Carlos M. Duarte* 1 Department of Global Change Research, (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-University of the Balearic Islands) Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Mallorca, Spain 2 The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia 3 Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway *Correspondence:...

I examine how peremptory challenges, which are vetoes that attorneys may use on prospective jurors, affect jury composition. The purpose of peremptory challenges is to eliminate biased jurors, however I show that under the two most common rules used in the United States peremptory challenges make biased juries more likely. I show that if unanimity is required for conviction, the distribution of...

background in many parts of the world, ongoing deficiencies in health systems compromise the delivery of health interventions. the world health organization (who) identified four functions that health systems need to perform to achieve their goals: efforts to strengthen health systems focus on the way these functions are carried out. while a number of studies on health systems functions have be...

there are many trends in making an ecological city all around the word, one of important cases in this approach is safe and health water. according by definitions, safe and potable water is water needed for conducting the activities of man. potable water is the most important renewable sources and this resource plays important role for survival of most living organisms as well as man based on s...

abstract purpose of this paper: the purpose of this article is to review some of the most prominent applications of rfid in industries and to provide a comprehensive review of the work done from 1985 through 2007 and the research trend on that. the effectiveness of rfid and the challenges that it is facing with are also discussed. some applications of radio frequency identification in supply ch...

Although species distribution models (SDMs) are commonly used to hindcast fine-scale population metrics, there remains a paucity of information about how well these predict future responses climate. Many conventional SDMs rely on spatially-explicit but time-invariant conditions quantify distributions and densities. We compared status quo ‘static' with more climate-informed 'dynamic' assess whet...