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Gray plumage color is more cryptic than brown in snowy landscapes in a resident color polymorphic bird
2020
Abstract Camouflage may promote fitness of given phenotypes in different environments. The tawny owl (Strix aluco) is a color polymorphic species with a gray and brown morph resident in the Western Palearctic. A strong selection pressure against the brown morph during snowy and cold winters has been documented earlier, but the selection mechanisms remain unresolved. Here, we hypothesize that selection favors the gray morph because it is better camouflaged against predators and mobbers in snowy conditions compared to the brown one. We conducted an online citizen science experiment where volunteers were asked to locate a gray or a brown tawny owl specimen from pictures taken in snowy and snow…
Sobre cerámicas Helenísticas en Iberia / Hispania. Significado y funcionalidad
2012
In this work we are going to take a chronological and typological tour by studying the iconography that appears in the Hellenistic wares imported from the Central and Oriental Mediterranean between 3rd and 2nd centuries BC in Hispania Citerior, in particular from Cartagena. We are going to analyze its functionality in the places of origin, and with the help of the Hispanic contexts we will conclude whether its presence here is a consequence of a certain commercial dynamic, or if it answers to a decorative preference, of taste or trend; even if the images are significant related to ritual or convivial uses, public or private, by the local inhabitant who acquires and uses them.
Recognition of familiarity on the basis of howls: a playback experiment in a captive group of wolves
2015
Playback experiments were conducted with a pack of captive Iberian wolves. We used a habituation–discrimination paradigm to test wolves’ ability to discriminate howls based on: (1) artificial manipulation of acoustic parameters of howls and (2) the identity of howling individuals. Manipulations in fundamental frequency and frequency modulation within the natural range of intra-individual howl variation did not elicit dishabituation, while manipulation of modulation pattern did produce dishabituation. With respect to identity, across trials wolves habituated to unfamiliar howls by a familiar wolf (i.e., no direct contact, but previous exposure to howls by this wolf), but not to unfamiliar ho…
TRYPANOSOMES OF SOME FENNOSCANDIAN BIRDS
1994
Linear measurements and derived indices of trypanosomes from species of Fennoscandian birds were compared to those reported form Trypanosoma avium, T. everetti, T. ontarioensis and T. paddae. The trypanosomes encountered in the Fennoscandian birds were identified as T. avium from Tengmalm's owl Aegolius funereus and the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca, T. everetti from the great tit Parus major and collared flycatcher F. albicollis and T. ontarioensis from the collared flycatcher; T. paddae was not seen.
A hybrid approach to semantic web services matchmaking
2008
AbstractDeploying the semantics embedded in web services is a mandatory step in the automation of discovery, invocation and composition activities. The semantic annotation is the “add-on” to cope with the actual interoperability limitations and to assure a valid support to the interpretation of services capabilities. Nevertheless many issues have to be reached to support semantics in the web services and to guarantee accurate functionality descriptions. Early efforts address automatic matchmaking tasks, in order to find eligible advertised services which appropriately meet the consumer’s demand. In the most of approaches, this activity is often entrusted to software agents, able to drive re…
Les phiales étrusques de type Vetulonia/Colmar de la tomba del carrettino à Ca’ Morta (Côme, Italie) : essai de contre-typologie.
2021
AbstractA new study of the patere baccellate from the Tomba del carrettino at Ca’ Morta offers the opportunity to re-examine the typology of the ribbed bowls of Vetulonia/Colmar type and to re-evaluate their funerary contexts. These vessels appear in central and southern Etruria at the end of the eighth and the beginning of the seventh century BC, the site of Vetulonia being considered as their main production site.Ferdinando Sciacca’s (2005) classification of the ribbed bowls of Vetulonia/Colmar type is supported by solid evidence ; it has advanced the subject significantly, but Sciacca’s model nevertheless raises some questions in terms of the hierarchy of the criteria that were chosen.Du…
Yksilöllisen oppimisen mallin soveltuvuus yläkoulun 7. luokan lajintuntemuksen opetukseen
2017
Suomalaisen koulujärjestelmän uudistuksia ohjaamaan astuivat elokuussa 2016 voimaan uudet valtakunnallisen perusopetuksen opetussuunnitelmien perusteet, jotka korostavat konstruktivistista oppimiskäsitystä ja tulevaisuuden osaamiseen valmentavia tietoja ja taitoja. Biologian opetuksen tehtävänä on kartuttaa oppilaan luonnontuntemusta yhteisöllisiä ja toiminnallisia opetusmenetelmiä hyödyntäen. Sen tulee myös ohjata oppilaiden luonnontieteellisen ajattelun kehitystä vuorovaikutuksessa muiden oppilaiden kanssa. Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli tutkia matemaatikko Pekka Peuran kehittelemän yksilöllisen oppimisen mallin soveltuvuutta lajintuntemuksen opetukseen biologian oppiaineessa yläkoulun…