The bounds are ex...