Effects of male age, body size and mating status on female mate preference and offspring sex ratio in Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

Mate choice is one of the main components of sexual selection, with females usually considered to be the selective sex.Male status is an important factor that affects female choice and to a large extent female mating preference.Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (Rondani) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) is an important solitary ectoparasitic idiobiont parasito

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Settling the Egyptian-Ethiopian Dispute over the Renaissance Dam Project: Between the Inadequacy of the Rules of International Law and the Impossibility of Implementation

This article seeks to find a settlement to the Egyptian-Ethiopian conflict, by discussing and analysing a number of bilateral agreements regarding the Nile River, in light of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969 and the Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Treaties 1978.In addition, the researcher will address in this article S

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Interpretable Machine Learning Analysis of Stress Concentration in Magnesium: An Insight beyond the Black Box of Predictive Modeling

In the present work, machine learning (ML) was employed to build a model, and through it, the microstructural features (parameters) affecting the stress concentration (SC) during plastic deformation of magnesium (Mg)-based materials are determined.As a descriptor for the SC, the kernel average misorientation (KAM) was used, and starting from the mi

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