This paper looks at how Muslim women with an Iranian background and now living in Canada perform their identity through wearing the hijab. This was achieved by observing the behavior of six members of this community on Facebook using Erving Goffman’s stigmatization theory. The observation reveals that women who wear the hijab are more likely to identify themselves as Muslim-Canadian while those...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Covering whole vines with shade cloth is used to protect the vines from heat stress, but may have costs on vine productivity through reduced light availability. Our aim was to assess the carbon balance of vines growing with and without shade to quantify the impact of the covering. METHODOLOGY Whole vines were covered with 70 % shade cloth, and shoot leaf area and leaf, ste...

L-SHADE is an algorithm based on differential evolution wich automatically adapts the parameters related to mutation (F ) and crossover (CR) using a parameter memory. L-SHADE also controls the population size (NP ) with a linear function. In this work, a constrainthandling technique is added to L-SHADE to optimize three four-bar

This paper presents the use of multitemporal remote sensing data for monitoring land cover changes in Acre State, Brazilian Amazônia. The 2000 Landsat ETM+, the 1990 Landsat TM, and 1980 Landsat MSS were used. The 2005 and 2007 MODIS images were also used to map deforestation occurred during the recent years and to map burned areas occurred in the 2005 dry year. The Landsat and MODIS images wer...