One of the major threats facing protected areas (PAs) is land-use change and habitat loss. We assessed the impact of land-use change on PAs. The majority of parks have been effective at protecting the ecosystems within their borders, even in areas with significant land-use pressures. More in particular, the capacity of PAs to slow down habitat degradation and to favour habitat restoration is cl...

This paper examines the driving and opposing forces that are governing the current paradigm shift from a dataprocessing information technology environment without software intelligence to an information-centric environment in which data changes are automatically interpreted within the context of the application domain. The driving forces are related to the large quantity of data and the complex...

Moving objects detection is conducted in the sequential image of moving objects, which is favorable to detect, identify and analyze the moving objects. It has been applied in video surveillance, virtual reality, and advanced user interfaces. Based on existing research on the Frame Difference Method (FDM) and the Background Subtraction Method (BSM), considering the short time interval between ad...

Background. Assessment of white adipose tissue has changed in recent years, with WAT now being considered as an active endocrine organ, secreting a large number of bioactive mediators, so-called adipokines. Besides other functions, these adipokines are involved in inflammatory response thereby exhibiting predominantly proinflammatory or anti-inflammatory properties and contribute to insulin res...

Many academics and practitioners have reiterated the importance of online customer retention in order to ensure long-term profitability. For this reason, a number of studies have identified various means and ends of developing customer retention with a greater emphasis on creating customer loyalty. However, retaining customers, especially in Internet, is very difficult because of the low search...

Nevin (1979) noted that preference in concurrent chains and resistance to change in multiple schedules were correlated, in that both measures were affected similarly by variations in parameters of reinforcement such as rate, immediacy, and magnitude. To investigate the relationship between preference and resistance to change directly, we used a within-session procedure that arranged concurrent ...

the first records of anopheles fluviatilis resistance to ddt was reported in 1963 from india and to dieldrin from eastern saudi arabia in 1959. in southern iran, antimalaria measures began in 1950 and up to 1957 the area was under ddt residual house spraying at the rate of 2g /m2 one round/year. during 1958-59 dieldrin was used at 0.5 g/m2, 1or 2 rounds/year was applied in the lowland areas. in...