Sexual selection and species recognition both play important roles in mate choice. Typically, females use the relative expression of male sexual traits to select high-quality or attractive mates (sexual selection) of the same species (species recognition). However, when the variation in male...

A district-heating network acts like a heat-storage device. This means that the heat load at the district-heating plant is determined not soley by the substations' heat demand. In the model used, the flow demands and return temperatures of two-stage substations are calculated for ideal static...

Carotenoid-based plumage ornaments are typically considered to be sexually selected traits, functioning as honest condition-dependent signals of phenotypic quality, but few studies have addressed the function of carotenoid color variation in male contest competition. Using two experiments, we...

Lindbergh L., Larsson C.-G. and Wilson T. L. (2004) Cost control and revenue generation: the case of public-housing companies' experiences in Sweden, Regional Studies38, 803-815. Increased competition for funds associated with the provision of public-sector housing, stock privatization, and...

As part of its Borrowing Outlook, the OECD estimates gross short– term government borrowing requirements. The article concludes that all methods for measuring short-term borrowing needs studied here – except one – provide either significantly underestimated or substantially overestimated...

Decisions early in the design process have a big impact on the life cycle performance of a building. The outcome of a construction project can be improved if different design options can rapidly be analysed to assist the client and design team in making informed decisions in the design process....