International conventions to reduce carbon dioxide levels focus on ecosystems and do not specifically recognize the need to conserve species. However, species are the building blocks of ecosystems, they are more widely understood among the public, and they provide means of capturing market values from ecosystems. Achieving successful conservation globally will require ensuring that the systems ...

We introduce a two-type internal DLA model which is an example of a nonunary abelian network. Starting with n “oil” and n “water” particles at the origin, the particles diffuse in Z according to the following rule: whenever some site x ∈ Z has at least 1 oil and at least 1 water particle present, it fires by sending 1 oil particle and 1 water particle each to an independent random neighbor x ± ...

Brlek et al. (2008) studied smooth infinite words and established some results on letter frequency, recurrence, reversal and complementation for 2-letter alphabets having same parity. In this paper, we explore smooth infinite words over n-letter alphabet {a1, a2, · · · , an}, where a1 < a2 < · · · < an are positive integers and have same remainder when divided by n. And let ai = n · qi + r, qi ...

We consider the adaptive tracking problem for a chain of integrators, where the uncertainty is static and functional. The uncertainty is specified by L2=Ly or weighted L2=Ly norm bounds. We analyse a standard Lyapunovbased adaptive design which utilises a function approximator to induce a parametric uncertainty, on which the adaptive design is completed. Performance is measured by a modified LQ...

London, 14th Feb. 1848 My dear Thomson I then may congratulate you at last on coming to your Kingdom but write you also for another purpose. When I last saw you you expressed a wish to join the Royal Society and on mentioning your name to some influential members, they expressed a corresponding wish to see you among themA new method of admitting members is now in force and according to the new ...

A longstanding and controversial issue concerns the underlying mechanisms that give rise to letter-by-letter (LBL) reading: while some researchers propose a prelexical, perceptual basis for the disorder, others postulate a postlexical, linguistic source for the problem. To examine the nature of the deficit underlying LBL reading, in three experiments, we compare the performance of seven LBL rea...

Charles et al. / CONTEXT F WOMEN’S MARKET CAREERS The authors compare determinants of labor force participation and occupational sex typing over a 20-year period for matched samples of American and Swiss women. Results indicate important cross-national differences in processes governing women’s market careers. These are in line with the authors’ predictions regarding mediating effects of specif...

People express more prejudice if they have established their "moral credentials." Five studies explored the acquisition of moral credentials through associations with racial minorities, particularly close relationships that are personally chosen. Participants choosing to write about a positive experience with a Black person (Study 1) or Hispanic person (Study 2) subsequently expressed more pref...

Extract: In summary then, the 'new cosmopolitanism' offers a basis to establish a more just global order, predominantly through its espousal of a commitment to humanity as a whole, facilitated by building consensus on values which demonstrate a commitment beyond the nation. It is not universalist, although it has the potential to become so, and it is not predicated on the existence of a global ...

Although quasar absorbers, and in particular Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) have proven a valuable tool to study the early Universe, their exact nature is so far poorly constrained. It has been suggested that outflows in galaxies might account for at least part of the DLA population. Observational evidences and models in support of this hypothesis are reviewed, including recent observations ...