Comprehensive and coordinated action across levels of government responsible for different policy domains (labour, education, housing welfare/health) as well local actors is crucial to migrant integration. To respond this need co-ordination, instruments are mobilised by countries. This paper presents six them, illustrate three categories practices supporting integration through better multi-lev...

A clustering and ordination algorithm suitable for mining extremely large databases, including those produced by microarray expression studies, is described and analyzed for stability. Data from a yeast cell cycle experiment with 6000 genes and 18 experimental measurements per gene are used to test this algorithm under practical conditions. The process of assigning database objects to an X,Y co...

An earlier research advocated that a below knee amputee (BK) with conventional trans-tibial prosthesis attains higher gait efficiency at lower energy cost with therapeutic practices of proper time and co-ordination in compare to normal subjects of similar physical parameters and quality of life. The present study focused on comparative analysis of energy cost and gait efficiency between a group...

The monitoring of ecosystems alterations has become a crucial task in order to develop valuable habitats for rare and threatened species. The information extracted from hyperspectral remote sensing data enables the generation of highly spatially resolved analyses of such species’ habitats. In our study we combine information from a species ordination with hyperspectral reflectance signatures to...

When ordinating plots of tropical rain forests using stand-level structural attributes such as biomass, basal area and the number trees in different size classes, two patterns often emerge: a gradient from poorly to highly stocked high positive correlations between large trees. These are inherited demographics (growth, mortality recruitment) allometry tend obscure other patterns, site differenc...

We examined woody species composition and its relation to environmental variables in native forest growing on four limestone islands in the southern Cook Islands: Atiu, Mangaia, Ma'uke, and Miti'aro. Relative dominance (percent basal area) of woody species in 74 sites was sampled using the point-centered quarter method, and the data were analyzed using clustering and ordination techniques. Thes...

The technique of replica casting of ceramic materials and the various methods of mounting and examination are described. Co-ordination of optical properties of the peels and X-ray analysis is considered. The uses of peels in showing orientation of clays settled under gravitation and also effects of plastic deformation are discussed.