Associative theories of learning have been used to explain human contingency learning since the 1980’s. Recent findings have led several authors to claim that there is no evidence clearly showing the engagement of associative processes of acquisition or representation in human contingency learning, and to propose non-associative accounts. Priming techniques can detect associative representation...

Learners have different knowledge, interests and also goals in any educational process. If all the learners are provided the same content the process will probably not meet expected goals. A personalized approach to a learner increases the efficiency of the learning process. It is based on information about the learner that is subject of change. Several adaptive educational systems exist. Howev...

Sea level rise has increased the frequency of tidal flooding even without accompanying precipitation in many coastal areas worldwide. As tide rises, inundates landscape, and then recedes, it can transport organic inorganic matter between terrestrial systems adjacent aquatic environments. However, chemical biological effects on urban estuarine remain poorly constrained. Here, we provide first ex...

BACKGROUND Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is weather dependent arboviral infection of livestock and humans. Population dynamics of mosquito vectors is associated with disease epidemics. In our study, we use daily temperature and rainfall as model inputs to simulate dynamics of mosquito vectors population in relation to disease epidemics. METHODS/FINDINGS Time-varying distributed delays (TVDD) and mu...

Remote sensing using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an important tool for emergency flood incident management. At present, operational services are mainly aimed at mapping in rural areas, as urban areas hampered by the complicated backscattering mechanisms occurring there. A method detecting flooding high resolution that may contain dense housing presented. This largely uses remotely sensed ...

An automated tool for pre-operational mapping of floods and inland waters using Sentinel-1 data is presented. The acronym AUTOWADE (AUTOmatic Water Areas DEtector) used to denote it. provides the end user (Italian Department Civil Protection) with a continuous, near real-time (NRT) monitoring extent water surfaces (floodwater permanent water). It implements following operations: downloading pro...

due to its critical impact and significant destructive nature during and after seismic events, soil liquefaction and liquefactioninduced lateral ground spreading have been increasingly important topics in the geotechnical earthquake engineering field during the past four decades. the aim of this research is to develop an empirical model for the assessment of liquefaction-induced lateral ground ...

biosurfactants are surface-active compounds produced by microorganisms. in this study, we collected 60 inguinal area and ear canal samples from cows, sheep, and goats (each, 10 animals) and screened for biosurfactant-producing bacteria. we also determined the genera of culturing strains. fifty six hemolytic bacterial strains (27, 22 and 7, from cows, sheep and goats, respectively) were isolated...