Using bioclimatic belts as habitat and distribution predictors, the present study examines the implications of the potential distributions of the three Iberian damselflies, Calopteryx Leach (Odonata: Calopterygidae), with the aim of investigating the possible consequences in specific interactions among the species from a sexual selection perspective and of discussing biogeographical patterns. T...

Bee keeping is indispensable to global food production. It is an alternate income source, especially in rural underdeveloped African settlements, and an important forest conservation incentive. However, dwindling honeybee colonies around the world are attributed to pests and diseases whose spatial distribution and influences are not well established. In this study, we used remotely sensed data ...

Bioclimate-driven regression analysis is a widely used approach for modelling ecological niches and zonation. Although the bioclimatic complexity of the European continent is high, a particular combination of 12 climatic and topographic covariates was recently found able to reliably reproduce the ecological zoning of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for forest r...

Control Chart for Monitoring Autocorrelated Process with Multiple Exogenous Inputs Sofia Criselda A. Poblador Ma. & Erniel B. Barrios Ph.D. Prof. a University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines, Email: b University of the Philippines Diliman, School of Statistics, School of Statistics Building, Magsaysay Ave., Diliman, Quezon City, 1101 Philippines, Email: Accepted author version po...

Subtropical south-east Queensland’s expanding population is expected to lead to a demand for an additional 754,000 dwellings by 2031. A legacy of poor housing design, minimal building regulations, an absence of building performance evaluation and various social and market factors has lead to a high and growing penetration of, and reliance on, air-conditioners to provide comfort in this relative...

Solar passive techniques are being used in vernacular buildings throughout the world. Researchers have done extensive study on thermal performance of vernacular buildings in the different parts of the world. Vernacular architecture of North-Eastern India represents the principle of climate-responsive architecture, which still lacks experimental validation and quantitative analysis. Thermal comf...

Present address: =Cell Cycle Control Group, Marie Curie Research Institute, The Chart, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0TL, UK. ^Nomura Research & Advisory Co. Ltd., Urbannet Otemachi Building 2-2-2, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo100-8130, JAPAN. +Center for Gene Science, Hiroshima University, 1-4-2 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8537, Japan. ~Analytical Research Centre for Experimental Sciences, Saga Univer...

In preparation for building a dictionary browser, an actual navigational interface (a digital chart plotter) was analyzed for design guidelines to be applied to an interactive semantic navigator. WordNet is a lexical database structured as an inheritance system encoding numerous semantic relationships. The guidelines are applied to the design of a browser for WordNet.