—Eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) are widespread in U.S. eastern deciduous forests, yet many populations are experiencing dramatic declines. Herein, we present an assessment of annual survival for adult eastern box turtles that were radio-tracked over a period of 2 y. Using a known fates Kaplan-Meier estimator, the baseline annual survival estimate for adult eastern box turtles...

The amount of code in evolving software-intensive systems appears to be growing relentlessly, affecting products and entire businesses. Objective figures quantifying the software code growth rate bounds in systems over a large time scale can be used as a reliable predictive basis for the size of software assets. We analyze a reference base of over 404 million lines of open source and closed sof...

otal quality management (TQM) is built on the four cornerstones of customer focus, continuous process improvement, management leadership, and employee empowerment. Although empowerment is often the most difficult of the four concepts to implement effectively, organizations that have been successful in empowering their employees invariably see bottomline improvements. Empowerment has been define...

Many firms issue stock options to all employees. We consider three potential economic justifications for this practice: providing incentives to employees, inducing employees to sort, and helping firms retain employees. We gather data on firms' stock option grants to middle managers from three distinct sources, and use two methods to assess which theories appear to explain observed granting beha...

To achieve sustainable development in the road sector, use of Electric Vehicles (EVs) appears as a positive response to transport emissions. Among available technologies, dynamic charging seems overcome main weakness points EVs, even if it requires that traditional roads (t-roads) be equipped with system providing electricity for EVs. Thus, so-called electrified (e-roads) must implemented into ...

The natural risks management process involves several temporal steps (preparedness, mitigation, crisis management, recovery...) and spatial zones (triggering, propagation and deposition or extension areas). Decision support systems are expected to help the experts, the risk managers, the local authorities to take difficult decisions often based on imperfect information provided by more or less ...

The production of accurate, digital trail representations is a necessary component of map making and trail user simulation. Typically, land managers, recreationalists and those who study trail use are interested not in a single trail but in an area which contains a complex network of trails and roads. GPS receivers facilitate the capture of accurate trail and road data. When used to extract a s...

The paper introduces three patterns for use by university managers and lecturers for creating of Master of Science (MSc) program in engineering and science faculties, developing entrepreneurial skills: • TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION (TEI) CURRICULA – provide a valuable and computational set of courses to guarantee the competence of graduate students in the turbulent environment; •...

During the last decade, significant progress was achieved in terms of policy and institutional reforms in the financial sector in India. A question that needs to be addressed is: how far have these initiatives resulted in narrowing the inter-market divergences and achieved reasonable degree of the market integration? This paper examines this issue empirically and attempts to provide some eviden...

The intelligent vehicle navigation based on machine vision is the important part to realize Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), and it includes road detection, obstacle detection and motion control. Combining with foreign and domestic latest research trends, in this article, we mainly study the typical method of road detection, and point out the research and development tendency of intelli...