Social rank functions to facilitate coping responses to socially stressful situations and conditions.The evolution of social status appears to be inseparably connected to the evolution of stress.Stress, aggression, reward, and decision-making neurocircuitries overlap and interact to produce status-linked relationships, which are common among both m
We investigate the ground-state energy of a one-dimensional Fermi gas with two bosonic impurities.We consider spinless fermions with no fermion-fermion interactions.The fermion-impurity and impurity-impurity interactions are modeled with Dirac delta functions.First, we study the case where impurity and fermion have equal masses, and the impurity-im
This article provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the verbal tone system of Tura, a previously undocumented dialect of Luyia (Bantu, Kenya, J.30).Tura has many tonal Patterns marking tense-aspect-mood-polarity distinctions that are characterized by a grammatical ("melodic") H tone on different positions of the verb stem.The realizat
Plantations with fast growing exotic tree species can negatively affect native plant species diversity and promote the spread of alien species.Mediterranean Chile experienced major landscape changes with a vast expansion of industrial plantations of Pinus radiata in the past.However, with increasing knowledge of biodiversity effects on ecosystem se