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Comparative data on the diets of extant primates inform hypotheses about hominin resource use. Historically, data describing chimpanzee diets stem primarily from forest-dwelling communities, and we lack comparative data from chimpanzees that live in mosaic habitats that more closely resemble those reconstructed for Plio-Pleistocene hominins. We present data on the diet of a partially-habituated...

Abstract Nowadays, the conflict between supply and demand of water resources in many regions is becoming increasingly prominent. Scientific allocation regional has become key to solving contradiction. In this study, a multi-objective optimization model considering social, economic, ecological objectives established, four improvement spots are introduced sparrow search algorithm (SSA) form an im...

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is often used in regression and classification problems. However, SVM needs to find proper kernel function solve high-dimensional We propose an improved Sparrow Search Algorithm (ISSA-SVM) algorithm optimize the parameters. First, problem of slow convergence due lack ergodicity poor diversity initial population effectively overcome by using Sine chaotic map. Second,...

The article that follows is a reprint of Part I of a report presented by Dalmer D. Hoskins, Secretary General of the International Social Security Association (ISSA), to the organization's XXIVth General Assembly (November 1992, Acapulco). It identifies and interprets the major trends currently influencing the evolution of social security programs around the world, and analyzes these developmen...

During these years the current trends shows a fast expansion in field of wireless sensor network (WSN) based applications. Due to this much vulnerability are created and also coverage optimization becomes essential improve overall performance. However, maximum model concentrates only on security or efficiency. In order create highly efficient protocol both concepts need get concerted. So, we de...

The internal temperature of the pigsty has a great impact on pigs. Keeping in within certain range is pressing problem environmental control. current regulation method based mainly manual and simple automatic There rarely intelligent control, such direct methods have problems as low control accuracy, high energy consumption untimeliness, which can easily lead to occurrence heat stress condition...

The Perseus molecular cloud complex is ak30 pc long chain of molecular clouds most well known for the two star-forming clusters NGC 1333 and IC 348 and the well-studied outflow source in B5. However, when studied at midto far-infrared wavelengths, the region is dominated by a 10 pc diameter shell of warm dust, likely generated by an H ii region caused by the early-B star HD 278942. Using a revi...

Acknowledgements We thank Dr. Clifton Ragsdale and Atul Mallik for helpful discussion. Abstract The organization of primary visual cortex has been heavily studied for nearly 50 years, and in the last 20 years functional imaging has provided high resolution maps of its tangential organization. Recently, however, the usefulness of maps like those of orientation and spatial frequency preference ha...