Functional connectivity is a measure of the interaction of landscape structure and a species’ dispersal ability to determine the degree to which a landscape facilitates movement among patches. Dispersal through an inhospitable matrix requires that a species is willing to enter the matrix and can successfully colonize another habitat patch. Many connectivity indices have been developed which inc...

Background: The road to respond to the needs of today's modern world, affected by the advancement of technological tools, seeks to increase speed and increasing safety. This study seeks to improve the landscape quality of roads, explains the effective criteria in road design and the need to pay attention to the category of design ethics and emphasizes them. Conclusion: In order to increase the...

CONTEXT Once inhaled, nanoparticles (NP) deposit on the lung surface and have first contact with the epithelial lung lining fluid (ELF) rich in proteins, which may bind to NP. OBJECTIVE In this study, we investigate the parameters that influence the binding between NP and proteins. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used the proteins albumin, transferrin (TF), and apolipoprotein A-1 (all known as pro...

Indicators based on territorial information, both spatial and temporal are widely used in many areas to promote and monitor sustainable development. Different databases can be used as well as different approaches to interpret these databases into a range of indicators. In this paper we present a series of theoretical landscape indices based on multispectral data from satellite Landsat 7 TM of A...

NRS 534: Ecology of Fragmental Landscapes Yuyu Zhou Spring 2005 Overview Connectivity refers to the degree to which a landscape facilitates or impedes ecological flows such as the movement of organisms among habitat patches and therefore the rate of movement among local populations in a metapopulation (McGarigal et al. v3). Although connectivity is important in landscape ecology, there is no pr...

Because of the differences between indoor and outdoor thermal condition, preparing some outdoor thermal indices is a way to understand and categorize the outdoor thermal sensation. The aim of these indices is not to provide thermal comfort - as it is the aim of indoor indices. Instead, they are provided to analyze outdoor thermal sensation to help architects, landscape architects and urban desi...