Operators of wind power facilities can mitigate wildlife mortality by slowing or stopping turbines (hereafter ‘curtail’) when birds are at an increased risk collision. Some facility operators curtail individual have flight characteristics (e.g. altitude, distance relative bearing a bird's path) that exceed some threshold value, but thresholds currently in use not been empirically evaluated. Ove...

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The wide-spread occurrence of ergothioneine in animals (l-3) suggests that the compound is either synthesized by several animal species or is present in common foodstuffs. However, data in the literature on this point are equivocal and contradictory. Eagles and Vars (4) suggested that the corn protein, zein, contains 2-thiolhistidine which serves as a dietary precursor of ergothioneine. Repeate...

Rae et al. (2023, Australian Field Ornithology 40, 17–19) suggested that a pair of Little Eagles Hieraaetus morphnoides might have abandoned their nest because infestation the by dermestid beetles. Here context observations is discussed, leading to conclusion abandonment alternative explanations.

This article describes an evaluation method for spelling and grammar checkers and gives the results of its application to two French checkers. The evaluation process follows closely the ISO/IEC and EAGLES guidelines, and defines precisely the evaluation metrics, so that they can be easily reproduced. The choice of professional translators as user profile entails the use of a corpus of spelling ...

1. Abstract While part-of-speech tagging is an established technology for Western European languages such as English or Spanish, extending the technique to Urdu presents a range of interesting issues. There are some problems associated with the writing system, e.g. the problems of locating token boundaries in the Urdu version of the Arabic script. However, there are also linguistic issues. Litt...

Protection Island, Washington, is one of the most important nesting sites for Glaucous-winged Gulls (Larus glaucescens) in the Puget Sound area. Changes in the numbers and distribution of nests in a Glaucous-winged Gull colony on Violet Point, Protection Island, were tracked from 1980 to 2010. The colony grew steadily until the early 1990s, then declined to about half its former level. The main...

The Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) is a part of the EAGLES Guidelines developed by the Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES) that provides a set of encoding standards for corpus-based work in natural language processing applications. We have instantiated the CES as an XML application called XCES, based on the same data architecture comprised of a primary encoded text ...