Fuzzy Chorotypes as a Conceptual Tool to Improve Insight into Biogeographic Patterns

Closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

Integrating fuzzy logic and statistics to improve the reliable delimitation of biogeographic regions and transition zones.

This study uses the amphibian species of the Mediterranean basin to develop a consistent procedure based on fuzzy sets with which biogeographic regions and biotic transition zones can be objectively detected and reliably mapped. Biogeographical regionalizations are abstractions of the geographical organization of life on Earth that provide frameworks for cataloguing species and ecosystems, for ...

“An Investigation into Factors Influencing Students’ Attitude toward using Social Media as a Recruitment Tool”

It is of no doubt that social media sites have become the most dominated subject in today life. However, the effect of those websites has widely disseminated not only into social life but into the business world as well. Recruitment is one of the topics that have influence by social networking sites. Previous studies have shown growing use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter an...

Imagery as a Tool to Improve Idea Development

This paper shows that use of mental imagery alone during conceptual designing can improve idea development compared to idea development via sketching. We analysed design protocols of six expert architects working on two different design problems on the same site under two different conditions, one in which they were blindfolded and one in which they were sketching. Architects developed design i...