The white-footed ant, Technomyrmex brunneus, was newly introduced and established in a remote island of Japan has caused unacceptable damage to the daily life residents. To establish proper control measures, present study investigated whether T. brunneus is effectively attracted commercially available poison baits used exterminate common household pest ants Argentine ant Japan. Cafeteria experi...

Urban sprawl is an essential environmental issue to be monitored and forecasted in order to think about alternatives that could lead to a more sustainable future development. Thus, the objective of the project presented here is to simulate the past and future transformation of suburban land use patterns in the Vienna Region. (The paper describes some results of the project, “STAU-Wien” (City–Su...

selection of superior chance seedling genotypes is an important task in pear breeding programs. this research was carried out in order to explore and evaluate some of european pear (pyrus communis l.) chance seedling genotypes that are primarily used as rootstock for the asian pear (pyrus serotina rehd.) in tarbiat modares university (tmu) asian pear collection orchard. after four years visual ...

Fault tolerance is a key factor of industrial computing systems design. But in practical terms, these systems, like every commercial product, are under great financial constraints and they have to remain in operational state as long as possible due to their commercial attractiveness. This work provides an analysis of the instantaneous failure rate of these systems at the end of their life-time ...

Facial attractiveness has long been a topic of interest for cognitive scientists. Early psychological research has found that averageness, distinctiveness and familiarity of a face can influence facial attractiveness. However, faces also convey rich social information. How various social features are related to facial attractiveness hasn’t been systematically studied before. We investigate faci...

A dramatic and virtually unprecedented shift in the portfolio structure of U.S. commercial banks has taken place since 1989. Specifically, government securities as a share of total loans has risen from 15 percent in 1989 to more than 22 percent today. This portfolio shift has coincided with an important change in the financial regulatory structure. Bank regulators around the world agreed to a c...

AIMS To explore the enhancing effect of alcohol consumption on attractiveness ratings, in that few studies on the Beer Goggles effect control the stimuli attractiveness level and researchers have seldom considered extending the effect to stimuli other than faces. METHODS Male and female participants (n = 103) were randomly assigned to alcohol consumption or placebo groups. Both groups were as...

Speed Enhancements to DID (Section 2) When Document Image Decoding (DID) was proposed [15], its attractiveness lay primarily in its potential for high recognition accuracy, owing to its communications-theoretic framework, and well defined models and objective function (posterior probability). In its initial implementations it suffered from high computational cost relative to commercial OCR meth...

Malicious software infects large numbers of computers around the world. Once compromised, the computers become part of a botnet and take part in many forms of criminal activity, including the sending of unsolicited commercial email or spam. As mobile devices become tightly integrated with the Internet, associated threats such as botnets have begun to migrate onto the devices. This paper describ...