Territoriality in animal populations creates spatial structure that is thought to naturally buffer disease invasion. Often, however, territorial populations also include highly mobile, non-residential individuals that potentially serve as disease superspreaders. Using long-term data from the Serengeti Lion Project, we characterize the contact network structure of a territorial wildlife populati...

Popular location-based games (LBGs) such as Pokémon GO have been downloaded hundreds of millions times and shown to a positive impact on mild exercise social well-being their players. Several currently popular LBGs introduce gamified implementation territorial conflict, where players are divided into teams that battle for the ownership geographically distributed points interest. We investigate ...

The problems of weak state structures, including state territoriality, in the South Caucasus has highly influenced political developments and the building of a democratic state. This paper explains the difficulty of recovering statehood in the cases of Armenia and Georgia, both in the context of post–Soviet state transformation and post–conflict state-rebuilding. It argues that recovering state...

Questions: Are there differences in whole-animal performance between the sexes, and what are the causes of this sexual dimorphism? Organisms: Humans, horses, greyhound dogs, pigeons, and lizards. Methods: We analysed performance records of human athletes, racehorses, greyhound dogs, racing pigeons, and lizards with respect to sexual dimorphism. Using the lizard data set, we correlated sexual di...

Coyote (Car1i.s1ntran.s)depredation is a chronic problem for sheep producers in the western United States. Due to increasingly localized control efforts, behaxior of individual coyotes in sheep-ranching entironments is becoming a more important consideration. We radiotracked 14 coyotes on a year-round sheep-ranching facility in north-coastal California during September 1993-December 1995. Breed...

In Article 8 of Turkish Penal Code (TPC) No. 5237, entitled “territorial jurisdiction”, it is stated that law will be enforced to the crimes committed within borders Turkey. Thus, principle territoriality seen have been adopted. this context, was first reviewed in study. However, order for enforced, necessary focus on what needs interpreted from country As a matter fact, seems two dimensions, r...