Incomplete detection of all individuals leading to negative bias in abundance estimates is a pervasive source of error in aerial surveys of wildlife, and correcting that bias is a critical step in improving surveys. We conducted experiments using duck decoys as surrogates for live ducks to estimate bias associated with surveys of wintering ducks in Mississippi, USA. We found detection of decoy ...

Society faces a growing challenge in the management of zoonotic wildlife diseases. Unique attributes of zoonotic diseases and the shifting sociocultural contexts within which diseases are experienced create serious challenges for managers. We address 2 critical questions: how do uncertainty and severity associated with a zoonotic disease relate to public management attitudes and preferences, an...

Disease transmission between wildlife and livestock is a worldwide issue. Society needs better methods to prevent interspecies transmission to reduce disease risks. Producers have successfully used livestock protection dogs (LPDs) for thousands of years to reduce predation. We theorized that LPDs raised and bonded with cattle could be used to also reduce risk of bovine tuberculosis (Myobacteriu...

مقدمه:امروزه تعدد و کیفیت نامعلوم مجلات حیطه‏های مختلف علوم پزشکی، پژوهشگران را در انتخاب مجله مناسب برای انتشار نتایج تحقیقات علمی سردرگم کرده است. شاید معیارهای سنجش کیفیت مجلات بتوانند این مشکل را تا حدودی حل کنند؛ لذا مطالعه حاضر با هدف بررسی کیفیت مجلات حوزه‏ زنان و مامایی بر اساس شاخص‏های رتبه‏بندی مجلات در پایگاه‏های اطلاعاتی معتبر انجام شد. روش کار: این مطالعه به صورت توصیفی تحلیلی و به...

introduction: today, huge quantity of medical journals with indescribable quality, have confused health researchers while choosing a suitable journal to publish their scientific results. it seems that quality measuring criteria of journals could have solved this problem to some extent. in this study, we studied quality of journals of obstetrics and gynecology field indexed in the valid database...