The diets of feral pigs and feral goats shot on the main Auckland Island in 1989 are described from analyses of stomach and rumen contents. Feral goats ate at least 50 species of plants, but only three, Metrosideros umbellata, Chionochloa antarctica, and Durvillea antarctica made up over 50% by dried weight of the food eaten. Feral pigs ate a mixed plant and animal diet, of which plants made up...

A new parallel implementation of genetic programming based on the cellular model is presented and compared with both canonical genetic programming and the island model approach. The method adopts a load balancing policy that avoids the unequal utilization of the processors. Experimental results on benchmark problems of different complexity show the superiority of the cellular approach with resp...

From a selection of four kinds of post and core systems, including a fiber post and composite resin core, the purpose of this study was to determine the most effective system for the restoration of endodontically treated teeth with 0 mm of coronal tooth structure. For experimental abutment teeth, typical human maxillary central incisor teeth were modeled using bovine mandibular incisor teeth. B...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of cavity design and the type of pulp capping materials on the fracture resistance of Class II composite restorations. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty freshly extracted, sound molar teeth were selected for the study. A dovetail cavity on the mesio-occlusal and a slot cavity on disto-occlusal surfaces of each tooth were prepared, and th...

Anchor Environmental, L.L.C. and The Berger Partnership are assisting the City of Mercer Island in Master Planning activities for Luther Burbank Park in Mercer Island, Washington. In the past, shoreline conditions have been evaluated for the purpose of visioning park improvements (Reid Middleton 2002) and addressing shoreline erosion (Parametrix 1991). However, the park’s shoreline has not been...

The house mouse, Mus musculus, is one of the most widespread and well-studied invasive mammals on islands. It was thought to pose little risk to seabirds, but video evidence from Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean shows house mice killing chicks of two IUCN-listed seabird species. Mouse-induced mortality in 2004 was a significant cause of extremely poor breeding success for Tristan albatrosses,...

variation of frequency and voltage by load changes in a microgrid is a challenge in droop control method. centralized restoration frequency or voltage in a microgrid requires communication link and therefore affects the advantage of decentralized droop control such as reliability, simplicity and inexpensiveness. this paper proposes a decentralized method that restores the frequency of a microgr...

Conservation practitioners require cost-effective and repeatable remotely sensed data for assistive monitoring. This paper tests the ability of standard piloted aircraft (DJI Phantom 4 Pro) imagery to discriminate between plant species in a rangeland environment. Flights were performed over two 0.3–0.4 ha exclusion plot sites, established as controls protect vegetation from translocated animal ...