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Using habitat suitability model for the wild boar (Sus scrofa Linnaeus) to select wildlife passage sites in extensively disturbed temperate forests

Abstract The occurrence of wild boars ( Sus scrofa Linnaeus) and reports of wildlife-vehicle conflicts (i.e., road-kill) involving them have increased in natural forest regions of Korea. In the past few decades, many wildlife passages have been constructed to reduce vehicle collisions involving wildlife species. However, few studies have assessed the habitat suitability of target wildlife species when locating the construction sites of wildlife passages. Target species rarely use wildlife passages if built in an inappropriate location. Therefore, a quantitative habitat model is required to find sui table sites for wildlife passages that can connect the fragmented forest patches of wildlife habitats in Korea. In this study, the wild boar was selected as the target species, and six environmental variables (percentage of Quercus forest, slope aspect, distance to roads, water accessibility, forest stand age and density) were measured. The habitat model for wild boars was developed with a Delphi survey, and habitat suitability maps were delineated for the provinces of Gangwon-do and Jeollanam-do. In this study, 298 and 64 boars were observed in Gangwon-do and Jeollanam-do, respectively. Observations of wild boars derived from the second nationwide natural environmental survey were used to evaluate the habitat model. Habitat suitability maps that superimposed existing road networks suggested that wild boar habitats were severely fragmented in both provinces, particularly in Gangwon-do. To connect the fragmented habitats and prevent wildlife-vehicle collisions, this study pro-poses 11 and 5 wildlife passage sites in Gangwon-do and Jeollanam-do, respectively.
Characteristics of Strategic Management in Innovation in the Field of Hotel Services in Romania

Tourism is an economic and social phenomenon specific to modern civilisation, strongly anchored in the social life and influenced by its evolution. Addressing to large segments, and fully answering their needs, tourism is characterised by high dynamism, both on national and international level. Tourism development, its vast national and international expansion made it become one of the top components of modern economic life, an extremely important phenomenon of the contemporary world, with deep economic, social, political, and cultural implications. Variety and richness of tourist attractions, natural, cultural, but also historical, bring Romania on one of the top places in Europe. It is a country which amazes and delights at the same time, a unique country. It is a mixture of flavours, tastes, people, and culture. The hotel industry, considered in most of the countries an autonomous activity, distinct from the tourist field, reunites in a coherent system all the processes developed in the accommodation units generated by the traveller’s reception, stay, and departure. The content of this field evolved along with the development of accommodation structures, and with their involvement in tourist activity, amplifying itself with new functions and forms of services. By the hotel industry, the main services are developed: accommodation and restoration. These services satisfy the tourists’ vital needs, because the hotel industry should also answer other needs or demands, as the recognition of social status, the desire to learn about other cultures or traditions, the pleasantly spending of the leisure time. The hotels sector registered development and modernisation along the time, and by reuniting the tradition of several centuries of hospitality and the restrictions of a performing administration, the hotel activity succeeded to maintain a good position on the market and in front of the competition by: providing services of higher quality, obtaining a good ratio quality/price, a bigger offer for the satisfaction of the most refined demands, improvement of the equipment, and comfort. The necessity to face the multiple challenges characterising nowadays the business environment determines the organisation to practice strategic management. This offers a series of
Iterative Multiphasic Ideation Through GPT

The advancements made in generative AI over the last few years have been phenomenal. These systems can now generate content that is hard to distinguish from actual human output. In this paper I put forth a design for an augmented content generation system, which produces a story generated using OpenAI’s GPT system, before ”musing” on, an revising the story. The current goal is to gather a research team in order to test whether this system alters the level of apparent creativity generative AIs are capable of achieving.
A distinct strain of tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus that causes mosaic disease in ash gourd and other cucurbitaceous crops

Ash gourd (Benincasa hispida) is a cucurbitaceous crop cultivated as an edible vegetable rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fibers and antioxidants. In a field survey conducted in the Udumalpet region of Tamil Nadu during 2019, the incidence of mosaic disease on ash gourd crop was observed to be 75%. The DNA-A and DNA-B components of begomovirus genome have been identified as associated with this disease. Both the cloned DNA-A and DNA-B genomic components shared highest pairwise sequence identities with the isolates of tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV), a bipartite begomovirus. Recombinant analysis showed that both the components are possibly evolved through intra-species recombination between ToLCNDV isolates. Tomato leaf curl Bangladesh betasatellite (ToLCBB) is not naturally associated with this sample. The results of infectivity studies on ash gourd and other cucurbitaceous crops demonstrates the Koch’s postulates, when co-inoculation of DNA-A and DNA-B of ToLCNDV was undertaken. However, the inoculation of non-cognate ToLCBB along with DNA-A and DNA-B enhances the symptom expression and reduces the time taken for symptom development. Thus, Koch’s postulates were proved for these virus complexes on cucurbitaceous crops. Furthermore, an enhanced accumulation of DNA-A component was detected in the cucurbits co-inoculated with ToLCNDV and ToLCBB. This report highlights the importance of investigating the spread of these disease complexes with other cucurbitaceous crops in India.
Analysis of changes in runoff and drying in the Tarim River from 2003 to 2012

We used meteorological data and MODIS remote sensing snow cover products data to monitor and analyze changes in hydrological and meteorological factors in the Tarim River basin over the last decade. We found that in the past 10 years,agricultural acreage in the Tarim River basin has increased from 10.869 6 thousands km2 in 2003 to 16.682 thousands km2 in 2012. This has occupied ecological water as the strong increase in agricultural water consumption and is an important factor leading to water flows into the river declining. The situation regarding drying-up of the Tarim River has worsened. The distance and continuing days of drying-up in the Tarim River has worsened in 2009 due to factors such as less snow coverage(3.08%),percent(39%)rainfall decline,and a lower origin district average summer 0℃ layer height(4 620.7m). The wet situation in the Tarim River from 2010 could be attributed to percent(84%)rainfall increase over the last decade,a higher 0℃ layer height in summer(4 795m)and larger snow coverage rate(3.5%). Because of changes in watershed management systems,the drying-up trend of the Tarim River has completely changed since 2010. Studying factors like changes in snow cover rate,changes in temperature and precipitation and human activities has a certain significance for monitoring and analyzing the runoff situation of the Tarim River in this arid area.
ℓq-Norm Sample-Adaptive Multiple Kernel Learning

Existing multiple kernel learning (MKL) algorithms indiscriminately apply the same set of kernel combination weights to all samples by pre-specifying a group of base kernels. Sample-adaptive MKL learning (SAMKL) overcomes this limitation by adaptively switching on/off the base kernels with respect to each sample. However, it restricts to solving MKL problems with pre-specified kernels. And, the formulation of existing SAMKL falls to an <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-norm MKL which is not flexible. To allow for robust kernel mixtures that generalize well in practical applications, we extend SAMKL to the arbitrary norm and apply it to image classification. In this paper, we formulate a closed-form solution for optimizing the kernel weights based on the equivalence between group-lasso and MKL, and derive an efficient <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{q}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-norm (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$q\geq 1$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and denoting the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{q}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-norm of kernel weights) SAMKL algorithm. The cutting plane method is used to solve this margin maximization problem. Besides, we propose a framework for solving MKL problems in image classification. Experimental results on multiple data sets show the promising performance of the proposed solution compared with other competitive methods.
Comparative Study of the Impact of Social Net Working Sites in Two Recent Mass Movements in Egypt and India

Recently we have seen a sudden upsurge of mass protests against establishment in different countries of various parts of world. These movements were generally ignited by the corrupt practices of ruling class. Individual reaction of people against corruption takes collective form sooner or later depending on quality and intensity of communication among people. Thus type of communication is an important factor for the conversion of general dissatisfaction into mass movement. To assess the nature and outcome of mass movements in contemporary world, it is must to assess the role of means of mass communication in general. In recent times particularly internet and social networking sites has emerged as a vital tool of collective communication. In various recent anti establishment movements in different parts of world decisive impact of this new tool of communication has been observed. Therefore, it needs to be critically evaluated. This paper is a small effort in this direction. In the present paper recent movements of India and Egypt are considered. These two countries represent the third world countries of two important continents. Both the countries had played decisive role in non aligned movement during the era of cold war and both are assumed to play important role in their regions in the emerging power balance in the new world order of post cold war era. The attempt here is to bring forth the role played by social networking sites in both Egyptian and Indian movement. In this paper an attempt has been made to compare the nature and tendencies of social networking sites and to co-relate this with the outcome of the anti corruption and anti establishment movements in these countries.
Spatio-Temporal Change of Dispersal Areas of Greater Kudu (<i>Tragelaphus strepsiceros</i>) in Lake Bogoria Landscape, Kenya

Wildlife populations decline of 69% between 1977 and 2016 have been reported in Kenya’s rangelands. Baringo County experienced over 85% wildlife loss in the last four decades, and thus a major concern for wildlife conservation, food security and environmental sustainability. Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is endemic to Lake Bogoria landscape in Baringo County and constitutes a major tourist attraction for the region. In an area with limited dispersal opportunities, the range for this species is crucial for its survival. To a large extent, extinction of wild animal species has been attributed to habitat degradation that directly aﬀects dispersal areas. This study was carried out to assess spatio-temporal change of dispersal areas of Greater Kudu (GK) in Lake Bogoria landscape in the last four years for enhanced conservation and improved livelihoods. GK population distribution primary data collected in December 2022 and secondary data acquired from LBNR for 2019 and 2020 were digitized using ArcGIS. Measures of dispersion and point pattern analysis (PPA) were used to analyze dispersal of GK population using a Geographic Information System (GIS). It was evident that GK dispersal in LBNR has been changing thus the null hypothesis that spatio-temporal distribution of dispersal areas of the GK in Lake Bogoria landscape did not change in the last four years was rejected. It was recommended that anthropogenic activities contributing to GK habitat degradation be curbed by providing alternative livelihood sources and enhancement of adoption of sustainable technologies including use of solar energy and climate-smart agriculture by local communities.
Calidad de las notas pre, trans y post anestésicas y su relación con la antigüedad del trabajador Quality of pre, trans and post anesthetic notes and their relation with the worker's seniority

Introduction. The practice of anesthesiology is by itself a high-risk exercise, making it imperative to have guidelines and standards that instruct the human staff to follow the established protocols with the aim of reducing the rates of morbidity and mortality. Determining the degree of compliance with the guidelines for pre, trans, and post anesthetic care of the NOM006-SSA3-2011, for the practice of anesthesiology in the Regional General Hospital No. 17, Cancun, Quintana Roo. Material and method. Transversal, descriptive and retrospective: a random sample was taken from clinical records of patients undergoing elective surgery in any speciality from Monday to Friday.
MIT Open Access Articles Conservation and divergence of ADAM family proteins in the Xenopus genome

Background: Members of the disintegrin metalloproteinase (ADAM) family play important roles in cellular and developmental processes through their functions as proteases and/or binding partners for other proteins. The amphibian Xenopus has long been used as a model for early vertebrate development, but genome-wide analyses for large gene families were not possible until the recent completion of the X. tropicalis genome sequence and the availability of large scale expression sequence tag (EST) databases. In this study we carried out a systematic analysis of the X. tropicalis genome and uncovered several interesting features of ADAM genes in this species. Results: Based on the X. tropicalis genome sequence and EST databases, we identified Xenopus orthologues of mammalian ADAMs and obtained full-length cDNA clones for these genes. The deduced protein sequences, synteny and exon-intron boundaries are conserved between most human and X. tropicalis orthologues. The alternative splicing patterns of certain Xenopus ADAM genes, such as adams 22 and 28 , are similar to those of their mammalian orthologues. However, we were unable to identify an orthologue for ADAM7 or 8. The Xenopus orthologue of ADAM15, an active metalloproteinase in mammals, does not contain the conserved zinc-binding motif and is hence considered proteolytically inactive. We also found evidence for gain of ADAM genes in Xenopus as compared to other species. There is a homologue
Estimation of zooplankton mortality

The outflow of freshwater from underwater channels in the Kongsbreen tidal glacier in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, 79 ◦ N, was measured as 138.8 m 3 s −1 at the peak of the melting season. Experiments on local marine plankton mortality show that when exposed to salinities below 9 PSU, all copepods die within 15 minutes. We estimate that during 100 days of the melting season, as many as 85 tonnes wet weight (WW) of plankton is removed from the water column due to osmotic shock, which makes up 15% of the standing zooplankton biomass of the fjord. The dead zooplankton sinks after exposure to low salinities and is probably an important food source for scavenging benthic fauna in the fjord. This mechanism could be responsible for the high numbers of Onisimus caricus near the glacier front.
Sediment rating curve for the Ganges river

In this study, a sediment rating curve for the Ganges river at Hardinge bridge gauge station has been developed by establishing power relations between sediment transport as dependent variable and discharge and unit stream power as independent variables separately. The unit stream power used as independent variable gives an improved curve. The sediment rating curve improves significantly when it is developed by partitioning the data into rising, flood and falling limbs.
Qualidade de serviços na manutenção de utilidades: uma análise de percepção dos clientes internos conduzida em uma empresa de manufatura Service quality on utilities maintenance: an analysis of internal customers perception performed in a manufacturing company

e a diferença entre expectativa e percepção dos clientes (gap ou lacuna) foi medida em relação a cada dimensão. A conclusão obtida foi que em uma das dimensões analisadas, o gap foi nulo (diferença igual a zero). Contudo, em todas as outras dimensões, o nível de qualidade ficou abaixo do espera-do, o que demonstra que existem oportunidades de melhoria na qualidade dos serviços prestados pela empresa de manutenção. Palavras-chave: Clientes internos. Qualidade em serviços. SERVQUAL. The proposal of this work is to analyse the quality dimensions of internal services performed by a subcontracted utilities maintenance company in a manufacturing company at São Paulo city. A field research was performed, of exploratory nature, by using data collection with a questionnaire of an adapted SERVQUAL scale. This scale compares the customers expectations and their perceptions related to associated attributes of services nature. The data were statistically analysed and the difference between the expectation and perception, named as “gap”, was measured in each dimension. The conclusion indicates that in one of analysed items, the gap was zero (difference equals to zero). However, in all other dimensions, the quality level was below the expectation, what demonstrates that there are opportunities of improving on service quality performed by utilities maintenance company.
CO2 in Arctic snow cover: landscape form, in‐pack gas concentration gradients, and the implications for the estimation of gaseous fluxes

The physical characteristics and CO2 concentrations of snow cover in the western Canadian arctic were examined at sites with diAerent landscape forms (valley floor, hillslope, plateau). The greater exposure of plateau snow cover to blowing snow results in diAerences in the structure of the snow cover and diAerent snow strata compared with snow covers on the other landscape forms. Both higher in-pack concentrations of CO2 and the largest vertical CO2 concentration gradients were found in plateau snow cover, the smallest in the deeper hillslope and valley snows. CO 2 gradients in all landscape snow covers followed two patterns, i.e. where concentrations at the soil‐snow interface are higher than those just below (5 cm) and the snow‐atmosphere interface and vice versa. The latter pattern is due to the transport of the gas from the lower levels to the upper levels of the snowpack by wind-induced advection (windpumping) and is indicative of non steady-state, nondiAusive processes. These latter processes should thus be considered in any studies on CO 2 fluxes from Arctic soil where snow cover topography and winds are conducive towindpumping and where concentration gradients resulting from diAusive processes have not been clearly identified. Copyright # 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Usual gait speed is associated with frailty status, institutionalization, and mortality in community-dwelling rural older adults: a longitudinal analysis of the Aging study of Pyeongchang rural Area

Purpose: We aimed to describe the age- and sex-specific distributions of gait speed and to evaluate associations with longitudinal outcomes in Korean rural community-dwelling older adults. Patients and methods: A total of 1,348 people (mean age: 76 years, 55% women) in the population-based, prospective cohort of Aging Study of Pyeongchang Rural Area (ASPRA) between October 2014 and June 2017. All participants underwent a comprehensive geriatric assessment, including 4-m usual gait speed, and were followed annually. Results: Among the 1,348 participants, women had a slower gait speed than men (mean 0.709 m/s vs 0.850 m/s, P , 0.001). Gait speed was inversely associated with age, frailty index; slow gait speed as classified by sex-specific quartile was associated with the prevalence of common geriatric syndromes. During the mean follow-up period of 21.5 months (SD 7.88), future survival without mortality or institutionalization was affected by sex-specific gait-speed quartile (log rank test P , 0.001): the 1st quartile of sex-specific gait speed was associated with increased risk of death or institutionalization. Conclusion: Gait speed was related to age, sex, frailty status, and geriatric health outcomes in Korean rural community-dwelling older adults. Since this gait-speed distribution in an older Korean population differs from previous data on other populations, we should consider a gait-speed cutoff value based on sex-specific quartiles to prevent misclassification in sarcopenia and frailty diagnosis.
the Nearly Occluded Internal Carotid Artery Intravenous Digital Subtraction Angiography of

Three patients with nearly occluded internal carotid artery origins were evaluated with intravenous digital subtraction angiography and subsequently had successful carotid endarterectomies. The angiographic features are described. Although conven tional arterial angiography offers superior spatial resolution and selectivity, the thorough mixing of blood and contrast medium that occurs with the intravenous technique minimizes the tendency toward layering beyond a high-grade stenosis, which may occur with selective arterial injection. In cooperative patients, the intravenous digital technique may be sufficiently reliable in the detection of the nearly occluded internal carotid artery to obviate conventional selective common carotid angiography.
The ECCO-Darwin Data-Assimilative Global Ocean The ECCO-Darwin Data-Assimilative Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Model: Estimates of Seasonal to Multidecadal Biogeochemistry Model: Estimates of Seasonal to Multidecadal Surface Ocean Surface Ocean pCOCO 22 and Air-Sea CO and Air-Sea CO 22 Flux Flux

Quantifying variability in the ocean carbon sink remains problematic due to sparse observations and spatiotemporal variability in surface ocean p CO 2 . To address this challenge, we have updated and improved ECCO ‐ Darwin, a global ocean biogeochemistry model that assimilates both physical and biogeochemical observations. The model consists of an adjoint ‐ based ocean circulation estimate from the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) consortium and