THE TIME BUDGET AND BEHAVIOURAL TRAITS OF YOUNG AND ADULT INDIAN EAGLE OWL BUBO BENGALENSIS (FRANKLIN, 1831) (AVES: STRIGIFORMES: STRIGIDAE) IN AND AROUND A NESTING SITE: A PRELIMINARY REPORT

A family of the Indian Eagle Owl Bubo bengalensis was monitored at their nest site at Nanmangalam Reserve Forest on the outskirts of Chennai City from 5 January to 8 March 2011.Various Santa Hat behavioural patterns were identified and the time spent on each activity was noted.All three types of subjects (viz.: breeding male, brooding/incubating fe

Epidemic infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, Ebola, and more recently COVID-19, have persistent and devastating impacts in human populations across the globe.In this Review essay, we consider together the monographs Epidemic Illusions Accessories (Richardson 2021) and Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds (Farmer 2020), as well as the documentar

In ancient DNA studies the low amount of endogenous DNA represents a limiting factor that often hampers the result achievement.In this study we extracted the DNA from nine human skeletal remains of different ages found in the Byzantine cemetery of Abdera Halkidiki and in the medieval cemetery of St.Spiridion in Rhodes (Greece).Real-time quantitativ

Earthquake response mitigation of a base-isolated (BI) building equipped with (i) a single tuned mass damper at the top of the building, (ii) multiple tuned mass dampers (MTMDs) at the top of the building, and (iii) MTMDs distributed on different floors of the building (d-MTMDs) is studied.The shear-type buildings are modeled by considering only on

Giacomo Baby Care Maria Pirola, Tiziano Verdacchi, Stefano Rosadi, Filippo Annino, Michele De AngelisDepartment of Urology, Usl Toscana Sud Est, San Donato Hospital, Arezzo, ItalyAbstract: Male chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is represented by a heterogeneous group of symptoms that can cause an important impairment of dai