scholarly journals Connecting the dots: exploring the relationship between avian eggshell pigmentation and paternal provisioning effort

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara E Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Eggshell Pigmentation ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
The Relationship

Connecting the Dots

2017 ◽  
pp. 26-41
Author(s):  
Olajumoke Ogunsanya
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
The Relationship

Calls for businesses to act with concern for the environment and society create new operating scenarios in which sustainability concerns must be taken into consideration along with the primary objectives of profitability and competitiveness. These additional obligations contribute to dynamism of the marketplace and make it important for businesses to draw on creativity and innovation to find connections between the unrelated in order to establish new efficiencies that can create competitive advantage and differentiation in the environment they find themselves. The central theme of this chapter is how bisociation informs collective creativity and innovation, and influences sustainability for business organizations competing in an environment that is in a permanent state of flux. This chapter trails a series of concepts to find the relationship between the concept of bisociation, collective creativity and sustainable business practices. The aim is to show how consistent creative thinking and exploration of information in different spaces of thought can proffer innovative solutions organizations require for their long term survival and prosperity.

scholarly journals Når kritikken tager magten. Samfundskritik og magtforskydninger ifølge Foucault, Boltanski og Chiapello

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Lars Thorup Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Similar Dynamic ◽  
Theoretical Conceptualization

Artiklen forsøger at begrebsliggøre det teoretiske forhold mellem magtrelationer og kritik, men uden at formulere en ekstern, normativ målestok for den rette samfundskritik. Argumentet er derimod, at eftersom magtrelationer selv rummer muligheden for at internalisere kritikken, må effektiv magtkritik være intern og stå i et intimt forhold til det, der er genstanden for kritik. Dette argument udvikles ved hjælp af en række begreber fra Foucaults magtanalytik, ikke mindst forestillingen om “diskursernes taktiske polyvalens“, som desuden kobles til forholdet mellem kritik og gouvernementalitet. Dernæst vises det i en diskussion af Boltanski og Chiapellos værk om kapitalismens nye ånd, at deres analyse rummer en lignende dynamik mellem samfundskritik og omvending af hierarkierne om end der samtidig også er afgørende forskelle til Foucaults perspektiv på magt og kritik. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Lars Thorup Larsen: When the Critics Take Power: Foucault, Boltanski & Chiapello on Critique and the Tactical Displacement of Power Relations This article seeks to conceptualize the relationship between power relations and critique, but without formulating an external, normative yardstick for critique. On the contrary, the argument put forth here is that since power relations in themselves contain the possibility for internalizing critic, then an effective critique of these power relations must be internal and have a close relation to that which is the object for critique. This argument is developed by connecting the dots between some of Foucault’s concepts – in particular the notions of “contre-conduites“ and the “tactical polyvalence of discourse“ – and a somewhat similar dynamic between hierarchy and critical mechanisms in Boltanski and Chiapello’s work on the new spirit of capitalism. Based on this theoretical conceptualization of the dynamic, in which critique leads to a displacement of power relations, one can better understand the anti-authoritarian thrust of social critique after 1968. While this has not led to a replacement of power with pure self-government, it has however created an internalization of anti-authoritarian critique into new relations of power and government. Key words: Critique, power, governmentality, Foucault, Boltanski.

scholarly journals Connecting the dots: avian eggshell pigmentation, female condition and paternal provisioning effort

2020 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara E Hodges ◽  
Nathan T Mortimer ◽  
Alysia D Vrailas-Mortimer ◽  
Scott K Sakaluk ◽  
Charles F Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Breeding Population ◽  
Honest Signal ◽  
Female Fitness ◽  
House Wrens ◽  
Nestling Provisioning ◽  
Female Quality ◽  
Eggshell Pigmentation ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
Cross Fostering

Abstract Differences in avian eggshell pigmentation could be an honest signal of female quality that males use to inform their nestling provisioning effort. We investigated whether among-individual variation in protoporphyrin-based eggshell pigmentation in house wrens (Troglodytes aedon) reflects female fitness-associated traits and whether males use that information. Females laying lighter clutches were older and larger than females laying darker clutches. Nestlings hatching from lighter clutches had greater size-corrected mass on post-hatch day 11, a measure that strongly predicts survival and recruitment to the breeding population. To test whether male provisioning effort responds to clutch pigmentation, we used a reciprocal clutch cross-fostering design, swapping dark with light clutches and light with dark; in controls, we swapped light with light clutches and dark with dark. Shortly before hatching, clutches were returned to their original nest to avoid confounding effects of nestling quality on male provisioning. Contrary to the sexual selection hypothesis, clutch pigmentation had no effect on male provisioning. Males were probably able to observe eggshell pigmentation and thus had information about female quality, but they did not use this information to modulate their nestling provisioning. This may be because of constraints on species-specific reproductive opportunities, or because variation in eggshell protoporphyrin serves other functions.

scholarly journals Connecting the Dots: Pre-existing Patterns of Gender Inequality and the Likelihood of Widespread and Systematic Sexual Violence

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara E. Davies ◽  
Jacqui True
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
The Relationship

In this article we explore the relationship between pre-existing patterns of gender inequality and the occurrence of widespread and systematic sexual and gender based violence (sgbv). We ask three questions: What do we know about the status of gender inequality in high-risk situations prior to the outbreak of atrocities (which include sgbv)? What can be done to understand the relationship between systemic gender inequality and the use of sexual violence in the particular high-risk situations? And what long-term approaches are necessary to prevent sgbv?

Connecting the Dots

2020 ◽  
pp. 1173-1188
Author(s):  
Olajumoke Ogunsanya
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
The Relationship

Calls for businesses to act with concern for the environment and society create new operating scenarios in which sustainability concerns must be taken into consideration along with the primary objectives of profitability and competitiveness. These additional obligations contribute to dynamism of the marketplace and make it important for businesses to draw on creativity and innovation to find connections between the unrelated in order to establish new efficiencies that can create competitive advantage and differentiation in the environment they find themselves. The central theme of this chapter is how bisociation informs collective creativity and innovation, and influences sustainability for business organizations competing in an environment that is in a permanent state of flux. This chapter trails a series of concepts to find the relationship between the concept of bisociation, collective creativity and sustainable business practices. The aim is to show how consistent creative thinking and exploration of information in different spaces of thought can proffer innovative solutions organizations require for their long term survival and prosperity.

Heart Rate and Blood Pressure: “Connecting the Dots” in Epidemiology and Pathophysiology

Angiology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 660-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikos Kouvas ◽  
Costas Tsioufis ◽  
Nikolaos Vogiatzakis ◽  
Elias Sanidas ◽  
Dimitrios Konstantinidis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Antihypertensive Agents ◽  
Clinical Importance ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Autonomous Nervous System ◽  
Physiological Mechanisms ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
The Relationship

There is robust evidence from epidemiological and clinical studies showing that elevated heart rate (HR) constitutes a powerful predictor of morbidity and mortality in patients with hypertension, underlining the significance of HR measurement in them. Autonomous nervous system dysfunction and atherosclerosis are important features in the pathogenesis of the untoward events. However, the relationship between HR and blood pressure (BP) is complex and differs depending on the type of BP measurement which is considered. This differentiation implicates complex physiological mechanisms and is of clinical importance regarding the divergent effect of the different types of antihypertensive agents on these parameters. The aim of this review is to summarize the current evidence on the relationship between HR and BP based on epidemiological, clinical, and experimental studies.

A Note on Teaching the Yuan-Dollar Market vis-a-vis China's Dollar Holdings

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1850254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jannett Highfill ◽  
Raymond Wojcikewych
Keyword(s):  
Central Bank ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Current Account ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Present Note ◽  
The Media ◽  
Economic Relationship ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

The economic relationship between China and the U.S. is sufficiently ubiquitous in the media that few students will be unacquainted with the issue. Connecting the dots between China’s export-led growth, current account surpluses, currency peg, and its reserves (whether held by the central bank or in a sovereign wealth fund) is a key task in any undergraduate course that touches on the global economy. The present note proposes a method for understanding the relationship between two items in this list, the currency peg and reserves. Maintaining exchange rates different from equilibrium (as China has done) has consequences for the quantities of currencies that have to be bought and sold. The dollars accumulated have to be held in some form – a fact which also has had far reaching consequences for the global economy. The paper proposes using currency offer curves to facilitate teaching fixed exchange rates to undergraduates. Our method helps students “see” the process of pegging the yuan and the resulting accumulation of dollars.

Interstellar gas in the central region of the Galaxy

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Continuum Emission ◽  
Galactic Centre ◽  
Interstellar Gas ◽  
Hydrogen Recombination ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Relationship

A review is given of information on the galactic-centre region obtained from recent observations of the 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen, the 18-cm group of OH lines, a hydrogen recombination line at 6 cm wavelength, and the continuum emission from ionized hydrogen.Both inward and outward motions are important in this region, in addition to rotation. Several types of observation indicate the presence of material in features inclined to the galactic plane. The relationship between the H and OH concentrations is not yet clear, but a rough picture of the central region can be proposed.

The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals

Paleobiology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Scleractinian Corals ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biologic Factors

The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the development of a skeleton in members of one of the anemone groups that probably have existed throughout Phanerozoic time. In spite of much work on the subject, advocates of the direct descent hypothesis have failed to find convincing evidence of this relationship. Critical points are:(1) Rugosan septal insertion is serial; Scleractinian insertion is cyclic; no intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa.(2) There is convincing evidence that the skeletons of many Rugosa were calcitic and none are known to be or to have been aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost certainly due to intrinsic biologic factors.(3) No early Triassic corals of either group are known. This fact is not compelling (by itself) but is important in connection with points 1 and 2, because, given direct descent, both changes took place during this only stage in the history of the two groups in which there are no known corals.

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