Conservation and management of many cetaceans is hindered by the difficulty acquiring samples from free-swimming individuals to obtain essential data on health, diet, reproduction physiological impacts environmental anthropogenic stressors. This particularly true for large whales, which are logistically difficult live-capture sampling. In North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis), a sig...

We present a suite of applications used for the Italian Treebank which share their linguistic processor and end up finally in higher level annotation tool called “FILES”. The first application “FILES” – Fully Integrated Linguistic Environment for Syntactic and Functional Annotation is a prototype for a fully integrated linguistic environment for syntactic functional annotation of corpora. It ta...

We aimed to correlate plasma glucagon levels with anthropometric measures and abdominal adipose tissue depots. Nonobese males (n = 81; BMI < 25 kg/m2) with T2DM of less than one-year duration and nonobese males without diabetes (n = 30) were evaluated for the following: anthropometry (BMI, waist circumference, W-HR, and truncal skinfolds), whole-body DEXA (for body fat and fat-free mass), and M...

Noninvasive genetic sampling is an important tool in wildlife ecology and management, typically relying on hair snaring or scat sampling techniques, but hair snaring is labor and cost intensive, and scats yield relatively low quality DNA. New approaches utilizing environmental DNA (eDNA) may provide supplementary, cost-effective tools for noninvasive genetic sampling. We tested whether eDNA fro...

Sign surveys are commonly used to study and monitor wildlife species but may be flawed when surveys are conducted only once and cover short distances, which can lead to a lack of accountability for false absences. Multiple observers surveyed for river otter (Lontra canadensis) scat and tracks along stream and reservoir shorelines at 110 randomly selected sites in eastern Kansas from January to ...

Accurate data on presence/absence and spatial distribution for fauna species is key to their conservation. Collecting such data, however, can be time consuming, laborious and costly, in particular for fauna species characterised by low densities, large home ranges, cryptic or elusive behaviour. For such species, including koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), indicators of species presence can be a ...

Gathering requirements in a domain problem is a challenging task for which several agent-oriented solutions have been devised. The high-level abstraction of agent concepts and their associated semantics eases this elicitation. Nevertheless, this does not ensure that the specification reflects what the customer demands. A frequent validation technique consists in building a prototype so that the...

Collaborative consultation has been widely adopted in school-based occupational therapy practice; however, limited research has examined how collaboration between educators and occupational therapists contributes to students’ outcomes. The purpose of this study was to describe the nature of collaborative working in two cases of school-based occupational therapy service delivery. This paper repo...

The purpose of this study was to estimate the portion of an ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi root community with a hypogeous fruiting habit. We used molecular methods (DNA sequence analysis of the internally transcribed spacer [ITS] region of rDNA) to compare three viewpoints: ECM fungi on the roots in a southern Sierra Nevada Abies-dominated old-growth forest, fungi in scat samples collected from s...