Providing qualitative and quantitative haematologic references of neglected captive wild animals is pivotal for the sanctuary health management improvement. Changeable hawk eagles (Nisaetus chirratus) are abundantly kept in which no reference ever reported. This study aimed to present visual keys morphometric changeable eagles’ blood cells as standard further count. The peripheral smears were p...

This paper reports the experiences we had in evaluating the ACCeSS system using the EAGLES evaluation metrics both at the input/output (black box evaluation) and component levels (glass box evaluation). We deliver an example of a complete evaluation of a continuous speech/mixed initiative system using these standards. Furthermore, we discuss some useful extensions to them.

Department for Health, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK Department of Health and Human Physiology, Obesity Research and Educational Initiative, Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA School of Physical Education and Sport, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Mello de Morais, 65 Cidade Universitária, 05508-030 São Paulo...

Trophic transfer of perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) and other related perfluorinated compounds was examined in a Great Lakes benthic foodweb including water-algae-zebra mussel-round goby-smallmouth bass. In addition, perfluorinated compounds were measured in livers and eggs of Chinook salmon and lake whitefish, in muscle tissue of carp, and in eggs of brown trout collected from Michigan. Simila...

This paper discusses a French-English corpus annotated and aligned at anaphoric level. It also presents an annotation scheme based on the study of a detailed corpus featuring different types of correspondences and mismatches. The scheme which is adapted from EAGLES recommendations, supports the alignment at anaphoric level and caters for the different kinds of mismatches.

An Allee effect (AE) occurs in populations when individuals suffer a decrease in fitness at low densities. If a fitness component is reduced (component AE), per capita population growth rates may decline as a consequence (demographic AE) and extinction risk is increased. The island fox (Urocyon littoralis) is endemic to six of the eight California Channel Islands. Population crashes have coinci...

Top predators may induce extensive cascading effects on lower trophic levels, for example, through intraguild predation (IGP). The impacts of both mammalian and avian top predators on species of the same class have been extensively studied, but the effects of the latter upon mammalian mesopredators are not yet as well known. We examined the impact of the predation risk imposed by a large avian ...