ECOLOGY AND CAUDAL SKELETAL MORPHOLOGY IN BIRDS: THE CONVERGENT EVOLUTION OF PYGOSTYLE SHAPE IN UNDERWATER FORAGING TAXA.

Ecology and caudal skeletal morphology in birds: the convergent evolution of pygostyle shape in underwater foraging taxa.

Birds exhibit a specialized tail that serves as an integral part of the flight apparatus, supplementing the role of the wings in facilitating high performance aerial locomotion.The evolution of this function for the tail contributed to the diversification of birds by allowing them to utilize a wider range of flight behaviors and thus exploit a grea

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Optimal energy management of fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle based on model predictive control and on-line mass estimation

Energy management strategies with prediction message show great potential in optimizing control objectives Magnetic Power Bank for fuel cell hybrid vehicles.This paper presents a novelty model-predictive-control based energy management framework for fuel cell commercial vehicle, in which the vehicle mass is firstly introduced as a variable paramete

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Alcohol Withdrawal and Lithium Toxicity: A Novel Psychiatric Mannequin-Based Simulation Case for Medical Students

Introduction High-fidelity mannequin-based simulation is frequently used to compliment medical student education during clinical clerkships.However, psychiatric educators have not broadly adopted this modality, focusing rather on standardized patient actors.We developed and delivered a Whitland Junior Borderers simulation case involving a patient w

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Traditional family values as a determinant of the marital and reproductive behaviour of young people: the case of Southern and Eastern Serbia

This paper analyses the importance of the family of origin for the marital and reproductive behaviour of young people in Southern and Eastern Serbia.The data were gathered using quantitative techniques: surveys and scaling.The study was carried out in the region of Southern and Eastern Serbia across nine districts.The quota sample numbered 500 resp

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