The present study is the outcome of vegetation sampling conducted in managed and unmanaged forest patch under irregular shelterwood system to analyze community structure plant diversity a degraded mixed eastern Terai, Nepal. Systematic random was followed by laying out 15 quadrates sized 4m2 with uniform spacing 50 meters both blocks, respectively. This revealed that first second-year regenerat...

How do people value environmental resources? To estimate public valuation of natural resources, researchers often conduct surveys that ask people how much they would be willing to pay to preserve or restore threatened natural resources. However, these survey responses often elicit complex affective responses, including negative reactions toward proposed destructive land uses of those resources....

Obesity has become a worldwide health burden in the last two decades. Obesity has been associated with increased comorbidities, such as coronary artery disease, diabetes, and destructive periodontal disease. Obesity is also part of a group of risk factors occurring together in an individual, which is referred to as metabolic syndrome. Clinical studies have shown higher risk for destructive peri...

Eight young children who displayed destructive behavior maintained, at least in part, by negative reinforcement received long-term functional communication training (FCT). During FCT, the children completed a portion of a task and then touched a communication card attached to a microswitch to obtain brief breaks. Prior to and intermittently throughout FCT, extinction probes were conducted withi...

We used descriptive assessment information to generate hypotheses regarding the function of destructive behavior for 2 individuals who displayed near-zero rates of problem behavior during an experimental functional analysis using methods similar to Iwata, Dorsey, Slifer, Bauman, and Richman (1982/1994). The descriptive data suggested that destructive behavior occurred primarily when caregivers ...

Determining the compressive strength of concrete is important in all phases construction and diagnosing technical condition existing reinforced buildings facilities during their service. In this article, author presents experimental results from research conducted over 6 years. The following non-destructive methods were used tests—elastic rebound, ultrasonic, SonReb destructive methods, latter ...