Search results for "Vole"

Interpersonal forgiveness and meaning in life in older adults: The mediating and moderating roles of the religious meaning system

2021

Forgiving others may play an important role in achieving meaning in life as it offers a valuable platform for deliberate moral acts of acceptance of positive affect, behaviour, and cognition towards a transgressor. The aim of this paper was to analyse the relationship between forgiveness and presence, and the search for meaning in life, as well as the mediating role of the religious meaning system in this relationship among older adults. A total of 205 older adults, 112 women and 93 men, participated in the study. The mean age was 72.59. The Transgression-Related Interpersonal Motivations Scale, the Meaning in Life Questionnaire, and the Religious Meaning System Questionnaire were employed …

La consapevolezza professionale del docente

2017

Sono evidenziati alcuni caratteri specifici della consapevolezza professionale del docente come forma di meta-competenza di natura sia strategica sia tattica, riferibile al saper gestire se stessi nel contesto dei processi formativi e auto-formativi connessi con l’acquisizione di nuove competenze e/o con lo sviluppo ulteriore di competenze già presenti, in vista del loro trasferimento a nuovi contesti. E’ s analizzata e misurata la consapevolezza professionale di un gruppo di 744 docenti siciliani di scuole secondarie di primo e secondo grado, a partire dall’utilizzo di due strumenti di autovalutazione metacognitiva (il Questionario ALM e il Questionario MAI) e di uno strumento di autovalut…

Ecology of host-parasite relationships in boreal Europe : voles, food and infectious diseases

2014

Distinct bhaplotype structure at the innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 2 across bank vole populations and lineages in Europe

2015

Abstract: Parasite-mediated selection may contribute to the maintenance of genetic variation at host immune genes over long time scales. To date, the best evidence for the long-term maintenance of immunogenetic variation in natural populations comes from studies on the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, whereas evidence for such processes from other immune genes remains scarce. In the present study, we show that, despite pronounced population differentiation and the occurrence of numerous private alleles within populations, the innate immune gene Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) displays a distinct haplotype structure in 21 bank vole (Myodes glareolus) populations across Europe. Haplo…

«INTELLIGENTE, IRONICA». OLTRE IL MATRIARCATO, LA DONNA IN ALCUNE OPERE DI LEONARDO SCIASCIA

2021

Intelligente e ironica. Così appare al pittore protagonista del romanzo Todo modo la donna che lascia il marito nello spiazzale antistante L’Eremo di Zafer. Il tempo di uno sguardo, di una breve sequenza. Tuttavia il suo rilievo espressivo travalica la pagina per andare, insieme a tanti piccoli tasselli narrativi di altri racconti, a comporre un’inedita rappresentazione del personaggio femminile. E ciò assume un significato particolare se facciamo attenzione per un momento alle date, se consideriamo per esempio che l’anno di pubblicazione di Todo modo è lo stesso 1974 in cui lo scrittore rilascia la famosa intervista a Franca Leosini che tanto scandalo ha suscitato soprattutto fra le fem…

Sexism and Aggression in Adolescence.¿How Do They Relate to Perceived Academic Achievement?

2018

Sexist attitudes are rooted in patriarchal structures, which uphold traditional gender stereotypes, and which are still found in society today. Scholars have found gender differences in perceived academic achievement, with girls performing better than boys, and negative relationships between sexism and perceived academic achievement. Moreover, perceived academic achievement and sexist attitudes have been associated with aggression and different kinds of violence. This study examined the associations between sexist attitudes and perceived academic achievement (using self-report data). The study also assessed the mediating role of physical and verbal aggression in the relationship between sex…

Do Tengmalm's owls see vole scent marks visible in ultraviolet light?

1997

Scent markings (urine and faeces) of small mammals are visible in ultraviolet (UV) light. Diurnal kestrels, Falco tinnunculususe them as a cue to find areas of food abundance. We studied whether vole-eating, nocturnal Tengmalm's owls, Aegolius funereuscan see vole scent marks using UV-vision. In a laboratory experiment, 14 young (less than 6 months old) and 14 adult (more than 6 months old) owls were individually given a choice between four adjacent arenas: (1) an arena with vole urine and faeces in UV light; (2) an arena with vole urine and faeces in visible light; (3) a clean arena in UV light; and (4) a clean arena in visible light. Owls did not prefer any of the four arenas. Our results…

Behavioural responses of voles to simulated risk of predation by a native and an alien mustelid: an odour manipulation experiment

2010

Context. Potential mammalian prey commonly use the odours of their co-evolved predators to manage their risks of predation. But when the risk comes from an unknown source of predation, odours might not be perceived as dangerous, and anti-predator responses may fail, except possibly if the alien predator is of the same archetype as a native predator. Aims. In the present study we examined anti-predator behavioural responses of voles from the outer archipelagos of the Baltic Sea, south-western Finland, where they have had no resident mammalian predators in recent history. Methods. We investigated responses of field voles (Microtus agrestis) to odours of native least weasels (Mustela nivalis)…

Female bank voles ( Clethrionomys glareolus ) prefer dominant males; but what if there is no choice?

1996

Both intra-sexual competition between males and female mate choice have been found to affect mating behaviour in rodents. We studied female choice in the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) under circumstances where male-male competition was excluded and the female could interact and mate freely with the males. Mating behaviour was observed in two situations: (1) the female encountered two males with a clear dominance relationship; and (2) the two males were equal in their social status. In all tests where a female in postpartum oestrus had a choice between males of different social rank she mated with the dominant one. When choosing between an even pair of males there was no difference in …

WEASELS’ (MUSTELA NIVALIS NIVALIS) PREFERENCE FOR OLFACTORY CUES OF THE VOLE (CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS)

2003

Many studies on life history strategies of small mammals under predation risk are based on assumptions that mammalian predators use scent marking from prey in searching and hunting. This is especially true for small mustelids hunting in the tunnels and cavities of their prey. It is assumed that weasels use the estrous signs of female voles as hunting cues, which exposes such females to a more pronounced risk of predation. We studied the preferences of 57 least weasels (Mustela nivalis nivalis) toward odor cues from four different reproductive categories of the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus). In the first experiment, weasels selected clearly for vole odors over clean bedding in a Y-maze…