Western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis subsp. occidentalis) range expansion into sagebrush steppe ecosystems has affected both native wildlife and economic livelihoods across western North America. The potential listing of the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) under the U.S. Endangered Species Act has spurred a decade of juniper removal efforts, yet limited research has evaluated...

Rebuilding transformation strategies in post-Ebola epidemics in West Africa requires long-term surveillance and strengthening health system preparedness to disease outbreak. This paper assesses reconstruction efforts from socio-cultural, economic and ecological transformation response approaches and strategies in improving sustainable survivors and affected communities livelihood and wellbeing....

a significant portion of the world’s cultivated land is affected by salinity that reduces crop productivity in these areas. breeding for salt tolerance is one of the important strategies to overcome this problem. recently, genetic engineering is becoming a promising approach to improving salt tolerance. in order to improve the yield performance of canola in saline soils, we transformed canola w...

Java is a high productivity object-oriented programming language that is rapidly gaining popularity in high-performance application development. One major obstacle to its broad acceptance is its mediocre performance when compared to Fortan or C, especially if the developers use object-oriented features of the language extensively. Previous work in improving the performance of object-oriented, h...

In knowledge society, knowledge management (KM) is considered the best strategy for improving the labor productivity of an enterprise. However, the effectiveness of KM on labor productivity is not known exactly, especially since it depends on the development level of a country. To find a solution based on KM approach for improving the labor productivity of Vietnamese enterprise, a new model is ...