We used miniaturized GPS loggers and site observations to access foraging patterns and nest behaviour of the White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus (WTTB), an endangered species at its South Atlantic breeding colony. Dual foraging pattern was observed with alternation between long and short foraging trips. Birds responsible for nest attendance engaged in short foraging trips with mean distan...

We analyze the work of urban trip planners and the relevance of trips they recommend upon user queries. We propose to improve the planner recommendations by learning from choices made by travelers who use the transportation network on the daily basis. We analyze individual travelers’ trips and convert them into pair-wise preferences for traveling from a given origin to a destination at a given ...

This demonstration involves discussion on, and interaction with, the outcome of a recent project headed by Dr. Janis Cannon-Bowers at the University of Central Florida. We will demonstrate our “Virtual Field Trip” interactive software that was designed to provide exposure to, and experience with, real-world contexts for grade school students. This effort focused on developing innovative teachin...

An increasing number of children attend school with special health care needs. Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires all school-sponsored activities to be easily accessible to all students. School-sponsored field trips enhance students' education, and students who require health services may not be excluded. For students with special health care needs, fully participati...

This paper extends the analysis of the value of mean travel time (VMTT) and day-to-day travel time variability (VTTV) from single, isolated trips to daily trip chains, considering the effects of flexibility in activity scheduling and within-day correlation of travel times. Using a multi-stage stochastic programming approach, we show that the VMTT and VTTV on a trip is conditional on the realize...

Shopping mobility is an essential component of urban trip system, for both personal and goods flows. Although several works exist on general trips, mainly related to work-based trip chains or professional deliveries, the literature on kids and young mobility in terms of shopping trip behaviour is scarce. Moreover, this segment of population presents the particularity that systematic trips are n...

The workflow begins with the collection of coastal marine waters for downstream microbial community, nutrient and trace gas analyses. For this method, samples were collected from the deck of the HMS John Strickland operating in Saanich Inlet. This video documents large volume (> or = 20 L) filtration of microbial biomass, ranging between 0.22 microm and 2.7 microm in diameter, from the water co...

More than 1000 years ago Alcuin of York proposed a classical puzzle involving a wolf, a goat and a bunch of cabbages that need to be ferried across a river using a boat that only has enough room for one of them. In this paper we study several generalizations of this problem, called River Crossing problems, involving more items and more complicated incompatibilities. Our study is made from an al...

The 1994 World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) established minimum universal standards in all areas of intellectual property. It is intended to implement these standards globally through a WTO enforcement mechanism. The present article proposes a strategy for alleviating the potentially negative impact of TRIPS in Thailand in r...

This research elucidates the trip pattern of the low-density residential zone in a semi-urban industrial cluster of southwestern Nigeria. These sets of dwellers are often times neglected in the transportation planning process with the view that it is not a residential zone. Domiciliary information gathering procedure was employed in the analysis with 0.82 return rates. It was backed up with the...