The exact location of glacial refugia and the patterns of postglacial range expansion of European mammals are not yet completely elucidated. Therefore, further detailed studies covering a large part of the Western Palearctic region are still needed. In this order, we sequenced 972 bp of the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b (mtDNA cyt b) from 124 yellow-necked fieldmice (Apodemus flavicollis) coll...

Hemalata C. Dandekar, a licensed architect with a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA, is Prof essor, College ofArchitecture and Urban Planning, University ofMichigan. She was Director of Michigan's Center for South and Southeas t Asia. Her publications o n international development include two books, Shelter, Women and Development: First and Third World Perspectives, and Men to Bombay, Women at ...

The present study examine s the relation ship betwe en technology self-efficacy among university students and gender roles. Previous research has based differences in technology self-efficacy on biological sex and found significant differences. University students were asked to complete a survey dealing with gender roles and technology self-efficacy. The current study shows that gender roles, s...

The letter of the law is its literal meaning. Here, the spirit of the law is its perceived intention. We tested the hypothesis that violating the spirit of the law accounts for culpability above and beyond breaking the mere letter. We find that one can incur culpability even when the letter of the law is not technically broken. We examine this effect across various legal contexts and discuss th...

State of the art ICT basic devices are dominated by power dissipated in heat. Presently the main effort is aimed at cooling down he heat produced during computation with specific attention to the charge transport on one hand and on the other hand on reducing he voltage operating levels up to the point of not compromising the error rate due to voltage fluctuations. In this scientific session e p...

This report collects and reviews the definitions used by countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia to monitor poverty and employment according to the Millennium Development Goal 1. It distinguishes the indices on the basis of the threshold used to measure poverty: international or national, absolute or relative, extreme or less severe, based on food intak...

Large carnivores are currently disappearing from many world regions because of habitat loss, prey depletion, and persecution. Ensuring large carnivore persistence requires safeguarding sometimes facilitating the expansion their populations. Understanding which conservation strategies, such as reducing persecution or restoring prey, most effective to help reclaim former ranges is therefore impor...