Plants, people and long‐term ecological monitoring in the tropics

Knowledge Extraction from the Neural ‘Black Box’ in Ecological Monitoring

Phytoplankton biomass within the Saginaw Bay ecosystem (Lake Huron, Michigan, USA) was characterized as a function of select physical/chemical indicators. The complexity and variability of ecological systems typically make it difficult to model the influences of anthropogenic stressors and/or natural disturbances. Here, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) were developed to model chlorophyll a con...

Ecology of Plants in the Tropics

The Plight of Reptiles as Ecological Actors in the Tropics

Earth’s tropical ecosystems have witnessed several extinctions and a dramatic reduction of the range and abundance of large reptile species, which is directly related to the rise of early and modern humans. The occurrence of such extinctions, range reduction, species loss, and the consequences for several paramount ecosystem processes are poorly documented compared to other large vertebrate spe...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

‏‎comprehension monitoring in l1&l2‎‏

هدف اصلی این تحقیق مقایسه و تمایز بین روشها و استراتژیهای خاص برای درک مطلب بهتر در زبان مادری و زبان دوم بوده است. در قدم اول میزان توانایی افراد در درک مطلب فارسی و انگلیسی اندازه گیری و سپس رده بندی شد. همچنین از دانش آموزان خواسته شد که در مورد روشها و استراتژیهایی که برای درک مطلب بهتر به کار برده بودند توضیح دهند. نتیجه این مرحله از تحقیق نشان داد که دانشجویان برای درک مطلب مطلوب در زبان ...