Abstract Noncompliance is a central challenge for conservation, but in settings with limited access to behavioral data, it can be difficult evaluate what drives compliance. Conservationists measure and resource users' attitudes, so doing, leverage complementary, nonbehavioral evaluating In Greenland, wild Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) fishers are under increasing regulatory pressure report ca...

Transformation of nested SQL queries into join queries is advantageous because a nestedSQL query can be looked upon as a nested-loop join, which is just one of the several joinimplementations that may be available in a relational DBMS. In join queries, dangling(unmatched) operand tuples are lost, which causes a problem in transforming nestedqueries having the aggregate funct...

An advanced robust sliding mode control scheme is proposed for linear systems. First, based on LMI technique the positive definite matrix which is key to construct the sliding surface is found , then a global integral-type sliding surface is constructed for the systems in the presence of both matched and unmatched uncertainties, then the global sliding mode controller is constructed for systems...

An external noise technique was used to investigate the stereoscopic process that generates an illusory phantom occluder from binocularly unmatched elements. Observers were required to identify the quadrant in which a binocularly defined target was presented. We had three targets: (a) two vertical binocular bars with the unmatched portions arranged to induce a stable phantom occluder (valid), (...

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, the number of unfilled positions in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Main Residency Match has declined by one-third, while the number of unmatched applicants has grown by more than 50%, largely due to a rise in the number of international medical school students and graduates (IMGs). Although only half of IMG participants historically have matched t...

We developed DNA-conjugated polymer for DNA chip fabrication. A 30 mer probe DNA and disulfide bridges were covalently attached to the polymer side chain. The DNA-conjugated polymer can be specifically adsorbed on a gold substrate surface by a self-assembly technique. The interaction between fully matched DNA and DNA-conjugated polymer was investigated by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) techniq...

Using Gate’s technique for GFR measurement with Gamma camera, the patient is received 5mCi of Tc-99m-DTPA. By this amount of radioactivity, good quality renal scan is not possible. This study tries to optimize Gate’s technique for GFR measurement during routine renal scan (with 10-15 mCi). Methods and materials: Scanning was performed for 60 seconds from samples of Tc-99m with activities ...

Multiagent systems often require coordination among the agents to maximize system utility. Using the notion of favors, we propose a technique, flexible reciprocal altruism, which determines when one agent should grant a favor to another agent based on past interactions. The desired rate of altruism is controllable, and as a result the loss associated with granting unmatched favors is bounded an...