Although use of corridors by some wildlife species has been extensively examined, use by bats is poorly understood. From 1 June to 31 August (2004~200S), we used Anabat II detectors to examine bat activity and species occupancy relative to forested corridors on an intensively managed forest landscape in southern South Carolina, USA. We compared bat activity among corridor interiors, corridor ed...

trinidad is a small island developing state caught between the need to engage rapid development while respecting and preserving the environment. this study assessed citizens' education needs related to the environmental laws of trinidad and tobago. it focused on a densely populated, at- risk area of the country referred to as the east-west (e-w) corridor. two hundred (200) persons living along ...

In this paper we present a novel approach to path planning. The approach first plans a corridor with a backbone path which is obstacle free. This corridor is then used to generate a path for the character. Because the corridor around the backbone is obstacle free any path inside the corridor is also collision free. The planning of the backbone path can be done by any existing path planning appr...

Brand, L., 1979. Field and laboratory studies on the Coconino Sandstone (Permian) vertebrate footprints and their paleoecological implications. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 28: 25-38. The fossil footprints in the Coconino Sandstone have long been considered to be evidence for eolian deposition. I conducted field study of the fossil footprints in Hermit Basin, the Grand Canyon, an...

In this paper, we address the problem of generating building footprints using terrestrial laser scanning from a Mobile Mapping System (MMS). The MMS constitutes a fast and adapted tool to extract precise data for 3D city modeling. Urban environments evolve over time due to human activities and other factors. Buildings are constructed or destroyed and the urban areas are extended. Therefore, the...

Bipedalism is a key adaptation that shaped human evolution, yet the timing and nature of its evolution remain unclear. Here we use new experimentally based approaches to investigate the locomotor mechanics preserved by the famous Pliocene hominin footprints from Laetoli, Tanzania. We conducted footprint formation experiments with habitually barefoot humans and with chimpanzees to quantitatively...

37 INTRODUCTION As drivers age, the skills necessary for safe driving, such as vision, reflexes, flexibility, hearing and reaction time, begin to deteriorate. To cope with these changes, many drivers choose to adjust their driving habits as a means of retaining their mobility. Adjusting driving habits is one part of the puzzle; improvements to the roadway environment can be another. Traffic eng...

As pervasive environments become more commonplace, the privacy of users is placed at increased risk. The numerous and diverse sensors in these environments can record users’ contextual information, leading to users unwittingly leaving “digital footprints.” Users must thus be allowed to control how their digital footprints are reported to third parties. While a significant amount of prior work h...