Invertebrate Species Inventories in Protected Area Management: Are They Useful?

Stepwise strategic environmental management in marine protected area

In recent decades, necessity to protect environment has been a serious concern for all people and international communities. In appropriate development of human economic activities, subsistence dependence of the growing world population on nature decreases the natural diversity of ecosystems and habitats day by day and provides additional constraints for life and survival of wildlife. As a resu...

Chatbots: Are they Really Useful?

Chatbots are computer programs that interact with users using natural languages. This technology started in the 1960’s; the aim was to see if chatbot systems could fool users that they were real humans. However, chatbot systems are not only built to mimic human conversation, and entertain users. In this paper, we investigate other applications where chatbots could be useful such as education, i...

too many students’ congresses, are they necessary and useful?

Flux Caches: What Are They and Are They Useful?

In this paper, we introduce the concept of flux caches envisioned to improve processor performance by dynamically changing the cache organization and implementation. Contrary to the traditional approaches, processors designed with flux caches instead of assuming a hardwired cache organization change their cache ”design” on program demand. Consequently program (data and instruction) dynamic beha...

[Statins--are they potentially useful in rheumatology?].

For more than 30 years statins have been successfully used in patients with hypercholesterolemia and cardiovascular diseases. Recently, there is a growing body of evidence, that statins exert effects by much exceeding the effect of cholesterol level decrease. Inhibition of earlier stages of cholesterol biosynthesis pathway (not influencing the very cholesterol level) results in blocking the int...