We apply nonlocal density-functional formalism to describe an equilibrium distribution of the waterlike fluid in the asymmetric nanoscale junction presenting an atomic force microscope tip dwelling above an arbitrary surface. The hydrogen bonding dominating in intermolecular attraction is modeled as a square-well potential with two adjustable parameters (energy and length) characterizing well's...

A fundamental part of studying human mobility is to detect dwelling. When we dwell we are not necessarily stationary, but move around in a confined area. Most of our significant places are indoors, which hampers the detection using GPS. In this work, we discuss three different sensor sources when used for dwelling detection in urban environments: GPS, Wi-Fi and geolocation. Our study is based o...

We address a long hypothesized relationship between the proximity of individuals' dwelling units and their kinship association. Better understanding this relationship is important because of its implications for contact and association among members of a society. In this paper, we use a unique dataset from Nang Rong, Thailand which contains dwelling unit locations (GPS) and saturated kinship ne...

The effects of density on territory size and population regulation in juvenile rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss Jacquelyn Lee Ann Wood Despite a wealth of research on territoriality and population regulation in stream dwelling salmonids, most studies have focused on manipulations of food abundance alone, or else have simultaneously manipulated space and food abundance, but used population den...

Objective To compare the health-related quality of life (HRQL) indicators between institutionalized and community-dwelling elderly men and women. Method This was a cross-sectional study with a sample of 496 elderly men and women, surveyed by researchers at a private hospital that attends institutionalized and community-dwelling elderly. HRQL (World Health Organization Quality of Life), daily ...

Understanding food-web dynamics requires knowing whether species assemblages are compartmentalized into distinct energy channels, and, if so, how these channels are structured in space. We used isotopic analyses to reconstruct the food web of a Kenyan wooded grassland. Insect prey were relatively specialized consumers of either C3 (trees and shrubs) or C4 (grasses) plants. Arboreal predators (a...

Methods We evaluated the association between neighbourhood walkability and incident childhood asthma using prospectively-collected administrative data at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Among the 1997-2003 birth cohorts of children living in Toronto, neighbourhood quintile of walkability was reported using a validated walkability index with 4 dimensions: population density, dwel...

Abstract Background Many animals display morphological and behavioural adaptations to the habitats in which they live resources exploit. Bite force is an important whole-organism performance trait that allows increase dietary breadth, inclusion of novel prey diet, territory predatory defence, during mating many lizards. Methods Here, we study six species southern African agamid lizards from thr...