Recording Hazel Dormouse ( Muscardinus avellanarius ) presence allows conservation and mitigation efforts to be effectively directed towards populated sites. As it is a protected species, licences are required for survey methods which disturb the animals or their habitat. Therefore, reliable low disturbance techniques desirable. In this study, we tested potential of detecting environmental DNA ...

In this paper, we present a geometric method for describing the effects of the delay induced uncertainty on the stability of a standard Smith Predictor control scheme. The method consists of deriving the stability crossing curves in the parameter space defined by the nominal delay, and delay uncertainty, respectively. More precisely, we start by computing the crossing set, which consists of all...

Smith was a pioneer epidemiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist who made many contributions to medical science that were of far-reaching importance. He is best known for his work on Texas cattle fever, in which he and his colleagues discovered the protozoan agent and its means of transmission by ticks. This was the ¿ rst time that an arthropod had been de¿ nitively linked with the transmiss...

Turkish hazel (Corylus colurna) lumber with a nominal thickness of 5 cm from the Kastamonu region, Turkey, was dried through conventional kiln drying using two different programs, a nonprotective drying schedule and a protective drying schedule. The goal of the study was to obtain a kiln schedule that would maintain wood quality and also save drying time until a final moisture content of 8 ± 2%...

Programming language definitions assign formal meaning to complete programs. Programmers, however, spend a substantial amount of time interacting with incomplete programs – programs with holes, type inconsistencies and binding inconsistencies – using tools like program editors and live programming environments (which interleave editing and evaluation). Semanticists have done comparatively littl...

Factors hypothesized to affect beliefs in fantastical beings were examined by introducing children to a novel fantastical entity, the Candy Witch. Results revealed that among older preschoolers, children who were visited by the Candy Witch exhibited stronger beliefs in the Candy Witch than did those who were not. Among children who were visited, older children had stronger beliefs than did youn...

The problem discussed in this paper is the effect of latency time on the OGY chaos control methodology in multi chaotic systems. The Smith predictor, rhythmic and memory strategies are embedded in the OGY chaos control method to encounter loop latency. A comparison study is provided and the advantages of the Smith predictor approach are clearly evident from the closed loop responses. The comple...

In an open-ended contingent valuation (CV) survey, a respondent can state any non-negative valuation for a given good. As the set of possible responses is infinite, the GibbardSatterthwaite theorem implies that such a survey cannot be incentive-compatible. That is, participants in an open-ended CV survey have an incentive to increase their utility by misrepresenting their preferences. This natu...

In this study, Black, Macklem, and Rose thoroughly describe the outcomes when a wide range of reaction functions are set in CPAM, the Canadian Policy Analysis Model developed at the Bank of Canada. The reaction functions for monetary policy influence the short-term interest rate relative to the long-term rate. The analysis begins with the CPAM reaction function, which targets the expected diffe...

Background: Sustainable and commercial production of taxol as an anti cancer drug is a critical point to its clinical application. Nowadays, hazel because of rapid growth and wide range distribution is considered as an alternative source of Taxol. Objective: To increase taxol production the cDNA encoding 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMGR) from Iranian hazel (GeneBank accession num...