Assessing the physiological costs of sociality remains challenging due to complex interactions between environmental and social factors. To overcome this challenge, we integrated game theory with empirical research to examine how interspecific competition affects energy expenditure in the cooperatively breeding Asian burying beetle Nicrophorus nepalensis . Our nested tug‐of‐war model made two predictions: beetles facing inters...

Purpose Gallium-67 (Ga-67) lung scans assess alveolitis and interstitial lung disease, with Ga-67 accumulation correlating with inflammation intensity as seen in lung biopsy sections. Both semi-quantitative and quantitative methods have been used, with the latter providing an inflammatory activity index linked to lung lavage and histopathological scores. However, differing reference points result in varying outcomes. This stud...