Female sperm storage can influence male reproductive success and may favour males that produce sperm that remain viable across several ovarian cycles. Here we show that sperm are viable in the female reproductive tract across ovarian cycles in the mallee dragon, Ctenophorus fordi. Based on experimental mating trials, we show that stored sperm were generally less likely to fertilize eggs than recen

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The main concern of this book is to determine when the gap in living standards between the East and the West emerged. Why did Europe experience industrialization and modern economic growth before China, India, or Japan? This is one of the most fundamental questions in Economic history and one that has provoked intense debate. The established view, dating back to Adam Smith, is that the gap emerged

In membrane emulsification, especially under conditions where droplets are forming with a narrow droplet size distribution, it is conjectured that the interfacial phenomena are determining the emulsification result. The process parameters of continuous phase flow and dispersed phase flux were analysed from the perspective of how they could be affecting the interfacial tension of the growing drople

ven the most localized rule-of-law conflicts are integrally tied to global forces. At the local level, these global discourses and resources are utilized in the local power struggles as they play themselves out in democracy promotion projects. This paper analyses the role of local NGOs in helping to institute the rule of law in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. Global democracy promotion effo

Binding of calcium to the protein calmodulin leads to molecular reorganization that enables interaction with target peptides and activation of downstream processes. I have studied the dynamics of the calcium-loaded form of a C-terminal calmodulin mutant (E140Q-Tr2C) using NMR spin relaxation experiments. E140Q-Tr2C exhibits global conformational exchange on the microsecond time-scale. The populati

Archaeology of Light - to affirm Modernity. In the last decades archaeologists have discussed and investigated modernity. What then characterizes modernity? Firstly the article discusses the concept and phenomena of modernity; secondly it presents four perspectives on the relationship between museums, archaeology and modernity; thirdly it proposes how archaeology as an “Archaeology of Light” migh

In this paper, I discuss the following questions: - What kind of implication arises from an argument wh-question? - What kind of implication arises from a clefted argument wh-question in Swedish? - Is there any difference in Swedish between clefted and non-clefted argument wh-questions with regard to the implications of existence they give rise to? I argue that both types of argument wh-questi

Om Riga under nazism och stalinism.