Article history: Received 9 July 2007 Received in revised form 2 January 2008 Accepted 10 January 2008 Ecotones are zones of transition between two adjacent ecological systems and are characterized by a high rate of change compared to these adjacent areas. They are dynamic entities with both a spatial and temporal property, reflected in an ecotone width and location, which vary across time duri...

Reengineering has become synonymous with major change in organizations. This paper develops theoretical underpinnings for the concept of Interorganizational Process Reengineering (IPR), the redesign of processes across organizational boundaries, encompassing the norms and values of more than one organization. This is done by examining existing reengineering, interorganizational, and general sys...

Nacrtak Assessment of disturbance can provide forest managers with information to make appropriate decisions on site rehabilitation and monitoring. This paper evaluates the accuracy of successive estimates of site disturbance using two ground survey methods. The results from the point transect and grid point transect and grid point intercept methods were compared with the results from an intens...

Demographic indicators linked to general health have been strongly linked to economic development. However, change in such indicators is also associated with other factors such as climate, water availability, and diet. Here, we use a systems modelling approach, bringing together a range of environmental, economic, dietary, and health factors, to seek possible dominant causes of demographic chan...

The effects of the colonization of an abandoned grassland by forest trees and the associated microenvironmental changes on soil properties and the microbial activity of soil were studied along a 170 m transect established on a former pasture colonized by Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.) in Central Slovakia. The transect with a 5×5 m grid of sampling points crosses all successional stages from...

learning of abnormalities is a considerable challenge in data mining and knowledge discovery. exceptional phenomena detect among huge records of the database which contains a large number of normal records and very few abnormal ones. this is important to promote confidence to a limited number of records for effective learning of abnormality. in this study, a new approach based on the abnormalit...

the article introduces cyclic dilation groups and finite affine groups for prime integers, and  as an application of this theory it presents a unified group theoretical approach for the  cyclic wavelet transform (cwt) of prime dimensional periodic signals.

Monitoring fish assemblages is needed to assess whether Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are meeting their conservation and fisheries management goals, as it allows one to track the progress of recovery of exploited species and associated communities. Underwater Visual Census techniques (UVC) are used to monitor fish assemblages in MPAs. UVCs should be adapted to fish abundance, body-size and beha...