International conservation efforts have ignored the role and importance of historic disturbance regimes, both natural and anthropogenic, in creating and maintaining biodiversity. In this article we focus on historic livelihoods and land uses which we argue can and should be viewed as a type of intermediate ecological disturbance that may increase landscape heterogeneity which is correlated with...

Backgrounds: The prevalence of disordered eating behaviors has been reported to increase in recent decades; therefore, scientific studies should perform for specifying psychological variables that may contribute to the etiology of this disorder. In this study, we examined the role of body image disturbance and perfectionism variables in predicting disordered eating behaviors among female studen...

Achieving a high quality product corresponding consumer requirements involves organizing and supporting the production process with a suitable and flexible logistics process. As the process / production flow is better organized, divided into subdomains (production, maintenance, quality), each with clearly defined indicators and responsibilities, the more the process will be more stable, easier ...

Across the globe, forest carbon sink is increasingly vulnerable to an expanding array of low- moderate-severity disturbances. However, some ecosystems exhibit functional resistance (i.e., capacity continue functioning as usual) following disturbances such extreme weather events and insect or fungal pathogen outbreaks. Unlike severe (e.g., stand-replacing wildfires), moderate severity do not alw...

The wastewater treatment with a two-phase expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) system for anaerobic degradation of acetate, benzoate, terephtalate and p-toluate from purified terephtalic acid (PTA) production was studied. The feasibility and effectiveness of the system was evaluated in terms of organic oxidation by chemical oxygen demand (COD), gas production, bacterial adaptability and stabilit...

Obtaining a better knowledge of how flow variability affects lotic biota is of considerable importance to stream and river management. We contend that processes at different hierarchical levels of organization in lotic ecosystems are sensitive to variation in flow at related hierarchical temporal scales. Ecosystem disturbance caused by large-scale events (i.e. infrequent, but high magnitude flo...