Adaptive significance
The adaptive significance of crustacean hyperglycaemic hormone (CHH) in daily and seasonal migratory activities of the Christmas Island red crab Gecarcoidea natalis
... likely that CHH release causes a significant tissue hyperglycaemia within 10min, which is in keeping with the view that signal transduction cascades following receptor binding by peptide hormones have timescales of just ...
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Exploring the Adaptive Significance of Five Types of Puma ( Puma concolor ) Vocalizations
... The structure of Puma vocalizations informs our understanding of their adaptive significance. Pumas are large mammals capable of producing deep and guttural calls; that they instead sometimes use birdlike ...
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Significance Tests for Binomial Experiments: Ordering the Sample Space by Bayes Factors and Using Adaptive Significance Levels for Decisions
... Keywords: Significance level, sample size, Bayes ratio, likelihood function, optimal decision, 22.. significance test.[r] ...
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Adaptive significance of venom glands in the tadpole madtom Noturus gyrinus (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae)
... the adaptive trait definition to which the researcher subscribes (Williams, 1966; Gould and Vrba, 1982; Sober, 1984; Fisher, 1985; Endler, 1986; Thornhill, 1990; Harvey and Pagel, 1991; Reeve and Sherman, ...
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Adaptive significance of functional germination traits in crop wild relatives of Brassica
... the germination of wild Brassica seed lots, especially thermal time parameters θT and.. Tb seem to be closely adapted to the precipitation of the maternal environment..[r] ...
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The adaptive significance of plumage polymorphism
... Sexual selection hypothesis If non-random mating through sexual selection has led to the evolution of plumage polymorphism in birds, then traits known to be related to sexual selection s[r] ...
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THEORY OF FITNESS IN A HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENT. VI. THE ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF MUTATION
... I n a symmetric quadratic deviation model, the advantage of mutation is the reduction of variance of gene frequency and a n increase in the correlation be- tween[r] ...
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The Evolution of Mechanisms Underlying Behaviour
... The survival value of behaviour was a subject close to Tinbergen’s heart and the emergence of behavioural ecology as a vibrant research field was one of the clear- est impacts of his legacy (Taborsky, 2014). Yet the suc- ...
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The Challenge of a Siberian Bluegrass (Poa) Phylogeny
... In Siberia, the bluegrass genus (Poa) comprises 43 species and 61 subspecies in 12 sections. Diverse modes of speciation, including polyploidy and hybridization, have led to reticulate evolution and adaptive ...
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Respiratory adaptations in a deep sea orbiniid polychaete from Gulf of Mexico brine pool NR 1: metabolic rates and hemoglobin structure/function relationships
... Adaptations to the environment The high affinity and strong Bohr effect observed in the vascular hemoglobin probably have adaptive significance in a low-oxygen environment, favoring both[r] ...
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Adaptive Headlight System for Automobiles
... accidents adaptive headlights concept is very useful for ...In adaptive headlight system, the movement of headlight is synchronized with the movement of steering ...
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An Agent Based Framework to Support Adaptive Hypermedia
... an adaptive hypermedia system for an experimental analysis of various adaptive techniques (Hothi & Hall, ...provided adaptive navigation by applying a different linkbase for each stereotype ...
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Multi microphone speech enhancement technique using a novel neural network beamformer : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
... An adaptive filter algorithm is used here to approximate this transfer function. The two microphones are placed about 30 cm apart, and the location of the user is directly in front of the system. A simple filter ...
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Detection of suspicious lesion based on Multiresolution Analysis using windowing and adaptive thresholding method
... based adaptive thresholding method that used first a 2D undecimated wavelet transform of an image at 4-5 scales then took its histogram which was considered as the probability density function of an image and then ...
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Adaptive ARIMA Model based on Lazy Learning Algorithm for Short Period Electric Load Forecasting
... This paper proposes a novel method of adaptive ARIMA compared with conventional adaptive ARIMA. The experimental results show the advanced performance of proposed method. Because there is little fluctuation ...
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Technology for Single Cell Protein Analysis in Immunology and Cancer Prognostics
... Significance indicators are shown above proteins that were statistically distinguishable... Significance indictors are displayed above the geoms.[r] ...
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Improved sparse representation using adaptive spatial support for effective target detection in hyperspectral imagery
... For the three HSI datasets, one simulated one and two real ones, three approaches are applied for sparse representation based target detection, including the basic one without spatial support, namely BSR, and two ...
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GWmodel
... an adaptive bandwidth suits highly irregular sample configurations. Adaptive bandwidths ensure sufficient (and constant) local information for each local ...
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The Significance of Franchise
... (Recently,! some! franchisors! have! been! calculating! th<! eir! royalty! payments! weekly! on! the! forecast! sales! but! having! them! deductible! when! the! franchisee! completes![r] ...
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The Significance Of Frnshise
... Pure ( or comprehensive or business format ) franchising involves providing the franchisee with a complete business format, including a licence for a tradename, the pro- ducts or[r] ...
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