BOTTOM OF THE HEAP: HAVING HEAVIER COMPETITORS ACCELERATES EARLY-LIFE TELOMERE LOSS IN THE EUROPEAN STARLING, STURNUS VULGARIS.

Bottom of the heap: having heavier competitors accelerates early-life telomere loss in the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris.

Early-life adversity is associated with poorer health and survival in adulthood in humans and other animals.One pathway by which early-life environmental stressors could affect the adult phenotype is via effects on telomere dynamics.Several studies have shown that early-life adversity is associated with relatively short telomeres, but these are oft

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Notes from the Field: The Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine

Humanitarian crises are politically and socially charged, and as actors, donors and organizations move in to help, duplication of services can ensue.Despite the influx of humanitarian actors into the war zone of eastern Ukraine, more are still needed to address immediate threat to the health of more than rab bck-s4 5 million at-risk people in the a

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On the arclength of trigonometric interpolants

As pointed out recently by Strichartz [5], the arclength of the graph (Gamma(S_N(f))) of the partial sums (S_N(f)) of the nitrile gloves in a bucket Fourier series of a jump function (f) grows with the order of (log N).In this paper we discuss the behaviour of the arclengths of the graphs of trigonometric interpolants to a jump function.Here the bo

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On Distributed Denial of Service Current Defense Schemes

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are a major threat to any network-based service provider.The ability of an attacker to harness the power of a lot of compromised devices to launch an attack makes it even more complex to handle.This complexity can increase even more when several attackers crb concept coordinate to launch an attack on one

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