Acquiring reliable data on large felid populations is crucial for effective conservation and management. However, large felids, typically solitary, elusive and nocturnal, are difficult to survey. Tagging and following individuals with VHF or GPS technology is the standard approach, but costs are high and these methodologies can compromise animal welfare. Such limitations can restrict the use of...

Received 07 May 2012 Accepted 12 December 2012 Abstract The well-documented re-colonisation of the French large river basins of Loire and Rhone by European otter and beaver allowed the analysis of explanatory factors and threats to species movement in the river corridor. To what extent anthropogenic disturbance of the riparian zone influences the corridor functioning is a central question in th...

We report on recent advances in the understanding of surface processes occurring during growth and post-growth annealing of strained islands which may find application as self-assembled quantum dots. We investigate the model system SiGe/Si(0 0 1) by a new approach based on ‘‘reading the footprints’’ which islands leave on the substrate during their growth and evolution. Such footprints consist ...

We introduce a new approach for generating simple 3D building models by combining building footprints from 2D maps with street level images. The approach works with crowd sourced maps such as the OpenStreetMap and street level images acquired by a calibrated camera mounted on a moving vehicle. Buildings are modeled as boxes extruded from building footprints with the height information estimated...

Consider a corridor which connects a continuum of residential locations to the CBD (central business district) and which is subject to flow congestion. All (identical) individuals travel along the corridor from home to work in the morning rush hour and have the same work start time. Each individual decides when to depart from home so as to minimize the sum of travel time costs, time early costs...

s for papers 0, 1, 2; Jerry Tromp, 3206750 The corridor map method: a general framework for real-time high-quality path planning Authors: Roland Geraerts and Mark Overmars A common problem in virtual interactive environments is to plan a path for one or several characters, and following that path from starting point to destination point. With the amount of processing currently available in our ...