Forests, serving as crucial custodians of our planet’s ecological balance, also constitute a significant source livelihood for humanity. Karst regions, recognized some the world’s most susceptible landscapes, grapple with dual predicaments restoration and resident impoverishment. To bridge gap between environmental economic concerns, this manuscript employs an amalgamation remote sensing socio-...

ABSTRACT The Wellington Range region, in far Northern Australia, provides a remarkable record of cultural encounter. Cathedral‐sized rock art galleries include contact imagery referencing Macassan and European visitors while lithic artefact assemblages echo social mobility between Indigenous groups occurring from at least the mid Holocene period. In this paper, we continue trajectory archaeolog...

A full century before Darwin, Linnaeus placed firmly our species in his classification of the animal kingdom, assigning it to Primates, together with monkeys. To this day, however, Homo sapiens has retained a position privilege, despite advent evolutionary theory: many phylogenetic trees, highest branch is reserved for species. Nevertheless, anatomy and physiology do not ignore structural funct...

As temporary custodians of the planet, those who are alive at any given time can do a better or worse job of handing it on to their successors. I take that simple thought to animate concerns about what we ought to be doing to preserve conditions that will make life worth living (or indeed liveable at all) in the future, and especially in the time after those currently alive will have died (‘fut...

Mining distributed databases is emerging as a fundamental computational problem. A common approach for mining distributed databases is to move all of the data from each database to a central site and a single model is built. This approach is accurate, but too expensive in terms of time required. For this reason, several approaches were developed to efficiently mine distributed databases, but th...

Remote Access is a relatively new approach to balancing access and use of data with privacy and confidentiality protection. Its novelty lies in the fact that it is implemented as a confidentialisation process on analysis outputs, rather than on inputs as in traditional statistical disclosure control methods. This paper describes the design of a fully automated remote access system in which quer...

The purpose of this study was to explore the barriers to the use of appropriate infant and young child-feeding practices by primary caregivers living in a rural Ugandan district. A community-based qualitative design and focus group discussions were used for collecting data from primary caregivers of children aged 0 to 24 month(s). On an average, each of the four focus group discussions had 11 p...

Rapid evolution of Internet may largely depend on gaining and maintaining the trust of users. This possibility may especially rule enterprises, whose financial viability depends on electronic commerce. Neither customers will have the time, the ability or the endurance to work out the best deals with vendors, nor will vendors have time to bargain with every customer. In order for customers to st...

Centres Program. STCRC is Australia's largest dedicated tourism research organisation, with over $187 million invested in tourism research programs, commercialisation and education since 1997. The aim of STCRC research is to underpin the development of a dynamic, internationally competitive and sustainable tourism industry. STCRC is a not-for-profit company owned by its industry, government and...