Abstract Insect declines and biodiversity loss have attracted much attention in recent years, but lack of comprehensive data, conflicting interests among stakeholders insufficient policy guidance hinder progress preserving biodiversity. The project DINA (Diversity Insects Nature protected Areas) investigates insect communities 21 nature reserves Germany. All selected conservation sites border a...

North America and western Europe.2 Information is scarce on trends in Europe and North America for chlamydia (defined here as including only genital chlamydial infection), genital herpes and human papillomavirus infection, and when information is available it covers only the 1990s.3 Although some increases in incidence are documented, it is unclear how much of this upward trend is due to improv...

It is our pleasure to present the special issue of Information Systems and e-Business on Business Process Management. This issue incorporates three select papers that originated from the BPM track of the European Conference on Information Systems 2008. Since then, the papers have gone through several rounds of review and revision, and represent a cross-section of research in the BPM area that t...

The authors conducted research from 2012–2021 at LLP Agricultural Experimental Station “Zarechnoye” of the Kostanay region Kazakhstan. experiment included early maturing soybean varieties bred by Omsk ANC, approved for cultivation in Russian Federation: Dina, Sibiryachka and Zolotistaya, also zoned Republic From May till September 2012, 2014, 2019, 2022 dry weather conditions were observed (HTC...

Nuclear fusion control, and specifically plasma control, represents one of the newest and more promising applications of Control Engineering, with increasing interest in the control community. In this paper it is made a control-oriented review of the state of the art of nuclear fusion techniques. For this purpose, a comprehensive description of the fusion process is provided, focusing in the mo...

Item replenishment is important to maintaining a large scale item bank. In this paper we consider calibrating new items based on pre-calibrated operational items under the DINA model, the specification of which includes the so-called Q-matrix, as well as the slipping and guessing parameters. Making use of the maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimators for the latent knowledge states, we propose...

Osbourne Quaye,1 Sharla McDonald, Mathew D. Esona, Freda C. Lyde, Slavica Mijatovic-Rustempasic, Sunando Roy, Dina J. Castro Banegas, Yolanda Mencos Quiñonez, Blanca L. Chinchilla, Fabián Gómez Santiago, Herlinda García Lozano, Gloria Rey-Benito, Lúcia H. de Oliveira, Jon R. Gentsch, and Michael D. Bowen Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (O. ...

Leeches of the genus Dina are one most abundant leech species in running waters Montenegro. This paper described a new yellowish-spotted and medium-sized from Skadar Lake basin Phylogenetic analysis based on COI data reveals that nesemanni sp. nov. is more closely related to D. latestriata Prespa than other yellow-spotted leeches known montane alpine areas Morphologically, can be separated all ...