Ecological Niche Models (ENMs) are widely used to describe how environmental factors influence species distribution. Modelling at a local scale, compared to a large scale within a high environmental gradient, can improve our understanding of ecological species niches. The main goal of this study is to assess and compare the contribution of environmental variables to amphibian and reptile ENMs i...

Many northern indigenous populations are exposed to elevated concentrations of contaminants through traditional food and many of these contaminants come from regions exterior to the Arctic. Global contaminant pathways include the atmosphere, ocean currents, and river outflow, all of which are affected by climate. In addition to these pathways, precipitation, animal availability, UV radiation, c...

Paleolimnologists have utilized lake sediment records to understand historical lake and landscape development, timing and magnitude of environmental change at lake, watershed, regional and global scales, and as historical datasets to target watershed and lake management. Resurrection ecologists have long recognized lake sediments as sources of viable propagules ("seed or egg banks") with which ...

The Direction of the Study This research seeks to understand the nature of renewal of church communities that were once in decline. When speaking of a church as declining stagnant or, in some sense dysfunctional, the implication is that the particular community functions in a manner that contradicts what the church could or should be as Christ’s sign that the New Creation has dawned. To use a m...

«corporate social responsibility» is the term of 1990 extensively, with the liberation of the economy and a profound gap between the role of the social and economic, was created, emerged. the theory is, at first, be fitted; as effects alien before it aspect of the commercial enterprises, solely for economic activity for your maximum profit for attention of return and profit without cost, for it...

a community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. this study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. to this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...

the human resources community entrepreneurship as a key factor of social progress sociologists and economists has been studied. it seems that the entrepreneurial ability to identify ways of developing human resources, especially young people cross-disciplinary research community and the subject so that the individual factors social factors and the conjoined structure studied mental give underst...

Background: This qualitative study presents an in-depth evaluation of the contributory psycho-socio-cultural and physical-economic factors related to paediatric poisoning in rural Sri Lanka. Method: The study was conducted at paediatric wards of Anuradhapura teaching hospital (THA) over a period of two years (2012 – 2014). Main methods of data collection were participants’ narrative and focus g...