BACKGROUND This study compares the efficiency of identifying the plants in an area of semi-arid Northeast Brazil by methods that a) access the local knowledge used in ethnobotanical studies using semi-structured interviews conducted within the entire community, an inventory interview conducted with two participants using the previously collected vegetation inventory, and a participatory worksho...

We present in this paper the advantages of using the model of Euclidean paths for the geometrical analysis of a discrete curve. The Euclidean paths are a semi-continuous representation of a discrete path providing a good approximation of the underlying real curve. We describe the use of this model to obtain accurate estimations of lenght, tangent orientation and curvature.

We show that a theorem of Shchepin and Repovš concerning the smoothness of compacta follows from the theory of semicontinuous relations.

We consider the upper semicontinuity of the global random attractors for the stochastic three-component reversible Gray–Scott system on unbounded domains when the intensity of the noise converges to zero. 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

We introduce the concepts of IVF m-semiopen sets, IVF m-preopen sets, IVF m-semicontinuous mappings and IVF mprecontinuous mappings on interval-valued fuzzy minimal spaces. We investigate characterizations of IVF m-semicontinuous mappings and IVF m-precontinuous mappings and study properties of IVF m-semiopen sets and IVF m-preopen sets.