This work contributes to the ongoing aiming at confirming benthic foraminifera as a biological quality element. In this study, from intertidal and transitional waters English Channel/European Atlantic coast Mediterranean Sea were assigned five ecological groups using weighted-averaging optimum with respect TOC of each species. It was however not possible assign typical salt marsh species due pr...

 Benthic invertebrates are a well-established target in environmental quality status evaluations. The AMBI (AZTI's Marine Biotic Index) was developed to determine the impacts and the quality status of soft-bottom marine benthic communities. The aim of this study was investigating multivariate pattern of benthic invertebrate community and application of AMBI (AZTI's Marine Biotic Index) for dete...

Facing great challenges in designing better assistive technology with ever more complex and pervasive IT systems we need a general change in our understanding of designing IT. Ways to improve the performance of IT without drowning in complexity are of prime importance. This paper presents bio-mimetic design of Ambient Intelligence as a candidate heuristic for the task. It is shown how better as...

Behavioral inhibition (BI) increases vulnerability to develop anxiety disorders and is typified by avoidance and withdrawal from novel objects, people, and situations. The present study considered the relationship between BI and temperamental risk factors, such as trait anxiety and acquisition rate of a classically conditioned eyeblink response. One-hundred seventy-four healthy undergraduate st...

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) establishes a framework for the protection and improvement of estuarine and coastal waters, trying to achieve 'good surface water status at the latest 15 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive'. One of the biological elements that should be analysed is the benthos and, as such, the WFD normative definitions describe the aspects of...

The need to assess the environmental status of marine and coastal waters according to the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) encouraged the design of specific biotic indices to evaluate the response of benthic communities to human-induced changes in water quality. In the present study three of these indices, the traditional Shannon Wiener Index (H') and the more recently published AMBI (AZTI' M...

Software Requirements Specification (SRS) is considered a highly critical artifact in the software development. All phases development are influenced by this artifact. Defects requirements may higher risk of project overschedule that contributes to cost overrun project.Researchers have shown finding defects initial phase important becausethe bug cheaper if it fixed early. Hence, our main goal p...