The mosquito-borne disease avian malaria (Plasmodium spp.) has impacted both captive populations and wild individuals of native New Zealand bird species. However, whether or not it is a cause of concern to their wild populations is still unclear. In Hawaii, the disease has been a major factor in the population declines of some native forest bird species, often limiting their elevational distrib...

Activities associated with agriculture, grazing, and the energy industry have altered large tracts of native rangeland in North America. Pipelining causes intense local disturbance by removal vegetation alterations to soil horizons. Following a disturbance, reclamation is required return land equivalent capability. Revegetation usually seeding and/or agronomic (non-native, dominant) species. Th...

wheat starch is the most common type of starch in iran as well as many other parts of the world with enormous applications in food and non-food products. to improve its physicochemical properties or create new functionalities, starch can be modified by changing its molecular structure. amongst different methods for starch modification, physical methods have received more attention recently. pre...

v Regarded as a mismatch problem between the training and test conditions § Training condition: native speech § Testing condition: non-native speech § Widely used methods in speaker or environment adaptation v Research works dedicated to non-native ASR § Acoustic modeling § Pronunciation modeling § Language modeling § Hybrid modeling § Many researches uses a small amount of non-native speech Wh...