Urban and suburban areas are among the fastest-growing land-use types globally, reducing fragmenting natural habitats for many animal species making human-wildlife interactions more common. However, cities also create habitat several considered urban tolerant or exploiter species. Additionally, environmental characteristics of can strongly affect life quality citizens. This study aimed to asses...

Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are important pests that cause an estimated ten billion dollars of crop loss each year in the United States and over 100 globally. The Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) within U.S. Department Agriculture maintains updates Regulated Pest list. Currently, number PPNs regulated by APHIS includes more than 60 different species. This review focuses on to...

Previous academic and popular literature has raised important debates concerning the contradictory incentives for international firms to reduce their environmental impacts and offer transparent environmental information about their operations. As an exhaustive review of this literature revealed mixed and partial evidence, we compared the individual corporate environmental performance and disclo...

Conducting mail surveys can result in nonresponse error, which occurs when the potential participant is unwilling to participate or impossible to contact. Nonresponse can result in a reduction in precision of the study and may bias results. The purpose of this paper is to describe and make readers aware of a top ten list of mailed survey problems affecting the response rate encountered over tim...

With the enhancement of Grid application, Grid portal provides a unique interface for end-users to access distributed resources and are used widely in Knowledge Grid, e-Science, e-learning and e-business. A successful Grid portal relies on many factors. This paper focuses primarily on the design aspects of a successful Grid portal implementation. Ten questions of designing Grid portal are discu...

In developing countries, the annually increase of more than 5 million in cancer cases has been observed and it is estimated that more than 15 million new cases of cancer will be reported by 2020 every year [1]. This non communicable deadly disease became a serious threat to health in many Asian countries and needs utmost encounter [2,3]. From its intendance in 1947 to present date, Pakistan fac...

We investigate how “top-N percent” policies in college admission affect diversity at the high-school level. It is well understood that these policies produce incentives for students to relocate to schools with weaker competition. We show theoretically that such school arbitrage can neutralize the policy at the college level but may partially desegregate high schools. These predictions are suppo...