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Linking Wilderness Research and Management: Volume 3 - Recreation Fees in Wilderness and Other Public Lands: An Annotated Reading List

You may order additional copies of this publication by sending your mailing information in label form through one of the following media. Please specify the publication title and series number.ment series, designed to help readers access scientific information relevant to protecting and restoring wilderness and wilderness values. If you have feedback about what you found useful or what could be improved in this volume's content, organization, or layout, please email your comments to RMRS_Leopold_Institute@fs.fed. us and write "series comments" in the subject line. Or send your comments via mail to Research Application Program, Leopold Institute, PO Box 8089, Missoula, MT 59807. I am also interested in who you are as a reader, including your job title, and the purposes for which you found this volume useful. Thank you for your time. Cover photo—Public support for recreation user fees depends largely on how revenue is spent. The following volumes in the Linking Wilderness Research and Management series will be published in 2001. To order, check the box below, fill in the address form, and send to the mailing address listed below. Or send your order and your address in mailing label form to one of the other listed media. Your order(s) will be filled as the volumes are published. Abstract Puttkammer, Annette. 2001. Linking wilderness research and management—volume 3. Recreation fees in wilderness and other public lands: an annotated reading list. This annotated reading list provides an introduction to the issue of recreation fees on public lands. With an emphasis on wilderness recreation fees, this compilation of historical and recent publications is divided into the following sections: historical context, arguments for and against fees, pricing mechanisms and the effects of price, public attitudes toward fees, the influence of fees on recreation visitation and use patterns, and methods to estimate fee revenue and determine priorities for expenditures. Preface Federal land management agencies have recognized the importance of incorporating the best available scientific knowledge into management decisions. However, both managers and researchers have struggled to identify effective processes for accomplishing this objective. The Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute's Research Application Program works toward understanding barriers to the use of science in management and developing ways to make relevant scientific information more accessible. Managers can base their decisions on the best available scientific knowledge only if they are aware of current and relevant science as well as how it fits into their management goals. The …
Evolutionary Changes in Vertebrate Genome Signatures with Special Focus on Coelacanth

With a remarkable increase in genomic sequence data of a wide range of species, novel tools are needed for comprehensive analyses of the big sequence data. Self-organizing map (SOM) is a powerful tool for clustering high-dimensional data on one plane. For oligonucleotide compositions handled as high-dimensional data, we have previously modified the conventional SOM for genome informatics: BLSOM. In the present study, we constructed BLSOMs for oligonucleotide compositions in fragment sequences (e.g. 100 kb) from a wide range of vertebrates, including coelacanth, and found that the sequences were clustered primarily according to species without species information. As one of the nearest living relatives of tetrapod ancestors, coelacanth is believed to provide access to the phenotypic and genomic transitions leading to the emergence of tetrapods. The characteristic oligonucleotide composition found for coelacanth was connected with the lowest dinucleotide CG occurrence (i.e. the highest CG suppression) among fishes, which was rather equivalent to that of tetrapods. This evident CG suppression in coelacanth should reflect molecular evolutionary processes of epigenetic systems including DNA methylation during vertebrate evolution. Sequence of a de novo DNA methylase (Dntm3a) of coelacanth was found to be more closely related to that of tetrapods than that of other fishes.
Quality of Working Life and the Self-Employed Manager

This study investigated quality of working life differences between self-employed and salaried managers. Based on data collected in a national survey of employees from various demographic and industry groupings, the results indicate that self-employed managers tended to report higher levels of job satisfaction and job autonomy than the salaried managers despite spending significantly more hours in their jobs. The results are interpreted as supporting, in part, a “role accumulation” theory of work behavior in that the gains from the small business manager's job outweigh its costs. Further, no differences in psychosomatic illnesses, life and free time satisfaction were found for the two groups of managers. These results suggest that life-style problems often associated with small business managers may be overstated to some degree.
Effect of azithromycin on endothelial function of patients with coronary artery disease and evidence of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection.

To the Editor: Parchure et al1 recently published the results of a study that suggest that treatment with azithromycin had a favorable effect on endothelial function in patients with documented coronary artery disease and serological evidence of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection. The authors assume that the presence of C pneumoniae antibody is an accurate indicator of infection, but in reality, we have no way of accurately determining who is infected based on serological studies. Recent evidence indicates substantial problems with interlaboratory reproducibility using the microimmunofluorescence (MIF) assay,2 even though this is the only serological assay recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). 3 The CDC also stated that there are no validated serological criteria for chronic or past infection. The MIF assay is not standardized, and cross-reactions occur with other Chlamydia species and possibly with other bacteria, including Bartonella and Legionella species.4 However, the serological method used by Parchure et al1 was not even specified, and thus the significance of an anti- C …
Phenolic Compounds from the Leaves of Stewartia pseudocamellia Maxim. and their Whitening Activities

The half-dried leaves of Stewartia. pseudocamellia were extracted with hot water (SPE) and partitioned with n-hexane (SPEH), dichloromethane (SPED), and ethyl acetate (SPEE) successively. SPE and SPEE showed significant inhibitory effects against melanogenesis and tyrosinase activities. By bioassay-guided isolation, ten phenolic compounds were isolated by column chromatography from SPEE. The whitening effect of the isolated compounds from SPEE were tested for the inhibitory activities against melanogenesis using B16 melanoma cells, in vitro inhibition of tyrosinase, and L-3,4-dihydorxy-indole-2-carboxylic acid (L-DOPA) auto-oxidation assay. A cytotoxic activity assay was done to examine the cellular toxicity in Raw 264.7 macrophage cells. Of the compounds isolated, gallic acid and quercetin revealed significant inhibitory activities against melanogenesis compared to arbutin. In particular, quercetin exhibited similar inhibitory activities against tyrosinase and L-DOPA oxidation without cytotoxicity. These results suggested that SPE could be used as a potential source of natural skin-whitening material in cosmetics as well as in food products.
Attachment preferences and corpus frequencies in PP ambiguities: Evidence from Greek

The present study investigates the extent to which frequency affects Greek native speakers’ attachment preferences for structures involving ambiguous Prepositional Phrases. Analyses of samples from a written and a spoken Greek corpus were conducted in order to examine the frequency patterns of PP attachment in Greek. The results of the corpus analyses were contrasted to the findings of an on-line self-paced reading task which investigated the processing of ambiguous PPs. The results indicate that corpus frequencies correspond to parsing decisions on a coarse-grained (syntactic) level, and to a lesser extent on a fine-grained (lexical) level of analysis.
Mood and Balance are Associated with Free-Living Physical Activity of People after Stroke Residing in the community

Purpose. To determine which characteristics are most associated with free-living physical activity in community-dwelling ambulatory people after stroke. Method. Factors (age, gender, side of stroke, time since stroke, BMI, and spouse), sensory-motor impairments (weakness, contracture, spasticity, coordination, proprioception, and balance), and non-sensory-motor impairments (cognition, language, perception, mood, and confidence) were collected on 42 people with chronic stroke. Free-living physical activity was measured using an activity monitor and reported as time on feet and activity counts. Results. Univariate analysis showed that balance and mood were correlated with time on feet (r = 0.42, 0.43, P < 0.01) and also with activity counts (r = 0.52, 0.54, P < 0.01). Stepwise multiple regression showed that mood and balance accounted for 25% of the variance in time on feet and 40% of the variance in activity counts. Conclusions. Mood and balance are associated with free-living physical activity in ambulatory people after stroke residing in the community.
Review of Quality of Service ( QoS ) Issues in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Mobile ad hoc networks, are generally the worst-cas e scenarios for providing QoS guarantees. Not only is the performance of these networks unpredictable due to network dynamics, but they also operate with a limi tedbandwidth, in a higherror-rate environment. Addit ionally, if a MANET supports real¬time traffic, there is a n eed for effective traffic management by implementing an eff icient QoS scheme. This work discusses the characteristics of real-time traffic with emphasis placed on voice tra ffic. Also, the work reviews the existing approaches for providing QoS guarantees. Based on this discussion, we can develop some new QoS schemes.
Who Is Misleading Whom in Real Estate Transactions ?

The current commission system in real estate brokerage misaligns agent and house seller interests, so real estate agents have strong incentives to mislead their clients by convincing them to sell their houses too cheaply and too quickly. This paper studies, being motivated by the commission system, which types of agents are misleading which types of clients, so they need to renegotiate a better contract. We find that agents mainly mislead corporate, bank, and government clients, but not individual clients. Moreover, corporate clients are mainly misled by moderately experienced agents, while bank and government clients are mainly misled by less experienced agents. Highly experienced agents, on the other hand, mislead to the least extent on all types of clients. Greater information asymmetry leads to larger distortion on all types of clients, while greater motivation heterogeneity causes larger distortion on corporate and bank clients. We do not find evidence of agent shirking on effort. ∗Financial Support from Susan C. Thrasher Fellowship at the Department of Economics, Indiana University. Contact Information: Department of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405; email: jiaxie@indiana.edu.
ACUTE EFFECTS OF ANAEROBIC EXERCISE WITH DIFFERENT INTENSITIES ON DYNAMIC BALANCE PERFORMANCE

The purpose of this study was to investigate of acute effects of anaerobic exercise at different intensities on dynamic balance performance. Twenty sedentary men who were 23.70 ± 1.45 years old, were voluntarily participated in the study. Single-blind, randomized controlled crossover design was used as experimental design. For determining dynamic balance, dynamic balance test on isokinetic balance device with dominant-single-leg test procedure was used. To create anaerobic exercise effect, Wingate anaerobic power test was used with different loads. Dynamic balance performance was measured one time before anaerobic exercise trials. During the following four days, anaerobic exercise trials with different intensities were applied in order to create anaerobic acute effect. Dynamic balance test procedure immediately applied after all anaerobic trials. For analyzing obtained data, repeated measures analysis of variance and LSD correction tests were applied. In terms of other trials, 10.0% and 7.5% anaerobic exercise trials showed significant decrement in overall and anterior-posterior balance points (p < 0.05). In terms of other trials, 10.0%, 7.5%, and 5.0% anaerobic exercise trials showed significant decrement in medial-lateral balance point (p < 0.05). Besides, balance points increased in 10.0% trial, while the balance points gradually decreased to 7.5% trial from control. In summary, it could be said that dynamic balance positively influenced from anaerobic exercise when it low intensity, and negatively influenced from anaerobic exercise when it high intensity. Article visualizations:
Long chain fatty acids and dietary fats in fetal nutrition

Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids are essential nutrients for a healthy diet. The different kinds consumed by the mother during gestation and lactation may influence pregnancy, fetal and also neonatal outcome. The amount of fatty acids transferred from mother to fetus depends not only on maternal metabolism but also on placental function, i.e. by the uptake, metabolism and then transfer of fatty acids to the fetus. The third trimester of gestation is characterized by an increase of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in the fetal circulation, in particular docosahexaenoic acid, especially to support brain growth and visual development. These mechanisms may be altered in pathological conditions, such as intrauterine growth restriction and diabetes, when maternal and fetal plasma levels of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids undergo significant changes. The aim of this review is to describe the maternal and placental factors involved in determining fetal fatty acid availability and metabolism, focusing on the specific role of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in normal and pathological pregnancies.
Context similarity scoring improves protein sequence alignments in the midnight zone

MOTIVATION High-quality protein sequence alignments are essential for a number of downstream applications such as template-based protein structure prediction. In addition to the similarity score between sequence profile columns, many current profile-profile alignment tools use extra terms that compare 1D-structural properties such as secondary structure and solvent accessibility, which are predicted from short profile windows around each sequence position. Such scores add non-redundant information by evaluating the conservation of local patterns of hydrophobicity and other amino acid properties and thus exploiting correlations between profile columns. RESULTS Here, instead of predicting and comparing known 1D properties, we follow an agnostic approach. We learn in an unsupervised fashion a set of maximally conserved patterns represented by 13-residue sequence profiles, without the need to know the cause of the conservation of these patterns. We use a maximum likelihood approach to train a set of 32 such profiles that can best represent patterns conserved within pairs of remotely homologs, structurally aligned training profiles. We include the new context score into our Hmm-Hmm alignment tool hhsearch and improve especially the quality of difficult alignments significantly. CONCLUSION The context similarity score improves the quality of homology models and other methods that depend on accurate pairwise alignments.
Global Sensitivity Analysis of Stochastic Computer Models with Generalized Additive Models

The global sensitivity analysis, used to quantify the inﬂuence of uncertain input parameters on the response variability of a numerical model, is applicable to deterministic computer codes (for which the same set of input parameters gives always the same output value). This paper proposes a global sensitivity analysis method for stochastic computer codes (having a variability induced by some uncontrollable parameters). The mean and dispersion of the code outputs are modeled by two interlinked Generalized Additive Models (GAM). The "mean" model allows to obtain the controllable parameters sensitivity indices, while the "dispersion" model allows to obtain the uncontrollable parameters ones. The relevance of the proposed model is analyzed with two case studies. Results show that the joint modeling approach leads to more accurate sensitivity index estimations, especially for the joint GAM model.
Subtle kinks in distance-bounding: an analysis of prominent protocols

Distance-bounding protocols prevent man-in-the-middle attacks by measuring response times. The four attacks such protocols typically address, recently formalized in [10], are: (1) mafia fraud, where the adversary must impersonate to a verifier in the presence of an honest prover; (2) terrorist fraud, where the adversary gets some offline prover support to impersonate; (3) distance fraud, where provers claim to be closer to verifiers than they really are; and (4) impersonations, where adversaries impersonate provers during lazy phases. Durholz et al. [10] also formally analyzed the security of (an enhancement of) the Kim-Avoine protocol [14]. In this paper we quantify the security of the following well-known distance-bounding protocols: Hancke and Kuhn [13], Reid et al. [16], the Swiss-Knife protocol [15], and the very recent proposal of Yang et al. [17]. Concretely, our main results show that (1) the usual terrorist-fraud countermeasure of relating responses to a long-term secret key may enable socalled key-learning mafia fraud attacks, where the adversary flips a single time-critical response to learn a key bit-by-bit; (2) though relating responses may allow mafia fraud, it sometimes enforces distance-fraud resistance by thwarting the attack of Boureanu et al. [5]; (3) none of the three allegedly terrorist-fraud resistant protocols, i.e. [15, 16, 17], is in fact terrorist fraud resistant; for the former two schemes this is a matter of syntax, attacks exploiting the strong formalization of [10]; the attack against the latter protocol of [17], however, is almost trivial; (4) unless key-update is done regardless of protocol completion, the protocol of Yang et al. is vulnerable to Denial-of-Service attacks. In light of our results, we also review definitions of terrorist fraud, arguing that, while the strong model in [10] may be at the moment more appropriate than mere intuition, it could be too strong to capture terrorist attacks.
La difusión de discursos pseudocientíficos en la radio pública española. El programa Complementarios de RNE-Radio 5

espanolIntroduccion. En esta investigacion vamos a analizar los contenidos del programa radiofonico Complementarios de la cadena publica Radio 5 como muestra de la preocupante pandemia de discursos pseudocientificos que se distribuyen desde los medios de comunicacion. Metodologia. Utilizamos el analisis de contenido desde la perspectiva de la Frame Theory con el fin de determinar el dispositivo discursivo con que promueven los contenidos pseudocientificos en este programa radiofonico. Resultados. La cadena publica de radio pretende promover un espacio divulgativo y de utilidad social, pero contribuye en la difusion de contenidos sin ninguna validez cientifica y se pone al servicio del discurso pseudocientifico. Discusion. Las denominadas terapias complementarias y los discursos pseudocientificos ocupan el espacio publico aparentando ser utiles y cientificamente validos. Conclusiones. Estos contenidos mediaticos pueden resultar muy nocivos y derivar en un serio problema de salud publica y habria que tratarlos desde una perspectiva mucho mas critica y cientificamente responsable. EnglishIntroduction. In this research we analyze contents of the radio program Complementarios of the public chain Radio 5 as a sample of the concerning pandemic of pseudoscientific discourses broadcast by media. Methodology. We used content analysis from the Frame Theory perspective to determine the discourse device with which pseudoscientific contents are promoted in this radio program. Results. The public radio chain aims to promote an informational space and of social utility but contributes instead to the diffusion of contents without any scientific validity and puts itself at the disposal of the pseudoscientific discourse. Discussion. The so called complementary therapies and pseudoscientific discourses occupy the public space pretending to be useful and scientifically valid. Conclusions. These mediatic contents can be quite harmful and derive into serious public health problems, and should be treated from a much more critical and scientifically responsible perspective.
An Automatic Method for Building a Data-to-Text Generator

We describe our contribution to the Generating from Knowledge Bases (KBgen) challenge. Our system is learned in a bottom-up fashion, by inducing a probabilistic grammar that represents alignments between strings and parts of a knowledge graph. From these alignments, we extract information about the linearization and lexical choices associated with the target knowledge base, and build a simple generate-and-rank system in the style of (Langkilde and Knight, 1998). 1
Issue Priming Revisited: Susceptible Voters and Detectable Effects

It is widely claimed that campaign communications direct voter attention to the considerations that campaigns emphasize, a phenomenon termed ‘priming’. In two recent studies, however, Gabriel Lenz concludes that reanalysis of key instances of priming in the literature shows that priming of views on policy questions, or ‘issues’, is very rare. This article revisits issue priming during elections by incorporating individuals who are largely excluded from Lenz’s analyses: respondents who, in one or more waves of the panel surveys analyzed, did not report a major-party vote (or vote intention) when interviewed. Based on data collected during six national elections, the article finds clear evidence of issue priming. The findings have implications for the study of campaign effects, media influence and voting behavior generally.
Enhanced chiroptical properties of a hybrid material consisting of J-aggregates and silver nanoparticles

In this paper, we report on the optical activity (circular dichroism) properties of hybrid organic/inorganic structures consisting of dye molecules in J-aggregate states and silver nanoparticles. The most striking results of this study are formation of microspherical micelles in a system of interacting J-aggregates and silver nanoparticles and strong (up to 8 times) enhancement in the optical activity of complexes of J-aggregates and silver nanoparticles as compared to the CD signal from the original J-aggregates. These experimental results might have potential applications in chiral species sensing and can provide some insights on mechanisms of self-assembly of supermolecular structures and the induction of their optical activity.