Movement uses resources that may otherwise be allocated to somatic maintenance or reproduction.How does increased energy expenditure affect resource allocation? Using the butterfly Speyeria mormonia, we tested whether experimentally increased flight affects fecundity, lifespan or flight capacity.We measured body mass (storage), resting metabolic ra
Jens Sundbøll,1 Sandra Kruchov Thygesen,1 Katalin Veres,1 Donghua Liao,2 Jingbo Zhao,2 Hans Gregersen,3 Henrik Toft Sørensen11Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; 2GIOME Academia, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 3GIOME, Department of Surgery, Chinese Uni
Large-scale agent-based social simulation is gradually proved to be an effective method for the study of human society.It can contribute to decision-making in social science, distributed artificial intelligence and agent technology in computer science, theory and modeling practice of computer simulation system, etc.However, the existing research pr
In this paper, we study implementation in settings where agents take strategic actions that influence MINI BREATHABLE LINERS preferences over mechanism outcomes and yet are hidden from the mechanism designer.We show that such settings can arise in entry auctions for markets, and that the Vickery-Clarke-Groves Mechanism is not guaranteed to be truth