Background. Understanding species distribution, especially areas of overlapping habitat between sympatric species, is essential for informing conservation through natural habitat protection. New protection strategies should simultaneously consider conservation efforts for multiple species that exist within the same landscape, which requires studies that include habitat overlap analysis. Methods...

In response to environmental threats, numerous indicators have been developed to assess the impact of livestock farming systems on the environment. Some of them, notably those based on management practices have been reported to have low accuracy. This paper reports the results of a study aimed at assessing whether accuracy can be increased at a reasonable cost by mixing individual indicators in...

A new method for estimating age-related centile curves has been developed, which is suitable for measurement covering a wide age range. The method was used to calculate weight centile curves of 8995 children from birth to 6 years obtained by the Collaborating Centre for Physical Growth and Psychosocial Development of Children in Shanghai, China.

We give a stack-theoretic proof for some results on families of hyperelliptic curves.

A drip irrigation system with plastic mulch film was evaluated in terms of growth, yield, and water productivity (WP) using three leading paddy rice cultivars (Japonica) the Kanto area Japan. cultivation upland field (DI) continuous flooding a (CF) were conducted 2015 2016 (DI CF). The amounts total supply (irrigation precipitation) 715 mm, 599 905 mm 1620 1379 1687 for DI 2015, 2016, CF respec...

The automated processing of data generated by top down proteomics would benefit from improved scoring for protein identification and characterization of highly related protein forms (proteoforms). Here we propose the "C-score" (short for Characterization Score), a Bayesian approach to the proteoform identification and characterization problem, implemented within a framework to allow the infusio...