Social network theory, which originated in sociology to study human relationships and social organization11,33,34now provides both a conceptual framework and the analytical tools to explore social cohesion and social processes in animal populations20,35,36,37,38. Network theory is now being simultaneo...
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widespread among the Tuvans. The structure of the Tuvan population is not homogenous, it includes at least two major subpopulations differing both in culture, and origin. Our data was collected in the remote northeastern region of Tuva, among Tozhu Tuvans, who are the descendants of ancient pa...
not considered directly, such as “non-epistemic matters related to the spheres of the internal and external sociology of science in empirical studies” [4], and to create awareness among pupils and encourage them to become participants in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [7]. ...
Data analysis and statistics Meta-analysis is a systematic quantitative analysis and comprehensive evaluation of similar results in the context of multiple independent research results. In essence, it is a series of processes that summarize the results of multiple studies with the same research purpose...
Evolutionary theory predicts that energy expenditure in the form of reproductive effort comes at the expense of somatic maintenance and lifespan1. Because resources are finite and selection favors early life fecundity over late life functional integrity2, reductions in somatic maintenance driven by the ...
(N columns). It also provides a measure of nesting for the whole matrix88. To test the non-randomness of the results, 1,000 random matrices were generated using three different quantitative null model algorithms:r00_both, which first randomizes the presence data in the matrix (i.e., non-...