Comparison of the mating behaviour of a bush cricket in the laboratory and the field: Calling activity and mating frequency of a long-winged species, Phaneroptera falcata (Ensifera: Tettigoniidae)

Bush crickets are a model group for testing hypotheses in sexual selection, but much of the information is based on laboratory observations on wingless or short-winged species, which may restrict their generality.Here we describe aspects of the mating behaviour of the long-winged European bush cricket Phaneroptera falcata (Poda, 1761).Both in the l

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Effects of short duration stress management training on self-perceived depression, anxiety and stress in male automotive assembly workers: a quasi-experimental study

Abstract To examine the effects of short duration stress management training (SMT) on self-perceived depression, anxiety and stress in male automotive assembly workers, 118 male automotive workers from Pekan, Pahang (n = Left Link Cover 60, mean age = 40.0 years, SD = 6.67) and Kota Bharu, Kelantan (n = 58, mean age = 38.1 years, SD = 5.86) were as

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A post-merger hospital library collection survey and data analysis indicated better resource allocation and user satisfaction

This article follows a previous article in "Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana" describing the original merger of this library.Library Services Utility Carts at The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) was created as the result of a series of hospital mergers.It supports a large teaching hospital serving the city of Ottawa, Ontario, and the surrounding area.TOH was for

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Research on combination evaluation of operational stability of energy industry innovation ecosystem based on machine learning and data mining algorithms

As a uncommon typify of ecosystem, the innovation ecosystem led by sketch enterprises is a reticulation brigade formed by plat-led enterprises to stipulate fundamental neologization building and with other narrated enterprises and attached institutions.The netting relationship between enterprises is the substantial form of the innovation ecosystem.

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