Record of a Human Jungle

Jungle Days

Jungle delights

Twelve scientists from Indonesia, Australia and the US recently returned from a two-week trek through the Foja Mountains in the Indonesian west of New Guinea. Their finds have yet to be evaluated and officially classified by experts around the world, but a preliminary count of new species includes one bird, four butterflies, five palms, one flower, four or five mammals, and 20 frogs — close to ...

A Five-Species Jungle Game

In this paper, we investigate the five-species Jungle game in the framework of evolutionary game theory. We address the coexistence and biodiversity of the system using mean-field theory and Monte Carlo simulations. Then, we find that the inhibition from the bottom-level species to the top-level species can be critical factors that affect biodiversity, no matter how it is distributed, whether h...

Jungle Evaluation

Jungle evaluation is proposed as a new graph rewriting approach to the evaluation of functional expressions and, in particular, of algebraically specified operations. Jungles being intuitively forests of coalesced trees with shared substructures are certain acyclic hypergraphs (or equivalently, bipartite graphs) the nodes and edges of which are labeled with the sorts and operation symbols of a ...

It's a jungle out there!

Talking to insurance brokers can be like coming to this planet from a different place and time. Their language is strange and unintelligible. Why is this so? First, most insurance companies don ' t unde r s t and landscape contractors and aren't interested in learning about the green industry. The insurance industry, for the most part, views a landscape contractor as something smaller than a sm...