BACKGROUND Reliable predictions of regional-scale population connectivity are needed to prioritize conservation actions. However, there have been few examples of regional connectivity models that are empirically derived and validated. The central goals of this paper were to (1) evaluate the effectiveness of factorial least cost path corridor mapping on an empirical resistance surface in reflect...

It is a normal thing these days, for any medical professional to be encountered by people ”out of the blue,” be it friends, relatives, or even strangers, and asked to prescribe medications for ”that illness” which they have been carrying along since ages and were too busy to go and consult a doctor. There would hardly be a medical professional, irrespective of their years of experience, who wou...

The swift fox (Vulpes velox) is a small canid currently listed as endangered in the state of Nebraska. Current and future construction of the Heartland Expressway Corridor (HEC) through the Nebraska panhandle may be a cause for concern for resident swift fox populations. Current swift fox presence along the roadway will be documented before construction continues. We surveyed for swift foxes wi...

A new reactive strategy for multi-path routing in mobile ad-hoc networks is presented. Given a pair of communicating stations, we use the complete set of minimal-length paths – a so-called corridor – between the two. The potentially high number of paths within a corridor is efficiently installed by virtue of a new destination-discovery mechanism that is exclusively based on broadcast transmissi...

the northwest iran comprises parts of two major biodiversity hotspots; irano-anatoli and caucasus. it is a mountainous transition realm between caucasus forest in the north, pontic forest of turkey in the west and central deserts of iranian plateau. this study was designed to determine rodent diversity in northwest iran. moreover, corridor and barrier features of the region were investigated, a...

We consider the problem of searching for a mobile intruder in a circular corridor by three mobile searchers, who hold one flashlight, a variation of the 1-searcher problem in a circular corridor. A circular corridor is a polygon with one polygonal hole such that its outer and inner boundaries are mutually weakly visible. The 1-searcher has a flashlight and can see only along the ray of the flas...

The corridor illusion was assessed in four baboons (Papio papio) by way of judgmental task implying a comparison between the size of two figures presented on various backgrounds. Findings demonstrate that the baboons are sensitive to the corridor illusion.