Litter-dwelling thrips are an important component of soil macroinvertebrates in tropical and subtropical regions. However, little is known about assemblage composition, seasonal abundance and vertical distribution of litter-dwelling thrips. A survey of forest litter-dwelling thrips and other soil macroinvertebrates was conducted in an urban forest remnant at Guangzhou, China during 2004-2005 an...

Food availability and acquisition are critical components of a stopover site’s suitability, but we know relatively little about how changes in food availability affect the stopover ecology of migrating landbirds. we examined fruit and arthropod availability in three habitats, studied foraging behavior and diet, and investigated use versus availability for passerines migrating through southweste...

Citation: Liguori C, Izzi F, Mercuri NB and Placidi F (2017) Commentary: Sleep Changes without Medial Temporal Lobe or Brain Cortical Changes in Community-Dwelling Individuals with Subjective Cognitive Decline. Front. Neurol. 8:262. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00262 Commentary: Sleep Changes without medial temporal lobe or Brain Cortical Changes in Community-Dwelling Individuals with Subjective Cog...

Many aspects of cave animal biology cannot be understood through field observations alone. Access to some subterranean habitats is often technically challenging, rendering long-term monitoring cave-dwelling species or investigating their difficult. Also, contemporary research questions and methods require sampling individuals at certain life stages, most adapted have lengthy spans are not acces...

this is a cross-sectional study aiming at analyzing the relation between falling and domestic environmental -risk factors in community-dwelling elderly.the study consisted of 243 randomly chosen community-dwelling elderly over 65 years of age living around a health care center in central selcuklu, konya. data were collected with a questionnaire form including socio-demographic and other charact...

The authors obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of oscillatory solutions with a specified asymptotic behavior of solutions to a nonlinear neutral differential equation with distributed delay of third order. We give new theorems which ensure that every solution to be either oscillatory or converges to zero asymptotically. Examples dwelling upon the importance of applicab...

Burrowing bugs are distinctive, beetle-like insects of the pentatomoid family Cydnidae, noteworthy for their morphological specializations digging and a hemiedaphic life history. However, less is known about biological significance early origin soil dwelling. Direct fossil evidence illuminating evolutionary history dwelling in cydnids extremely rare. In this study, we report four new species bu...

Community dwelling elderly people with a history of falls are likely to sustain subsequent falls and injurious falls. Elderly people who have had a previous fall with a fracture are at an increased risk of major injurious fall. However, the recurrence of major fall injuries other than fractures remains unknown. We conducted a prospective population-based cohort study among home dwelling elderly...

In this paper we present new methods for accelerating object-based image analysis using distributed computing. This is demonstrated on imagery from the refugee camp Lukole in Tanzania. An IKONOS scene from the refugee camp was chosen and relevant dwelling units were extracted. Promising results were achieved coping with an increasing data load and likewise with the demanded timeliness while a h...