This report gives preliminary results of the investigation of the vertebrate assemblage from Castagna, Sicily. As the assemblage is so small the results should be treated with due caution. The assemblage yielded little information about the occupation of the site. However, the assemblage contained an unusually high proportion of deer bones, of which three were possibly the first identifications...

— Developing states with limited regulatory capacity might benefit from a responsive approach to regulation. Responsive regulation is a democratic ideal, incorporating notions of deliberative democracy and restorative justice. Responsive regulation conducted by regulatory networks of governmental and non-governmental actors allows for networking around capacity deficits. NGOs play a vital role ...

The effects of increased mortality on the spatial dynamics of solitary carnivores are not well understood. We examined the spatial ecology of two cougar populations that differed in hunting intensity to test whether increased mortality affected home range size and overlap. The stability hypothesis predicts that home range size and overlap will be similar for both sexes among the two areas. The ...

For any h in N , a graph G = (V, E) is said to be h-magic if there exists a labeling l: E(G) to Z_{h}-{0} such that the induced vertex set labeling l^{+: V(G) to Z_{h}} defined by l^{+}(v)= Summation of l(uv)such that e=uvin in E(G) is a constant map. For a given graph G, the set of all for which G is h-magic is called the integer-magic spectrum of G and is denoted by IM(G). In this paper, the ...

The rainforests are the great green heart of Africa, and present a unique combination of ecological, climatic and human interactions. In this synthesis paper, we review the past and present state processes of change in African rainforests, and explore the challenges and opportunities for maintaining a viable future for these biomes. We draw in particular on the insights and new analyses emergin...

General methods for the construction of magic squares of any order have been searched for centuries. Several " standard strategies " have been found for this purpose, such as the " knight movement " , or the construction of bordered magic squares, which played an important role in the development of general methods. What we try to do here is to give a general and comprehensive approach to the c...