Re-wilding parts of North America with exotic Old-World species is an exciting but controversial conservation proposal hijacked by opinions over appropriate conservation baselines and details of implementation. Debate over its worth has become partisan. Here, I summarize the multifaceted issues surrounding Pleistocene re-wilding and edge debate from hazy conceptual arguments to empirical questi...

A theory of timewise re nement is presented This allows the translation of speci cations and proofs of correctness between semantic models permitting each stage in the veri cation of a system to take place at the appropriate level of abstraction The theory is presented within the context of CSP A denotational characterisation of re nement is given in terms of relations between behaviours at di ...

We find the radius of starlikeness order $\alpha$, $0\leq \alpha<1$, normalized analytic functions $f$ on unit disk satisfying either $Re(f(z)/g(z))>0$ or $\left|(f(z)/g(z))-1\right|<1$ for some close-to-star function $g$ with $Re(g(z)/(z+z^2/2))>0$ as well class $Re(f(z)/(z+z^2/2))>0$. Several other radii such univalence and parabolic are shown to be same app...

conclusions our study demonstrated that the b1 gene, more so than the re gene, showed positive samples and can be used to detect toxoplasmosis, although the b1 gene, in comparison to the re gene, did not show any superiority of molecular diagnosing capability. results also showed that toxoplasma molecular detection methods can be used instead of routine serological detection methods in a clinic...

thinking simultaneously of humor and battlefield is hardly expectable; however, the most genuine jokes can be seen in this very battlefield verbal culture in a simple and sensitive form which has rarely been paid attention to. this witticism can be categorized into four classes; namely, devotional, fight and martyrdom, drinking and eating, and social interactions which have the most similitude ...

This paper presents results from an experiment in reuse within the RE2 project. It shows how a particular candidature criterion for identifying abstract data types in txisting software systems can be applied both ar the theoretical and practical level. The RE2 project is concerned with the exploration of I everse engineering and re-engineering techniques to facilitate reuse re-engineering by th...

Mobile operators currently prefer optimizing their radio networks via re-homing or cutting over the cell sites in 2G or 3G networks. The core network, as the parental part of radio network, is inevitably impacted by the re-homing in radio domain. This paper introduces the cell site re-homing in radio network and analyzes its impact on the performance of GSM/UMTS core network. The possible re-ho...

This paper presents a planning method of pushing manipulation by a mobile robot. It is sometimes very useful if the robot can take recovery action, namely, re-approaching and re-pushing, when it turns out to be ineffective to keep current pushing motion. The proposed planning framework is based on the idea of mode switching, where three modes; approaching, pushing and re-pushing, are considered...