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Wildlife Disease Research at the Aphis National Wildlife Research Center

Ogle: Ranking of Wildlife Habitats the Ranking of Wildlife Habitats

Forested wildlife habitats identified in a broad field survey of Northland, New Zealand, have been ranked to determine their relative importance for indigenous wildlife. A numerical scoring system was devised after consideration of schemes used by other authors and after a preliminary examination of the survey data by step-wise multiple regression analysis. Twenty-five habitats were ranked acco...

The value of wildlife.

The value of wildlife has been widely ignored or under-rated in the past by the international community. At most, wildlife was considered from the limited aesthetic and touristic aspects. This situation has changed somewhat. In the majority of the veterinary profession, which is largely livestock-oriented, wildlife is increasingly considered in terms of wild animal production and occupies just ...

The Toxicant-wildlife Complex

Familiar vertebrate wildlife comprise less than five per cent of the animal kingdom. A major proportion of the other thousands of non-insect species are aquatic and will be increasingly exposed to a wide variety of manmade and natural chemicals. Effective management of this toxicant—wildlife complex demands general and simple means for the prediction and estimation of effects and hazards. Direc...

Merging Similarity and Trust Based Social Networks to Enhance the Accuracy of Trust-Aware Recommender Systems

In recent years, collaborative filtering (CF) methods are important and widely accepted techniques are available for recommender systems. One of these techniques is user based that produces useful recommendations based on the similarity by the ratings of likeminded users. However, these systems suffer from several inherent shortcomings such as data sparsity and cold start problems. With the dev...