In this paper, we present the results of one aspect of a multinational, multi-institutional study of computer programming students. Specifically, this paper reports on an exploration of relationships between novice programmers’ map-drawing styles (landmark, route or survey) and success in a first programming course at tertiary level. Relationships were found between mapCopyright © 2006, Austral...

A complete understanding of male reproductive success, and thus sexual selection, often requires an insight into male success in sperm competition. Genuine conclusions on male sperm competitiveness can only be made in real competitive situations. However, statistical analyses of sperm competitiveness from fertilization success data have been shown to be problematic. Here, I first outline a comp...

A king u in a tournament is a player who beats any other player v directly or indirectly. That is, either u → v (u beats v) or there exists a third player w such that u→ w and w → v. A sorted sequence of kings in a tournament of n players is a sequence of players, S = (u1, u2, . . . , un), such that ui → ui+1 and ui in a king in sub-tournament Tui = {ui ,ui+1, . . . , un} for i = 1,2, . . . , n...

92 Hansraj Riteesh Bookun is currently a Vascular Surgery Registrar at the University Hospital Geelong in Australia . He will be formally starting his training under the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in February 2016 at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. His other interests include automotive racing and karate. He has spent most of his teenage years actively competing in karate but has now ...

Male eagerness to mate is a central paradigm of sexual selection theory. However, limited sperm supplies mean that male sexual restraint might sometimes be favored under promiscuous mating. Here, we demonstrate dynamic plasticity in male mating effort when females are encountered sequentially under varying sperm competition risk. Rather than showing consistent eagerness to mate, male house mice...

Rapid divergence in postmating-prezygotic characters suggests that selection may be responsible for generating reproductive barriers between closely related species. Theoretical models indicate that this rapid divergence could be generated by a series of male adaptations and female counteradaptations by means of sexual selection or conflict, but empirical tests of particular mechanisms are gene...

Researching effects of media and advertising demands a search for a cost efficient, quick and verified method of testing the its emotional as well as rational effects on consumers. Thus a CASC (Communication Analytic and Syncretic Cognitions) scale was developed to meassure advertising effects and was selected for testing. In an extended research presented in this paper and based on 988 respond...

Apparently this did not occur in other countries, where mothers could either read instructions on the packet or write to the food companies for advice. When American mothers wrote to manufacturers for directions, they were advised to go to a physician. Although there was an "ideology of scientific motherhood" in early twentieth-century America, no mention is made of the eugenics movement, which...