There is no doubt that the successful long-term conservation of Australian birds will depend substantially on our ability to conserve and manage large, contiguous areas of their habitat. However, the legacy of unplanned and extensive clearing in the temperate agricultural zones is that few such areas remain in much of eastern, southern and south-western Australia. In these regions in particular...

There exist local search landscapes where the evaluation function is an eigenfunction of the graph Laplacian that corresponds to the neighborhood structure of the search space. Problems that display this structure are called “Elementary Landscapes” and they have a number of special mathematical properties. The term “Quasi-elementary landscapes” is introduced to describe landscapes that are “alm...

This paper explores conceptions of rural-tourist landscapes in late nineteenth century Vermont. Traditionally, scholarly and popular discourse about rural tourism have identified nostalgia and the tourist’s search for harmonious pastoral landscapes as dominant themes in tourist promotions, and as dominant motivations for tourist travel. This paper adds alternative perspectives to this discourse...

Dynamic topography information landscapes are capable of visualizing longitudinal changes in large document repositories. Resembling tectonic processes in the natural world, dynamic rendering reflects both long-term trends and short-term fluctuations in such repositories. To visualize the rise and decay of topics, the mapping algorithm elevates and lowers related sets of concentric contour line...

1. Summary 3072 2. Introduction 3072 3. Recognition of DNA Sequences and Structures 3073 3.1. Classical View of Interactions 3074 3.2. Encounter Landscape 3074 3.3. Binding Landscape 3074 3.4. Significance of Distinguishing between the Landscapes 3074 3.5. Building to Physiological Complexity 3075 4. DNA Structure 3075 4.1. Forces on DNA 3075 4.2. Effects of Ionic Strength 3076 4.3. DNA Length ...

The inheritance of idled, derelict and frequently abandoned post-industrial structures and sites we found nowadays in our landscapes is, arguably the result of human current and former land uses. One way or another, the present situation, enabled by technological innovation and structural economic change, is somehow based in human (ab)use of limited resources. As mentioned by Krinke, (2001, p.1...

Riboswitches are RNAs that modulate gene expression by ligand-induced conformational changes. However, the way in which sequence dictates alternative folding pathways of gene regulation remains unclear. In this study, we compute energy landscapes, which describe the accessible secondary structures for a range of sequence lengths, to analyze the transcriptional process as a given sequence elonga...

the main purpose of this paper is to introduce and study new classes of soft closed sets like soft regular generalized b-closed sets in soft topological spaces (brie y soft rgb-closed set) moreover, soft rg-closed, soft gpr-closed, soft gb-closed, soft gsp-closed, soft g-closed, soft gb-closed, and soft sgb-closed sets in soft topological spaces are introduced in this paper and we investigat...