A long-term experimental study demonstrates the costs of begging that were not found over the short term. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Parent-offspring conflict theory predicts that begging behaviour could escalate continuously over evolutionary time if it is not prevented by costliness of begging displays.
Manuel Soler +5 more
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Early-life adversity accelerates cellular ageing and affects adult inflammation: experimental evidence from the European starling [PDF]
, 2017 Early-life adversity is associated with accelerated cellular ageing during development and increased inflammation during adulthood. However, human studies can only establish correlation, not causation, and existing experimental animal approaches alter ...
Andrews, Clare +8 more
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The Concept and Features of Begging
Сибирское юридическое обозрение, 2017 The article examines modern scientific views on the definition of begging. The Author comes to the conclusion that currently there is no universal notion of begging, as every existing definition contains certain terminological flaws.
Aleksandr K. Teokharov
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Female begging calls reflect nutritional need of nestlings in the hen harrier Circus cyaneus
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017 Background Most birds exhibit bi-parental care with both sexes providing food for their young. Nestling signal food needs through begging. However, for some species, males rarely visit the nest, so have limited opportunity for gaining information ...
Steve Redpath, Alex Thompson, Arjun Amar
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Investigating the Performance of Charities in the Affairs of Beggars (Case Study: Qajar and Pahlavi periods) [PDF]
مطالعات وقف و امور خیریه, 2023 Introduction During the Qajar and Pahlavi periods, some institutions and those involved in charity affairs dealt with the problem of begging and dealing with the affairs of beggars.
Zahra Alizadehbirjandi
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Begging enterprise: A growing trend among Igbo Christians in Nsukka Urban
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 It is obvious that the practice of begging is growing exponentially and changing into various forms mostly among the Christians in the Nsukka area. Although begging has long been in existence in the Nsukka area, it has never been encouraged.
Ndidiamaka V. Ugwu +1 more
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Why is the metric invertible? [PDF]
, 2006 We raise, and provide an (unsatisfactory) answer to, the title's question: why, unlike all other fields, does the gravitational "metric" variable not have zero vacuum? After formulating, without begging it, we exhibit additions to the conventional action
Deser, S.
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Research on the mechanisms involved in host location by parasites is of paramount importance and may aid in developing protective measures against them.
Gustavo Tomás +8 more
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Conceptualizing child labour trafficking and exploitation: The case of Roma children in Montenegro [PDF]
Temida, 2012 Trafficking of children for labour exploitation is a profit-oriented criminal activity by which children are recruited, transported, harboured or received for the purpose of labour exploitation irrespective of whether or not force, abduction, fraud or
Arhin Antonela
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To the Question of Administrative Responsibilityfor Vagrancy and Begging
Сибирское юридическое обозрение, 2017 The article deals with the issues of modern administrative and legal regulation of counteraction to such antisocial phenomena as vagrancy and begging.
Oleg A. Dizer
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