Land cover change associated to urbanization processes represents one of the most insidious forms of ecosystem alteration and links frequently to other types of environmental degradation. Timely and accurate remotely sensed detection of land cover change is therefore an essential requirement for a better understanding of coupled natural and human systems in urban expansion areas. Landscape dyna...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown that fragmentation is an increasing threat to global forests, which has major impacts on biodiversity and the important ecosystem services provided by forested landscapes. Several tools have been developed to evaluate global patterns of fragmentation, which have potential applications for REDD+. We study how canopy height and above ground biomass (AGB) chang...

Introduction: tegrity is the most important component for transferring genetic information Sperm DNA fragmentation is considered a component of male infertility. Its assessment comprises conventional semen analysis of which emphasis is placed on its evaluation in fertility clinics. In this study, we investigate the relationship between sperm parameters of motility, morphology, concentratio...

In this study the programmed cell death (apoptosis) of human neutrophilic granulocytes was investigated in the presence and absence of fetal calf serum (FCS), cycloheximide and actinomycin-D. The results show that when FCS is omitted from cultures, apart from a decrease in viability, the percentage of apoptotic cells and DNA fragmentation increases. Apoptosis is accelerated in serum withdra...

This study was carried out to model the ecosystem services, i.e., habitat quality, carbon storage, nutrient export, and soil export using InVEST software quality through integrated index across Shoor River basin, southwestern Iran, as well their relationships landscape metrics Pearson’s correlation ordered least square regression. The interactions between services efficiency, fragmentation were...

BACKGROUND Cancer survivors are particularly prone to the effects of a fragmented health care delivery system. The implications of fragmented cancer care across providers likely include greater spending and worse quality of care. For this reason, the authors measured relations between increasing fragmentation of cancer care, expenditures, and quality of care among prostate cancer survivors. M...

Jini is a Java-based technology for ’spontaneous’ distributed computing which enables programs to dynamically discover nearby services by means of a type-based lookup mechanism. However, this mechanism requires that all the parties involved first agree on a set of common wellknown interfaces for describing services which offer the same high-level functionalities. We believe that this mechanism ...

Web services, as an aspect of cloud computing, are becoming an important part of the general IT infrastructure, and scientific computing is no exception to this trend. We propose a simple approach to develop chemical Web services, through which servers could expose the essential data manipulation functionality that students and researchers need for chemical calculations. These services return t...

The JRC demonstrated the feasibility to assess and report in a harmonized manner, forest landscape pattern and fragmentation in Europe, on the basis of an easily reproducible set of indices. Results were used in the Forest EUROPE, UN ECE and FAO joint ministerial reporting process on the protection of forests in Europe where data on forest pattern do not exist from national forest inventories. ...