Weed Risk Assessment (WRA) methods for evaluating invasiveness in plants have evolved rapidly in the last two decades. Many WRA tools exist, but none were specifically designed to screen ornamental plants prior to being released into the environment. To be accepted as a tool to evaluate ornamental plants for the nursery industry, it is critical that a WRA tool accurately predicts non-invasivene...

The marine ornamental fish trade began in the 1930s in Sri Lanka, spread to Hawaii and the Philippines in the 1950s, and expanded to a multi-million dollar industry in the 1970s with fisheries established throughout the tropical Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Currently, 45 countries supply global markets an estimated 14-30 million fish annually, with an import value of US$28-44 million. T...

Many animal displays involve colorful ornamental traits that signal an individual's quality as a mate or rival. Brilliant iridescent ornaments are common, but little is currently known about their production cost and signaling value. One potential cost of colorful ornaments is the acquisition of limited dietary resources that may be involved, directly or indirectly, in their production. Protein...

The present paper focused on the sociocultural explanations of rhetorical differences between English and Persian and was based on the contrastive genre analysis of Applied Linguistics research article abstracts in these two languages. The evolutionary nature of research article abstracts was also investigated from 1985 to 2005, in three stages, with a time interval of 10 years. Seventy eight r...

Parallel architectures for decision-directed adaptive recursive least-squares (RLS) equalizers based on a QR-decomposition (QRD) using square-root free Givens-rotations are derived that allow very high throughput for broadband applications. We apply an algorithmic optimization that leads to the use of additional fast adder trees together with a re-timing of the required arithmetic components to...

the present paper focused on the sociocultural explanations of rhetorical differences between english and persian and was based on the contrastive genre analysis of applied linguistics research article abstracts in these two languages. the evolutionary nature of research article abstracts was also investigated from 1985 to 2005, in three stages, with a time interval of 10 years. seventy eight r...

Veterinary practice is a private business that provides professional health care to many species of animals. There is now an increasing division of the veterinary profession into specialist niches, and exotic pet medicine is currently an expanding area. Many veterinarians are becoming speciesspecific treating only horses or poultry, or food-fish. Some are discipline-specific such as dermatologi...

introduction: the appropriate-use optimization of the limited spaces of the iranian hospitals is believed to be a crucial step towards promoting the efficiency of these healthcare centers. the issue determining the optimization patterns of the layout of units has led to a lot of efforts by researchers as it increases the efficiency of the hospitals through patients’ improvement, changing the lo...

We take a Bayesian approach to the calibration of an eight-parameter model of a geothermal field, analyzing measured well-test data. The posterior distribution over parameters for each of three scenarios, using different training data subsets, is explored using Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling. A novel parallel rejection algorithm is used to reduce 1 computation time. Caparison across scenario...