The aim of this commentary is to present the position that a pattern language approach facilitates, even catalyzes (comparative) learning in planning for young professionals.This position builds on literature and is supported by the research work of six MSc Urbanism graduation projects, in which the students adopted Lotion a pattern language approa
Abstract Background Female mate choice may be adaptive when males exhibit heritable genetic variation at loci encoding resistance to infectious disease.The Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis predicts that females should assess the genetic quality of males by monitoring traits that indicate health and vigor (condition-dependent choice, Resistance or CD).Altern
To avoid predation, many species rely on vision to detect Napkins predators and initiate an escape response.The ability to detect predators may be lower in darker light conditions or with darker backgrounds.For birds, however, this has never been experimentally tested.We test the hypothesis that the response time of avian prey (feral pigeon Columbi
Alkaline protease, pepsin and trypsin were used to hydrolyze the bones and meat, shell and skirt of Chinese soft-shelled turtle to prepare functional peptides, and their physical and chemical properties such as main conformational changes and particle size were analyzed.The potential bone mineral density-regulating activity of each enzymatic hydrol