Reproductive Investment
Size-dependent patterns of reproductive investment in the North American invasive plant species Triadica sebifera (L.) Small (Euphorbiaceae)
... female investment from the first age of reproduction, coupled with an early onset of reproduction, may be a crucial difference between this invasive species and native plants in its invaded ...of ...
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Early reproductive investment, senescence and lifetime reproductive success in female Asian elephants
... early reproductive investment and subsequent survival also in the wild (Gustafsson & Part, 1990; Reid et ...different reproductive strategies for longer term survival and lifetime fitness were ...
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Current versus future reproductive investment adaptive responses in adult Anopheles coluzzii malaria mosquitoes: hydric stressed males give it all
... Pre‑mating hydric stress and sperm transfer by males The effect of hydric stress prior to mating on male repro- ductive investment was tested by quantifying sperm transfer and insemination rate. Before mating ...
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Corticosterone modulation of reproductive and immune systems trade offs in female tree lizards: long term corticosterone manipulations via injectable gelling material
... and reproductive investment (Wilson and Wingfield, 1992), but did not significantly alter either component in this ...treated reproductive females, for reasons that are yet ...
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TOWARDS A GENETIC THEORY FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE SEX RATIO
... For the purpose of examining the significance to sex-ratio evolution of the concept of reproductive investment and the sex-ratio strategy arguments, we have formulated a ge[r] ...
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"We Are Not Hired Help:" The 1968 Statewide Florida Teacher Strike, the Rise of Modern Conservatism, and the Potency of Teacher Power
... stage reproductive investment of the pair is also ...the reproductive success of these ...the reproductive investment of males in this ...their investment behaviors and possibly ...
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Value, periphery and crisis: Argentina 1910 2011
... The investment effort, the ratio of the net investment that expands fixed capital and the mass of profit, presents an upward trend, finding its peak in 2011, when they accounted for ...the investment ...
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Decreased Sprint Speed as a Cost of Reproduction in the Lizard Sceloporus Occidentalis: Variation among Populations
... In addition, gravid females from Washington had significantly higher reproductive investment mass of clutch relative to the mass of the female after oviposition than Oregon and Californi[r] ...
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Amphibians with infectious disease increase their reproductive effort: evidence for the terminal investment hypothesis
... their reproductive investment, which is one outcome of terminal ...investment. Reproductive investment can be measured through efforts in mating, parental care and ...their ...
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Interpopulational variation in costs of reproduction related to pregnancy in a viviparous lizard
... in reproductive costs may affect variation in life history traits including reproductive investment ...between reproductive invest- ment and costs of reproduction, especially costs to ...
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A review of technological investment and its effects on firm’s performance
... manufacturing technology refers to the application of the latest scientific or engineering discoveries to the design of operations and production processes [7]. While there are several definitions of firm performance in ...
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Cluster randomized controlled trial protocol: addressing reproductive coercion in health settings (ARCHES)
... counseling intervention to reduce IPV, RC and unintended pregnancy compared to standard-of-care in family planning clinic settings. The ARCHES intervention was refined based on formative research. Twenty five family ...
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Mutual Fund Investor Preference and its Performance
... Abstract: Investors in general have appetite to invest in that instrument which may generate maximum return with minimum risk. Mutual fund are aforesaid to be the most effective channels for mobilizing the funds of the ...
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METHODICAL ISSUES OF FORMATION AND ESTIMATION OF INVESTMENT CLIMATE
... of investment attractiveness inevitably lead to different approaches in determining its internal components, reflecting either the stability of the financial condition of the enterprise, the profitability of ...
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An Investment Court System for the New Generation of EU Trade and Investment Agreements: A Discussion of the Free Trade Agreement with Vietnam and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada
... in investment disputes under the FTA with Vietnam or CETA, which concern the inter- pretation or appreciation of EU law, the future of both agreements remains ...
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Three's Company: A Constitutional Analysis of Prohibiting Access to Three-Parent In Vitro Fertilization
... 135. See id. at 2796–2800 (expounding on the lack of clarity employed by the rheto- ric in fundamental rights cases); Joanna Nairn, Is There a Right to Have Children? Substantive Due Process and Probation Conditions that ...
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Returns on foreign assets and liabilities: exorbitant privileges and stabilising adjustments Bruegel Working Paper ISSUE 07 | 29 NOVEMBER 2017
... Source: Bruegel using data from the IMF Balance of Payments Statistics. Note: The sum of FDI, portfolio investment and other investment is considered (that is, financial derivatives and reserves assets are ...
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Reciprocal cross infection of sticklebacks with the diphyllobothriidean cestode Schistocephalus solidus reveals consistent population differences in parasite growth and host resistance
... its reproductive success is null, but the bigger it grows in the stickleback, the more offspring it can produce after transmission to its definitive host ...
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The Risk Measurement of China’s Insurance Fund Investment—Based on VaR Model
... modern investment theory, it still has many ...insurance investment types, the risks are becoming more and more ...an investment risk management system with VAR model as its core, can we better adapt ...
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E Investment Banking: NextGen Investment
... Advanced Real Estate Forecasting gives you accurate data whenever you need it. It enables you to easily project future cash flows and pro-vide up-to-date property valuation. Real estate leasing information is used to ...
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