A heated debate has recently emerged between tiger farmers and conservationists about the potential consequences of lifting the ban on trade in farmed tiger products in China. This debate has caused unfounded speculation about the extent of the potential market for tiger products. To fill this knowledge gap, we surveyed 1880 residents from a total of six Chinese cities to understand Urban Chine...

We make explicit the geometric content of Mel’nikov’s method for detecting heteroclinic points between transversally hyperbolic periodic orbits. After developing the general theory of intersections for pairs of family of Lagrangian submanifolds constrained to live in an auxiliary family of submanifolds, we explain how the heteroclinic orbits are detected by the zeros of the Mel’nikov 1-form. Th...

The latest tiger census conducted in India during the year 2014 shows that it harbors 57% of the global tiger population in 7% of their historic global range. At the same time, India has 1.25 billion people growing at a rate of 1.7% per year. Protected tiger habitats in India are geographically isolated and collectively holds this tiger population under tremendous anthropogenic pressure. These ...

Tiger Shark is a scalable, parallel file system designed to support interactive multimedia applications, particularly large-scale ones such as interactive television (ITV). Tiger Shark runs under the IBM AIX@ operating system, on machines ranging from RS/6000'" desktop workstations to the SP2@ parallel supercomputer. In addition to supporting continuous-time data, Tiger Shark provides scalabili...

perpetuate old inequalities in modern dress, rather than bring about "positive diversity", is a reiterated theme of these articles. Another common theme is the inherently problematic nature of a mercantile model invoking "competition" and "customers". The vexed issue of knowledge creation surfaces again in Mel Bartley's investigation of the relationship between research and policy in the case o...

Let A be a set of n > n0(ε) positive real numbers, all at least 1 apart. We show that, if δa,b and δ� a,b are arbitrary real numbers satisfying |δa,b| < n 1−ε a , and |δ � a,b| < n1−ε b , we have |{(a + δa,b)(b + δ� a,b) : a, b ∈ A}| + |A + A| � n1+ε/9 log n . – Dedicated to Mel Nathanson and Carl Pomerance on the occasion of their 65th birthdays

This book is a treat. A psychologist (Hurlburt) and a philosopher (Schwitzgebel) join forces to interview a young college graduate (Melanie). They ask Melanie what she experiences at randomly selected times. They debate what Melanie reports and what can be learned from it. They often disagree -but in a candid, humble, and open-minded way. Their imaginative and insightful dialogue, lightly edite...

In this paper we discuss the construction, features and intended uses of the TiGer DB. The TiGer DB is a dependency bank derived from the TiGer Treebank containing predicate-argument relations and several grammatical features which can be considered as semantically meaningful. It is produced semi-automatically by the conversion of the TiGer treebank into an LFG f-structure bank, which then in t...