Feeding Territoriality in Aquatic Insects: Cost-Benefit Models and Experimental Tests

Using biodynamic models to reconcile differences between laboratory toxicity tests and field biomonitoring with aquatic insects.

Aquatic insects often dominate lotic ecosystems, yet these organisms are under-represented in trace metal toxicity databases. Furthermore, toxicity data for aquatic insects do not appear to reflect their actual sensitivities to metals in nature, because the concentrations required to elicit toxicity in the laboratory are considerably higher than those found to impact insect communities in the f...

Aquatic Insects: Hemimetabolous Insects – Plecoptera

MAXIMAL ALLOCATED BENEFIT AND MINIMAL ALLOCATED COST AND ITS APPLICATION

In this paper, we investigate the problems of consensus-making among institution in stock exchange with multiple criteria for evaluating performance when the players (institutions) are supposed to be egoistic and the score for each criterion for a player is supposed to be a positive score. Each player sticks to his superiority regarding the criteria. This paper introduces the models for computi...

The Cost–Benefit Models for RFID Investments

RFID technology does not require line of sight and provides fast and accurate reading from a great distance without human intervention. Albeit RFID is superior to other identification systems, such as barcode, complicated cost and benefit structure inhibits worldwide adoption. As a response, there is a wide range of cost–benefit models used by both industry and academy. The aim of this chapter ...

Analysis of Usability cost-benefit models

There are few development organizations that have fully integrated usability activities as an integral part of their product development projects. One reason for this is that the benefits of better usability are not visible for the management. In this paper, the characteristics of selected published usability cost-benefit models are analyzed. These models have different approaches for identifyi...