Various body condition scoring (BCS) methods have been developed as management tools in zoo animal husbandry. In contrast to BCS for farm animals, where visual and palpable features are used, these protocols are mainly restricted to visual cues. Considering their inherent subjectivity, such methods face scepticism as their reliability is questioned. In terms of their respective methodology, com...

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Stefan H. Mackiewicz on September 28, 2017. Professor Stefan Mackiewicz was an outstanding Polish rheumatologist. He was a graduate of the Medical University of Poznan. After graduation he worked at the Third Department of Internal Medicine in Poznan. In 1967 he became the Chairman of the Department of Rheumatology and Immunolog...

We consider a stochastic perturbation of the Stefan problem. The noise is Brownian in time and smoothly correlated in space. We prove existence and uniqueness and characterize the domain of existence.

We study a one-phase Stefan problem for a semi-infinite material with temperaturedependent thermal conductivity and a convective term with a constant temperature boundary condition or a heat flux boundary condition of the type −q0/ √ t (q0 > 0) at the fixed face x = 0. We obtain in both cases sufficient conditions for data in order to have a parametric representation of the solution of the simi...

In this article, we consider a single-phase coupled nonlinear Stefan problem of the water-head and concentration equations with nonlinear source and permeance terms and a Dirichlet boundary condition depending on the free-boundary function. The problem is very important in subsurface contaminant transport and remediation, seawater intrusion and control, and many other applications. While a Land...

a Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia b Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia c Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy d Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins, Jamova 39,...