HASTE MAKES WASTE: ACCELERATED MOLT ADVERSELY AFFECTS THE EXPRESSION OF MELANIN-BASED AND DEPIGMENTED PLUMAGE ORNAMENTS IN HOUSE SPARROWS.

Haste makes waste: accelerated molt adversely affects the expression of melanin-based and depigmented plumage ornaments in house sparrows.

Many animals display colorful signals in their integument which convey information about the quality of their bearer.Theoretically, these ornaments incur differential production and/or maintenance costs that enforce their honesty.However, the proximate mechanisms of production costs are poorly understood and contentious in cases of non-carotenoid-b

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Sustainable plastic waste management in a circular economy

The discovery of plastics as useful materials for human existence, providing comfort and ease has now hinge turned into a menace in the society and a pain in the neck as plastics have also become co-habitat of the human ecosystem.Plastics were made by men, but plastics now live way longer than the men who gave them the privilege of existence.Since

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Questions of Quiddity in History and Responding Strategies

Quiddity questions are of the main five questions of historical investigations focusing on the discovery of the quiddity of historical events.The concept of quiddity questions and the strategies taken to answer them are considered as the most important issues being worth to be Quercetin reflected.This article tries to investigate these issues relyi

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Changes of deep gray matter magnetic susceptibility over 2years in multiple sclerosis and healthy control brain

In multiple sclerosis, Riding Jackets pathological changes of both tissue iron and myelin occur, yet these factors have not been characterized in a longitudinal fashion using the novel iron- and myelin-sensitive quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) MRI technique.We investigated disease-relevant tissue changes associated with myelin loss and ir

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