Ant colonies regulate activity in ANTI-FRIZZ CONDITIONER response to changing conditions without using centralized control.Desert harvester ant colonies forage for seeds, and regulate foraging to manage a tradeoff between spending and obtaining water.Foragers lose water while outside in the dry air, but ants obtain water by metabolizing the fats in
This study aims to examine the contribution of morphological awareness to second language (L2) Chinese reading comprehension through potential mediating factors.Adult L2 Chinese learners (n = 447) participated in the study and completed two morphological awareness tasks (segmentation and discrimination), two vocabulary knowledge tasks (character kn
Memory is mainly understood as the recollection of past events.The human brain and its simplest unit, the synapse, belong to the places in which such memories are physically stored.From an experimental point of view, memory can be tested in humans by recall.However, in other organisms, memory is reflected in its use by individuals to learn about an
Abstract Background Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is a clinical syndrome defined by loss of ovarian function before the age of 40 years, characterized by elevated serum gonadotropin levels and decreased estrogen levels with menstrual disturbance.POI can be natural or iatrogenic such as after chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.Case prese