Captive centers are wholly owned near-shore or offshore subsidiaries that provide IT, business process and R&D services to their parent firms. There are four models for captive centers—basic, hybrid, shared and divested. Each of these models is illustrated by a case example in the full article, which provides an understanding of how parent organizations successfully evolve their captive centers...

Parents face a trade-off when allocating limited resources to reproduction and self-maintenance, this can result in differential investment individual offspring rearing multiple simultaneously. In birds with biparental care, it is not well understood how each parent allocates its different chicks of the same brood. Theory suggests that parental depends on quality brood size, but empirical quant...

BACKGROUND The harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) is the largest Neotropical bird of prey and is threatened by human persecution and habitat loss and fragmentation. Current conservation strategies include local education, captive rearing and reintroduction, and protection or creation of trans-national habitat blocks and corridors. Baseline genetic data prior to reintroduction of captive-bred stock is...

This paper presents a new approach for hinterland modelling based on the results of port choice modelling. The paper follows the idea that the shippers’ port choice is a trade-off between various objective and subjective factors. The presented model tackles the problem by applying the AHP method in order to obtain ports’ preference rates based on subjective factors, and combine them with object...

A 2-year study was undertaken to assess the efficacy of Deer Stopper repellent for reducing white-tailed deer damage to ornamental plantings. Efficacy testing was conducted on a captive deer herd at Auburn University’s White-tailed Deer Research Facility and the Stimpson Wildlife Sanctuary, Jackson, AL. Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata), a highly preferred browse species in this area, was used as t...

Perception of safety and comfort of bicycle infrastructure is an important factor influencing the use of bicycles. Cyclists can be found all over India. In urban areas presently, mostly captive riders choose to bicycle as no other viable options of travel are available to them. This study discusses perceptions of these captive riders as compared to a group of not yet riding (potential) cyclists...

As a well-known example of “living fossil,” horseshoe crabs are ecologically significant macroinvertebrates in coastal and estuarine ecosystems. The tri-spine crab, Tachypleus tridentatus , has been widely utilized for amebocyte lysate production food consumption since the 1980s, which led to considerable population declines along west coast Pacific Ocean. declining crab is expected have ecolog...

Tundagan Village is a village under the PHP2D Conservation Study Group (KSK) of Faculty Forestry, Universitas Kuningan. has lot potential natural resources, one which labi-labi that live in waters tributaries. The purpose this program are to help increase population labi nature, create new sources income, and public awareness preservation turtles through captive breeding activities. form activi...