Landscape Function Analysis (LFA) is an environmental monitoring technique which is internationally recognized as a method of measuring and monitoring ecosystem function and rehabilitation progress. Airborne hyperspectral data were used to generate maps of the three Landscape Function Analysis (LFA) Indices over a 5 x 20 km area of a rehabilitated bauxite mine in southwestern Australia. The tec...

this study was performed with objective land cover change prediction (forest, agriculture, residential and orchard) using logistic regression and markov chain in the gis environment in east of mazandaran province. land cover change detected using satellite imageries belonging to the years 1987 and 2001. transition potential modeling was conducted using a logistic regression. seven variables (de...

Wave energy and storm surges threaten coastal ecology and nearshore infrastructures. Although coastal structures are conventionally constructed to dampen the wave energy, they introduce tremendous damage to the ecology of the coast. To minimize environmental impact, ecofriendly coastal protection schemes should be introduced. In this paper, we discuss an example of an innovative mangrove rehabi...

Background: Despite exercise capacity and quality-of-life benefits, pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) and cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programmes are not easily accessed because of several barriers. A solution may be telerehabilitation (TR), in which patients exercise in their communities while they are monitored via teletechnology. However, the benefits of TR for the purposes of PR and CR have not ...

Land degradation is a global concern. In tropical areas it primarily concerns the conversion of forest into non-forest lands and the associated losses of environmental services. Defining such degradation is not straightforward hampering effective reduction in degradation and use of already degraded lands for more productive purposes. To facilitate the processes of avoided degradation and land r...

The number of annually compensated occupational diseases due to exposure to hand-arm vibration (HAV) has decreased during the last 15 years. The number of exposed workers has been declining in Finland, especially in forestry work, as harvesters have increasingly replaced manual chain saw operations. During the entire 1970s, forest work caused more cases of vibration-induced occupational disease...

We present the first records of post-release follow-up and monitoring a rehabilitated two-toed sloth ( Choloepus hoffmanni ) as well freezing behavior an inferred antagonistic interaction for this species. Two-toed sloths are nocturnal arboreal mammals whose survival relies on their capability to remain undetected by predators. Nevertheless, in Guayas province Ecuador, they among most common ma...

Abstract For patients with digital hemiplegia caused by stroke, equipment such as mechanical exoskeleton devices are currently used to help recovery, but they limited many shortcomings of this method. This paper proposes collect electroencephalogram(EEG) information through brain-computer interface (BCI) equipment. Combined the research status BCI system at home and abroad, we established idea ...

Our study is part of a multi-disciplinary research project aimed at stimulating debate among researchers and local managers. The central question of this multi-disciplinary research project was to better understand and manage high biodiversity value open habitats threatened with shrub encroachment and landscape closure, a common problem throughout Europe. Here, we study shrub encroachment and i...

abstract facial defects not only impact on the function and quality of life but also affect the psychological well-being and social behavior of patients. a nasal prosthesis can re-establish the esthetics and anatomical contour in patients with mid-facial defects, often more effectively than surgical reconstruction. for successful results, many factors such as retention, texture, color match and...