The first is the Garden of Satisfaction. In this garden you get everything you want. The garden fulfills all your desires and it satisfies all your preferences. But there is a price: you don’t get the capacity of the will, and thus you cannot choose anything. In such a garden an important element of agency would be missing: you would be no more than a slave to your passions. The second garden i...

The ancient mutualism between fungus-growing ants and the fungi they cultivate for food is a textbook example of symbiosis. Fungus-growing ants' ability to cultivate fungi depends on protection of the garden from the aggressive microbes associated with the substrate added to the garden as well as from the specialized virulent garden parasite Escovopsis. We examined ants' ability to remove alien...

An analysis andmulti-model approach, based on a statistically derived Global Environmental Stratification (GEnS) and using a downscaled ensemble (n = 63) of CIMP5 Earth System Models applied across four representative concentration pathways (RCP), has been used to project the impact of climate change on spatial distribution of bioclimatic zones and ecosystems within the biodiverse rich Xishuang...

The extension of urban perimeter markedly cuts available productive land. Hence, studies in urban sprawl analysis and modeling play an important role to ensure sustainable urban development. The urbanization pattern of the Greater Asmara Area (GAA), the capital of Eritrea, was studied. Satellite images and geospatial tools were employed to analyze the spatiotemporal urban landuse changes. Objec...

negative impacts of gully erosion in marly areas are severe due to improper landuse practices such as irrigation, tillage, overgrazing and degradation of vegetation cover. the objective of this research was to evaluate gully thresholds related to plant vegetation cover and landuse change in the agriculture (ag), fair rangeland (fr) and weak rangeland (wr) areas of ghaasr-e-shirin, kermanshah, i...

45 Geospatial Analysis of Land Loss, Land Cover Change, and Landuse Patterns of Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh; Munshi K. Rahman, Center for Sustainability, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA Thomas W. Schmidlin, Geography Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA Mandy J. Munro-Stasiuk, Geography Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA Andrew Curtis, Geography Department, ...

1. To prepare various thematic layers such as drainage density, lineament density, slope, lithology, geomorphology and landuse/land cover using SOI topographical maps, remote sensing data and GIS. 2. To prioritize the weightages of individual themes and feature score depending upon their suitability to hold groundwater. 3. To prepare the integrated final groundwater potential map (GPM) using th...

. MIQUELLE, D. G., ET AL. 1999a. A habitat protection plan for the Amur tiger: developing political and ecological criteria for a viable landuse plan. Pp. 273–295 in Riding the tiger: meeting the needs of people and wildlife in Asia (J. Seidensticker, S. Christie, and P. Jackson, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United

Background: Recent studies have indicated that working memory is not a unitary resource and that different types of working memory are used for different types of linguistic processing: syntactic, semantic, and phonological. Phonological working memory was found to support the comprehension of sentences that require re-access to the word-form of a word that appeared earlier in the sentence. Aim...