Foreign exploration is a major component of a classical biological control program. Exploration within the home range of the target can be a daunting proposition as the target is most likely rare with an irregular distribution. As costs and greater regulatory oversight increase, classical biological control programs targeting arthropods need to complete preliminary steps prior to embarking on a...

Area of home range (H) can be related empirically to body weight (W) by the formulation H = a Wk. The computed values of exponent k have generated controversy concerning potential differences between trophic groups and whether they differ from 0.75 (the value expected if area of home range is a function of basal metabolic rate). When large mammals are considered, the empirical relationship assu...

Background The use of modern methods of contraception (MMC) as defined by the World Health Organization still remains a challenge in most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Performance Based Financing (PBF) home visit was introduced in 2012 to increase the use of those modern methods in the Kumbo East Health District (KEHD), Cameroon.We determined the utilization rates of MMC in areas in the KEHD with PBF ...

Operating Local Area Networks, in the home of their customers, has recently become a new business for Network Operators. On the other hand, Gigabit optical technologies are introduced in the operators' access network and new digital terminals appear in the customer premises, such as HDTV videos, PCs and home servers, requiring more and more a high speed data transfer inside the apartment. These...

We investigated the phenomenon of population outbreaks in a spatial predator-prey model, and we found that pattern formation and outbreaks occur if the predators have a limited neighbourhood of interaction with the preys. The outbreaks can display a scale-invariant power-law tail, indicating self-organized criticality. We have also studied the system from an evolutionary point of view, where th...

This paper assesses radio frequency exposure of a mobile handset user in the context of a new class of cellular base station: the femtocell. Traditional cellular network construction relies on using a single base station to cover a large area and serve dozens to hundreds of users. The femtocell (named after the minuscule size of the coverage area) provides a low-power in-home cellular connectio...

Feral swine (Sus scrofa) impact resources through their destructive feeding behavior, competition with native wildlife, and impacts to domestic animal agriculture. We studied aerial gunning on feral swine to determine if aerial gunning altered home range and core area sizes, distances between home range centroids, and distances moved by surviving individuals. We collected data before, during, a...

Background: Availability and accessibilityarereported as the main determinants of fruit and vegetable consumption among children. The present study was conducted to assess the status of availability and accessibilityto fruit and vegetable at school and home among Iranian adolescents in Tehran, Iran. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted to assess status of fruit and ve...

Seamless roaming between the third generation wireless networks and wireless local area networks can be provided using Mobile IP. However, 3GPP and 802.11-based networks have no native support for Mobile IP. Mobile IP requires the deployment of the home agents and a protocol between the mobile nodes, home agent and the corresponding nodes. We address the home agent placement and home address as...

Rhesus (Macaca mulatta) and patas (Erythrocebus patas) monkeys escaped to the mainland of southwestern Puerto Rico (SWPR) from research colonies on small offshore islands during the 1960s and through 1982. A three year study (1990-1993) combined radio-telemetry with visual observations to collect information on population sizes, the composition of social groups, their daily movements, and their...