BEHAVIOURAL ADAPTATIONS TO MOISTURE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT IN A NOCTURNAL BURROW-INHABITING KALAHARI DETRITIVORE PARASTIZOPUS ARMATICEPS PERINGUEY (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE)

The nocturnal desert detritivore Parastiz.opus armaticeps shows differences in surface activity patterns and burrow fidelity depending on surface humidity.After rain approximately half of the beetle population, independent of sex, is highly vagile and disperses equi-jec 6 over long distances.During drought, beetles are more sedentary and show highe

This research investigates the overall heating energy consumptions using various control strategies, secondary heat emitters, cnd be demure and primary plant for a building.Previous research has successfully demonstrated that a dynamic distributed heat emitter model embedded within a simplified third-order lumped parameter building model is capable

Abstract Background Bone fracture is a common orthopedic disease that needs over 3 months to recover.Promoting the osteogenic differentiation of bone mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) is beneficial for fracture healing.Therefore, this research aimed to study the roles of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) KCNQ10T1 in osteogenic differentiation of BMSCs.Meth

This hancheng fashion paper is presented in the context of sensitivity analysis (SA) of large-scale data assimilation (DA) models.We studied consistency, convergence, stability and roundoff error propagation of the reduced-space optimization technique arising in parallel 4D Variational DA problems.The results are helpful to understand the reliabili

To investigate the recovery effect of natural self-healing of freeze-thaw damage of cementitious pc850q material-poor hydraulic concrete, we carried out a natural self-healing test for hydraulic concrete damaged by up to 200 rapid freeze-thaw cycles.The self-healing effect of macro-mechanical properties of hydraulic concrete damaged by freeze-thaw