A commonly overlooked aspect of conservation planning assessments is that wildlife managers are increasingly focused on habitats that contain non-native species. We examine this management challenge in the Gila River basin (150,730 km(2)), and present a new planning strategy for fish conservation. By applying a hierarchical prioritization algorithm to >850,000 fish records in 27,181 sub-watersh...

BACKGROUND To date, research on priority-setting for new vaccines has not adequately explored the influence of the global, national and sub-national levels of decision-making or contextual issues such as political pressure and stakeholder influence and power. Using Kapiriri and Martin's conceptual framework, this paper evaluates priority setting for new vaccines in Uganda at national and sub-na...

In order to maintain a proper balance between development pressure and water resources protection, and also to improve public participation, efficient tools and techniques for soil and water conservation projects are needed. This paper describes the development and application of a web-based watershed management spatial decision support system, WebWMPI. The WebWMPI uses the Watershed Management...

We give a generalization of binomial queues involving an arbitrary sequence (mk)k=0;1;2;::: of integers greater than one. Diierent sequences lead to diierent worst case bounds for the priority queue operations, allowing the user to adapt the data structure to the needs of a speciic application. Examples include the rst priority queue to combine a sub-logarithmic worst case bound for Meld with a...

Abstract Hydrology is one of the criteria for monitoring and evaluation (monev) watersheds management as stated in Minister Forestry Regulation Number P.61/Menhut-II/2014. So far, use various hydrological parameters monev has not been evaluated whether these truly reflect condition watershed. This study aimed (1) to evaluate effect rainfall on each sub-watershed, which include: flow regime coef...

The Benanain Watershed is located in East Nusa Tenggara with an area of 3,181 km2 and divided into 29 sub-watersheds. itself eastern region Indonesia a unique climate condition called semi-arid. high rainfall intensity occurring short duration results large surface runoff erosion. Floods erosion semi-arid areas due to sensitive soils drought heavy extremely. This paper presents the application ...

The high demand for satellite imagery and the relative scarcity of commercial imaging satellites combine to produce scheduling problems in which one or more of the resources is over constrained. Over-constrained scheduling problems can be problematic for constraint programming methods because of the overhead associated with propagating constraints and the time spent backtracking over a large nu...

Theoretical Maximum Speedup Ratio (TMSR) can be used as a goal for 14 improving parallel computing methods for distributed hydrological models. Different 15 types of distributed hydrological models need different TMSR estimation methods 16 because of the different computing characteristics of models. Existing TMSR 17 estimation methods, such as those for sub-basin based distributed hydrological...