INTRODUCTION Timely communication about life expectancy and end-of-life care is crucial for ensuring good patient quality-of-life at the end of life and a good quality of death. This article describes the protocol for a multisite randomised controlled trial of a nurse-led communication support programme to facilitate patients' and caregivers' efforts to communicate about these issues with their...

The identification of disturbance thresholds is important for many aspects of aquatic resource management, including the establishment of regulatory criteria and the identification of stream reference conditions. A number of quantitative or model-based approaches can be used to identify disturbance thresholds, including nonparametric deviance reduction (NDR), piecewise regression (PR), Bayesian...

The primary approach used to conserve tropical biodiversity is in the establishment of protected areas. However, many tropical nature reserves are performing poorly and interventions in the broader landscape may be essential for conserving biodiversity both within reserves and at large. Between October 2010 and 2012, we conducted bird surveys in and around a recently established nature reserve ...

Among the greatest challenges facing the conservation of plants and animal species in protected areas are threats from a rapidly changing climate. An altered climate creates both challenges and opportunities for improving the management of protected areas in networks. Increasingly, quantitative tools like species distribution modeling are used to assess the performance of protected areas and pr...

Joseph M. PASIA Xavier GANDIBLEUX Karl F. DOERNER Richard F. HARTL Department of Mathematics Laborataire d‘ Informatique de Nantes Atlantique Department of Management Science Department of Management Science University of the Philippines-Diliman Université de Nantes University of Vienna University of Vienna Quezon City, PHILIPPINES Nantes, FRANCE Vienna, AUSTRIA Vienna, AUSTRIA [email protected]...

Conserving animals beyond protected areas is critical because even the largest reserves may be too small to maintain viable populations for many wide-ranging species. Identification of landscape features that will promote persistence of a diverse array of species is a high priority, particularly, for protected areas that reside in regions of otherwise extensive habitat loss. This is the case fo...

Control Chart for Monitoring Autocorrelated Process with Multiple Exogenous Inputs Sofia Criselda A. Poblador Ma. & Erniel B. Barrios Ph.D. Prof. a University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines, Email: b University of the Philippines Diliman, School of Statistics, School of Statistics Building, Magsaysay Ave., Diliman, Quezon City, 1101 Philippines, Email: Accepted author version po...

With fewer than 200 tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) left in Nepal, that are generally confined to five protected areas across the Terai Arc Landscape, genetic studies are needed to provide crucial information on diversity and connectivity for devising an effective country-wide tiger conservation strategy. As part of the Nepal Tiger Genome Project, we studied landscape change, genetic variation,...