BACKGROUND Over the past 50 years, Southeast Asia has suffered the greatest losses of biodiversity of any tropical region in the world. Malaysia is a biodiversity hotspot in the heart of Southeast Asia with roughly the same number of mammal species, three times the number of butterfly species, but only 4% of the land area of Australia. Consequently, in Malaysia, there is an urgent need for biod...

In this paper, a new concept of integration of fractal and the butterfly effect is proposed and implemented. A new fractal program was designed and developed to perform such integration. Among many existing fractal and chaos software programs, none of them allow us to achieve the resulting patterns demonstrated in this paper. Moreover, it is the first time that a fractal program provides functi...

Evolutionary search has been extensively used to generate artistic images. Raw images have high dimensionality which makes a direct search for an image challenging. In previous work this problem has been addressed by using compact symbolic encodings or by constraining images with priors. Recent developments in deep learning have enabled a generation of compelling artistic images using generativ...

UFR-STAPS, Laboratoire de Recherche “Adaptations Physiologiques à L’Exercice et Réadaptation à L’Effort”, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, 2 School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, 3 European Research Group in Disability Sport, Loughborough, UK, 4 Amsterdam Rehabilitation Research Ce...

There is a discrepancy in the literature as to whether fasting during Ramadan affects athletic performance. We suggest in this letter that the time frame for training is a confounding variable that has been missed in the literature.

The number of multiplications has been used as a key metrics for comparing FFT algorithms since it has a large impact on the execution time and total power consumption. In this paper, we present a 16-point FFT Butterfly PE, which reduces the multiplicative complexity by using real, constant multiplications. A 1024-point FFT processor has been implemented using 16-point and 4-point Butterfly PEs...

Reliability and efficiency are important criteria in the design of interconnection networks. Recently, the w-wide diameter d,(G), the (W 1 )-fault diameter D,,(G), and the w-Rabin number r,(G) have been used to measure network reliability and efficiency. In this paper, we study these parameters for an important class of parallel networks Butterfly networks. The main result of this paper is to d...

The Woodland Brown butterfly Lopinga achine (Scopoli, 1763) was found during several fieldtrips in summer 2000 and 2001 in continental Croatia and discovered for the first time in Istria. The discovery in Istria represents the western limit of the distribution range in Croatia. The Woodland Brown is considered rare in Croatia, according to previous findings. In this paper we discuss the distrib...

Albulina orbitulus lobbichleri Forster, 1961 is a rare butterfly subspecies endemic of Nepal. This has been recorded for the first time living at highest elevation 4,815 m from Himalayan region Mustang in West note updates information on change altitudinal preference this butterfly.

The title compound, C(13)H(12)O(2)S(2), belonging to the group of dioxoketene cyclic S,S-acetals, was prepared from the corresponding dione in high yield. In the structure, the C=O and C=C bonds are not coplanar, with O=C-C=C torsion angles of -36.8 (4) and -21.0 (4)°. The dithian ring has a twisted conformation.