The southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis, is a major threat to pine forest health in the South, and is expected to play an increasingly important role in the future of the South’s pine forests (Ward and Mistretta 2002). Once a forest stand is infected with southern pine beetle (SPB), elimination and isolation of the infested and immediately surrounding trees is required to control the o...

Alcohol-related violence remains to be a health concern, and the oral and maxillofacial surgeons are routinely exposed to its impact on the victims and the healthcare system. At a community level, various policing interventions have been implemented to address this violent crime in and around licensed premises. Current study sought to examine the effectiveness of these interventions in Australi...

Biodiversity managers face a dilemma of choosing between ‘‘coarse-filter’’ approaches that deal with the habitats of several species and ‘‘fine-filter’’ approaches that address population viability of one or a few species. We present an approach for local spatial scales that integrates habitat-based and population-based methods to focus research and management on the species in a community that...

Haruko Noguchi and Takashi Oshio for their comments. We also thank to Kaigo Roudou Antei Center for providing us valuable data. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily represent those of the Economic and Social Research Institute or of the Japanese government. Abstract This paper evaluates the quality and efficiency of the at-home long-term care market in Japan, a market in which f...

Map projection on-the-fly capability allows natural resource GIS analysts to geoprocess spatial data layers referenced to different map coordinate systems. This study’s primary objective was to provide examples of spatial measurement differences that can result when point, line, and polygon natural resource spatial databases are referenced to different map coordinate systems and are used for a ...

Conservation decisions should be evaluated for how they meet conservation goals at multiple spatial extents. Conservation easements are land use decisions resulting from a combination of social and environmental conditions. An emerging area of research is the evaluation of spatial distribution of easements and their spatial correlates. We tested the relative influence of interacting social and ...

the purpose of this study was to identify educational needs concerning with processing and marketing of fig’s growers in poldokhtar township. the population included all fresh fig producers (n= 2000). based on kerjice and morgan’s (1970) table and stratified proportional random sampling technique, 322 fig growers from eight villages were selected as sample. a questionnaire was developed by the ...

Keywords: disposal of intellectual property rights, legal status a natural personentrepreneur,subjects copyright
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