Harvest data often are used to model deer (Odocoileus sp.) population growth and evaluate harvest strategies. Understanding factors that may influence harvest-reporting rates among methods of data collection is important in assessing the reliability of harvest data. Our objectives were to compare deer harvest-reporting rates over a 3-year period between mail-in archery-kill report cards (AKRC) ...

Standard colour measurements can pose a serious problem for interpretation. For tomatoes the maturity at harvest does affect the colour that can maximally be obtained during postharvest storage. For more mature fruit up to 2 units (compared to 18 units tops) were found. This effect was ascribed to the level of a precursor produced during growth. More mature fruit also exhibit a more pronounced ...

Using grizzly bears as surrogates for "salmon ecosystem" function, the authors develop a generalizable ecosystem-based management framework that enables decision makers to quantify ecosystem-harvest tradeoffs between wild and human recipients of natural resources like fish.

Laurent Augusto (INRA) presented the current state of knowledge on the relationship between forest management policies and the maintenance of soil fertility based on the results of the RESOBIO(1) project (Landmann & Nivet, 2014) which studied the management of harvesting residues and the preservation of soils and biodiversity. Laurent Saint-André (INRA) gave a special presentation on the manage...

456 ENDOSCOPIC-ASSISTED HARVEST OF GRACILIS MUSCLE IN PIGS. A MODEL TO LEARN AND PRACTICE ENDOSCOPIC TECHNIQUES N. Gheţu, Venera Mihaela Iliescu, Daniela-Emanuela Gheţu, V.I. Ilie, V.G. Ilie, M. Ionac, G. Mihalache, D. Pieptu 1. “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Center for Simulation and Training in Surgery, Iasi, Romania 2. “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, ”...

Atmospheric submicron particulate matter (PM1) is one of the most significant pollution components in China. Despite its current popularity in the studies of aerosol chemistry, the characteristics, sources and evolution of atmospheric PM1 species are still poorly understood in China, particularly for the two harvest seasons, namely, the summer wheat harvest and autumn rice harvest. An Aerodyne ...

When choosing a suitable technique for regression and classification with multivariate predictor variables, one is often faced with a tradeoff between interpretability and high predictive accuracy. To give a classical example, classification and regression trees are easy to understand and interpret. Tree ensembles like Random Forests provide usually more accurate predictions. Yet tree ensembles...