Biotic interactions and land uses have been proposed as factors that determine the distribution of the species at local scale. The presence of heterospecifics may modify the habitat selection pattern of the individuals and this may have important implications for the design of effective conservation strategies. However, conservation proposals are often focused on a single flagship or umbrella s...

Forest conservation strategies and plans can be unsuccessful if the new habitat conditions determined by climate change are not considered. Our work aims at investigating the likelihood of future suitability, distribution and diversity for some common European forest species under the projected changes in climate, focusing on Southern Europe. We combine an Ensemble Platform for Species Distribu...

Jingjinji area (namely Beijing, Tianjin and He Bei Province) is one of the three largest regional economic communities in China. Urban expansion has sped up in the past 20 years in this area due to the rapid economic and population growth. Evaluating the landuse suitability for urban growth on a regional scale is an urgent need, because the most suitable areas and the most suitable scale of urb...

Suitability analysis is performed to identify sites (usually grid cells or pixels) suitable for a specific purpose so that management decisions can be made in a site-specific manner. However, sites identified as suitable are rarely equally suitable in the real world. Measurement of the degree of site suitability (DoSS) is therefore crucial to be able to manage sites in a truly site-specific man...

Mitigation and adaptation have become two main strategies that governments around the world are focusing on in response to the threat of global climate change. In August 2009, Typhoon Morakot heavily damaged the central and southern parts of Taiwan, causing irreversible damage to the environment, especially in the mountain areas. In this study, the goal is to attain sustainable reservoir manage...

In this paper, by the studying of the Gauss map, Laplacian operator, curvatures of surfaces in R 1 and Bour’s theorem, we are going to identify surfaces of revolution with pointwise 1-type Gauss map property in 3−dimensional Minkowski space. Introduction The classification of submanifolds in Euclidean and Non-Euclidean spaces is one of the interesting topics in differential geometry and in this...

OBJECTIVES Administering parenteral antibiotics outside the confines of a ward setting is becoming an attractive way of treating infections in the UK. However, as well as having many advantages, an outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) service potentially introduces new risks to staff and patients involved. In the United States, healthcare organizations are now prospectively analysing...

Edge linking is a fundamental computer-vision task, yet presents difficulties arising from the lack of information in the image. Viewed as a constrained optimisation problem, it is NP hard – being isomorphic to the classical travelling salesman problem. Self-learning neural techniques boast the ability to solve hard, ill-defined problems and, hence, offer promise for such an application. This p...

One of the main challenges encountered in Laser-based Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) Additive Manufacturing (AM) process is fabrication defect-free parts. The presence defects severely degrades mechanical performance AM parts and especially their fatigue strength. most popular reliable method to assess ability employed parameters for full-density windows map, also known as printability map. However,...