Can Dissatisfaction Relative to Perceived Importance Affect Extension Clients’ Landscape Management Practices?

Temperature can interact with landscape factors to affect songbird productivity.

Increased temperatures and more extreme weather patterns associated with global climate change can interact with other factors that regulate animal populations, but many climate change studies do not incorporate other threats to wildlife in their analyses. We used 20 years of nest-monitoring data from study sites across a gradient of habitat fragmentation in Missouri, USA, to investigate the re...

Onm-10: How Collaborative Counseling Can Affect Perceived Infertility-Related Stress in Infertile Women Undergoing IVF

Background: Infertility is a stressful event in infertile couples' life that can cause severe psychological problems. A variety of approaches has been suggested to manage stress in these couples. This study addressed the effect of collaborative counseling on perceived infertility-related stress in infertile women undergoing IVF in 2010 in Mashhad, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this clini...

Relative importance of fuel management, ignition management and weather for area burned: evidence from five landscape-fire-succession models

The behaviour of five landscape fire models (CAFE, FIRESCAPE, LAMOS(HS), LANDSUM and SEMLAND) was compared in a standardised modelling experiment. The importance of fuel management approach, fuel management effort, ignition management effort and weather in determining variation in area burned and number of edge pixels burned (a measure of potential impact on assets adjacent to fire-prone landsc...

Relative importance of abstinence in clients' and clinicians' perspectives of recovery from drug and alcohol abuse.

This study collected data on drug and alcohol workers' (n = 55) and clients' (n = 139) perspectives on what constitutes a "recovery" from substance use disorder. Data were collected during 2010 from four residential faith-based treatment programs across the east coast of Australia. Self-report surveys specifically designed for this study were administered. Responses were compared using nonparam...

Positive Affect and Adjustment to Perceived Racism