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Females of a blood-sucking bug may adjust their mating decisions according to the risk of ovipositing infertile eggs
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2019-12)
Females should adjust their mating preferences when the costs of being selective vary. Here, we focus on the cost of laying unfertilized eggs. Oviparous species lose their fertilizable oocytes if remain virgin for too long. ...
Predictive feedback control: An alternative to proportional-integral-derivative control
(Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd, 2009-07)
Even though employed widely in industrial practice, the popular proportional?integral?derivative (PID) controller has weaknesses that limit its achievable performance. In this paper, an alternative control scheme that ...
Constructed wetlands as an alternative for arsenic removal from reverse osmosis effluent
(Elsevier, 2019-11-15)
In Argentina, drinking water for c.a. 10% of the population has arsenic (As) concentrations higher than those recommended by WHO (10 μg L−1). Reverse osmosis (RO) appears as an immediate and effective solution for As ...
Red-crested cardinal defences against shiny cowbird parasitism
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2012-04)
Avian brood parasites reduce the reproductive success of the host, which favours the evolution of antiparasitic defences, such as aggression towards parasites or rejection of their eggs. The red-crested cardinal, Paroaria ...
Letters from your editor: Should tropical researchers enter the racist “Millionaire’s Club”?
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2018)
Acute cellular rejection in small-bowel transplantation impairs NCR+ innate lymphoid cell subpopulation 3/interleukin 22 axis
(Elsevier Science, 2020-06)
Acute cellular rejection (ACR) remains as one of the main causes of graft loss and death in intestinal transplant (ITx) patients. ACR promotes intestinal injury, disruption of the mucosal barrier, bacterial translocation, ...