Using functional responses to quantify notonectid predatory impacts across increasingly complex environments

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Hairworm response to notonectid attacks

Very few parasite species are directly predated but most of them inherit the predators of their host. We explored the behavioural response of nematomorph hairworms when their hosts are preyed upon by one of the commonest invertebrate predators in the aquatic habitat of hairworms, notonectids. The hairworm Paragordius tricuspidatus can alter the behaviour of its terrestrial insect host (the cric...

Using COSMIC-FFP to Quantify Functional Reuse in Software Development

One of the means organisations use to adequately measure the performance of their software engineering process, is to try to identify how much reuse has actually occurred. In this paper, the COSMIC-FFP (COSMIC-Full Function Points) measurement method is proposed as a method for quantifying reuse from a functional perspective rather than from a technical perspective. The COSMIC-FFP method has be...

The Use of Satellite Data to Quantify Thermal Effluent Impacts

Thermal effluent from a large coal-fired electric generating facility located on Mt. Hope Bay in the Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island, U.S.A.) has been implicated in a large decline in fish populations in this region. Detailed information on the spatial and temporal properties of this thermal input (approximately 5 million m day 1 of thermal effluent 7 C above ambient) is, however, lacking. In th...

Adaptive yield response of winter wheat cultivars across environments in Poland using combined AMMI and

The objective of the paper was to illustrate using and usefulness of a joint AMMI and cluster analyses to assess the grain yield adaptive response of Polish and foreign 31 winter wheat cultivars in a range of 20 environments (locations) and across 3 years (2005-2007) under integrated crop management, using data obtained in the post-registration variety testing trials (called PDO trials), to ide...