Background: In Solomon Islands, forests have provided people with ecological services while being affected by human use and protection. This study used a quantitative ethnobotanical analysis to explore the society–forest interaction and its transformation in Roviana, Solomon Islands. We compared local plant and land uses between a rural village and urbanized village. Special attention was paid ...

Persistent ISR (PISR) systems are a potential game-changer for asymmetric warfare. Realizing this potential requires delivering actionable information when and where it is needed, while shielding decision-makers from information overload. This paper describes a methodology and prototype system for measuring the military value of Persistent ISR deployments and allocating ISR assets to maximize m...

The population of the Western Arctic Herd, estimated at 490 000 caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) in 2003, is at its highest level in 30 years. Twenty permanent range transects were established in the winter range of the Western Arctic Herd in 1981 to assess the impacts of grazing. These transects were revisited in 1995 and 1996 (1995/96). Only 18 of the transects were re-located, so an additi...

This study was designed to examine the forest composition, structure and species richness of vegetation among undeveloped back-barrier islands near Sapelo Island, Georgia. Known colloquially as “marsh hammocks,” back-barrier islands are completely or partially encircled by estuarine salt marsh. There are upwards of 1200 hammocks along the Georgia coast, comprising approximately 6900 ha. In the ...

The Dual Vulnerability Model of seasonal depression posits that seasonal vegetative symptoms are due to a physiological vulnerability, but cognitive and mood symptoms are the result of negative appraisal of vegetative changes. In addition, rumination may be associated with stronger negative attitudes toward vegetative symptoms. This is the first study to examine implicit attitudes toward vegeta...

در این مقاله فرم رد جیکوبسن را به فرم‌های هرمیتی پادمتقارن روی جبرهای تقسیم کواترنیون با برگردان متعامد در مشخصه‌ی دلخواه تعمیم می‌دهیم. با استفاده از این فرم تعمیم‌یافته، یک رده‌‌بندی از فرم‌های هرمیتی مذکور ارائه می‌نمائیم. همچنین نشان می‌دهیم یک فرم هرمیتی ایزوتروپ (متابولیک) است اگر و تنها اگر فرم رد جیکوبسن تعمیم‌یافته‌ی آن ایزوتروپ (متابولیک) باشد. .

Awake but not aware: This puzzling dissociation of the two central elements of consciousness defines the vegetative state. Traditionally, this condition has been believed to imply a brain with preserved hypothalamic and brainstem autonomic functions but with no capacity for cortical cognitive processes. As is discussed in this review, over a 20-year span neuroimaging techniques have clearly dem...