While the scarcity of up-to-date data on beach litter contamination in the Caribbean has been stressed in several recent studies, we here point to the even greater paucity of published work on litter in mangroves and on the shallow tropical seafloor. During collection of baseline data on beach litter contamination on the Southeastern Caribbean island of Bonaire (Debrot et al. Mar. Poll. Bull., ...

Rapid survey methods are needed that accurately detect both species richness and relative abundance for surveying new sites and/or for long-term monitoring. We investigate whether the large-scale gradsect survey method of Gillison can be adapted for a smaller scale more suitable for monitoring or research. Three different designs that are compared are typical random small plot sampling and two ...

Atmospheric sampling of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) was conducted using Semi Permeable Membrane Devices (SPMDs) deployed in the Alps at different altitudinal transects for two consecutive exposure periods of half a year and a third simultaneous year-long period. Along all the altitude profiles, the sequestered amounts of OCPs increased in general with altitude. SPMDs were still working as ...

The objective of this study was to determine the density and habitat preference of the Black-andrufous elephant-shrew (Rhynchocyon petersi) in Chome Forest Reserve, Tanzania. Chome Forest (143km2) is located in the South Pare Mountains and provides critical habitat for endangered R. petersi. Twelve 300m transects were cut through the centre of the forest in an east-west direction and the number...

Numerous applications of small footprint airborne lidar (light detection and ranging) have provided highly accurate results for estimating forest height. However, the associated acquisition cost remains high, which limits its use for wall-to-wall large area mapping. In this study, we developed a novel framework by integrating GEOBIA (GEOgraphic Object-Based Image Analysis), lidar transects and ...

Noninvasive survey methods based on analyzing DNA extracted from feces can be useful for carnivores that are difficult to study by other methods. Changes in fecal deposition patterns associated with reproduction in kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis) might affect results of such surveys. We used a trained dog to collect fresh scats on 2-km transects in the home ranges of 11 radiocollared female kit fox...

The globalization of supply chains is both the enabler and effect globalized economy. Recently, it has become clear that high level efficiency tight global came with a cost as turbulence resulting chain disruptions have more frequent common. A greater resilience in stands out main mechanism to mitigate challenges. While achieving without doubt challenging for companies, we suggest can be done d...

ntroduction. The student selection at the universities has always been a matter of concern. Student selection process should allow equal opportunities to all students who fulfil a set of pre-determined criteria, apart from the sex, religion, social and cultural backgrounds. Moreover, the process should be quite transparent and perfectly concerned. Student admission is held in different methods ...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is still prevalent worldwide, and its severity, which differs between regions and countries, has led to international organisations proposing its inclusion in the global development framework that will succeed the Millennium Development Goals (post-2015 framework). In Sub-Saharan Africa, malnutrition is particularly severe, among women and children under 5 years. The pre...