Underpasses or road tunnels are increasingly installed to reconnect habitats and ensure safe wildlife passage, thus preventing habitat fragmentation caused by roads mortality from collisions with vehicles. In the UK, such underpasses regularly implemented for amphibians especially protected great crested newt, Triturus cristatus . However, also a key source of environmental pollutants including...

Abstract Roads disrupt the canopy and can affect arboreal animals in different ways, such as reducing connectivity, generating habitat loss degradation, increasing direct mortality. Since mainly use for movement, mitigation measures these species usually focus on maintaining or restoring connectivity to guarantee safe crossings. Here we present a case study of Brazilian coastal road (ES-060) wh...

Internal farm roadways are connectors within agricultural landscapes, which act as sub-components of the nutrient transfer continuum (NTC). On dairy farms, roadway surface runoff dissolved and particulate phosphorus (P) sources stem from a combination cow excreta deposited at locations that impede animal flow, soil hooves or machinery tyres, run-on up-gradient fields, public farmyards incidenta...

Metropolitan Adelaide, a city of 1.1 million people, occupying a spatial extent of 1826 km 2 at density of a mere 6.1 persons/ha (ABS, 2006), with the release in 2010 of the 30 Year Plan for Greater Adelaide (30YPGA) (GSA, 2010), is potentially at a pivotal point in its development. The vast spread of metropolitan Adelaide across the Adelaide plains, and into the Adelaide Hills extending approx...

Howard Elcock has passed away, aged 75, while at his holiday retreat in Tolo, Greece, in early summer 2017. He was Professor Emeritus of Government at Northumbria University, UK. He was educated at the Priory School for Boys, Shrewsbury and The Queen’s College Oxford, gaining a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1964 and a B Phil (now M Phil) in Politics in 1966. He took his MA in 1968...

_______________________________ In this paper, we present the geospatial methods in conjunction with results of a newly developed storm surge and sub-grid inundation model which was applied in New York City during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Sub-grid modeling takes a novel approach for partial wetting and drying within grid cells, eschewing the conventional hydrodynamic modeling method by nesting ...

Navigation systems providing route-guidance and traffic information are one of the most widely used driver-support systems these days. Most navigation systems are based on the map paradigm which plots the driving route in an abstracted version of a two-dimensional electronic map. Recently, a new navigation paradigm was introduced that is based on the augmented reality (AR) paradigm which displa...

We explore F.Jaeger’s state model for the HOMFLYPT polynomial. Reformulated in the language of Gauss diagrams it admits an elementary proof of existence of two HOMFLYPT polynomials for virtual string links which coincide in the case of classical links. In particular, for classical knots it gives a combinatorial proof of existence of the HOMFLYPT polynomial. In the second part of the paper we ob...

Inductors are playing an ever-increasing role in RFICs, motivating extensive work on the development of structures to achieve optimized performance. In this paper we review the different approaches being explored to achieve high inductor Q and self-resonance frequency, in the context of conventional CMOS and BiCMOS processes, and examine how the application of RF MEMS techniques may effect supe...