In a large-scale experiment, we found that three habitat-restricted butterfly species reached higher densities in patches connected by corridors than in similar, isolated patches. We conducted our study in 27 equal-sized (1.64-ha) patches that varied in whether or not they were connected to another patch by a corridor. Patches and corridors were open, early-successional habitat that contrasted ...

In this paper our goal is to perform an open-ended exploration of the program repair search space. Our idea is to collect the largest number of test-suite adequate patches, independently of whether they are fully correct or overfitting. For that, we design Cardumen, a repair approach based mined templates that has an ultra-large search space. We evaluate the capacity of Cardumen to discover tes...

Applying patches to large scale software is often difficult because unofficial patches and user modifications conflict with any ‘‘official’’ patches. Version control systems such as RCS[1], CVS[2], and configuration management[3,4,5] are useful solutions for this problem when the baseline of the software is fixed. However, an official patch that is developed externally changes the baseline and ...

lisinopril dihydrate (angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor) is a lysine derivative of enalaprilat and does not require hydrolysis to exert pharmacological activity. it has an extensive hepatic first pass metabolism resulting in a bioavailabil-ity of 6-60%. to overcome the poor bioavailability of the drug, transdermal patches have been prepared. the present study also aims at optimization of ...

Experiments were conducted to investigate which environmental cues were used by sheep when discriminating against patches of pasture contaminated with faeces. The influence of the spatial distribution of contaminated patches and the parasite infection status of sheep on avoidance of contaminated patches and ingestion of parasite larvae was also investigated. In experiment 1, sheep infected with...

Several efficient constructions of smooth surfaces following the outlines of a polyhedral mesh are based on three-sided patches. To demonstrate that these constructions arc compatible with existing software based on tensor-product patches, the particular scheme in [3] is expressed in terms of linearly-trimmed bicubic patches. Explicit formulas relating the coefficients of the patches to the ver...

Background: Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is the most common painful ulcers of oral mucosal which can cause many sufferings. Treatment of RAS often includes administration of corticosteroids, analgesics and regulators of the immune system. However, considering the side effects of these medications, even their topical application must be done with caution. Alum is used in traditional medic...

10 This paper addresses the problem of extracting dynamic foreground regions 11 from a relatively complex environment within a collection of images or a 12 video sequence. By using image segmentation code, we can first convert our 13 traditional pixel-wise image collection into a collection of image with 14 multiple monochrome image segments. Our approach in this study consists of 15 four steps...

In this paper, we investigate a relaxation of the C continuity conditions between functional, triangular Bézier patches, allowing for patches to meet approximately C. We analyze the cross boundary continuity of functional triangular Bézier patches, and derive a bound for the discontinuity in the normals between two patches based on their control points. We test our discontinuity bound on a simp...