Traditional ecological knowledge recorded as part of a language documentation program can include valuable information on the presence or absence of plant and animal species in a given locality. Such data have the potential to inform biodiversity surveys at a local or landscape scale. In this study, bird names were recorded in six languages spoken around the town of Aungban in Shan State, Myanm...

سپیدایی از ﭘﺎراﻣﺘﺮﻫﺎی ﻣﻮرد ﻧﻴﺎز در ﻣﻄﺎﻟﻌﺎت زﻳﺴﺖ‌ﻣﺤﻴﻄﻲ و آب‌و‌ﻫﻮاﻳﻲ به‌شمار می‌رود؛ ازاین‌رو، بررسی رفتار زمانی مکانی آن می‌تواند ابزاری برای شناخت تغییرات محیطی باشد. ﺳﻨﺠﻨﺪة مودیس ﺳﻄﺢ زﻣﻴﻦ را به‌طور ﻣﺴﺘﻤﺮ، ﻣﻘﻴﺎﺳﻲ ﺟﻬﺎﻧﻲ ﺑﺎ ﻗﺪرت ﺗﻔﻜﻴﻚ ﻣﻜﺎﻧﻲ مناسب ﺗﻮﻟﻴﺪ دسترس پژوهشگران ﻗﺮار داده است. این پژوهش، واکاوی موانع برداشت/ دیدبانی ایران‌زمین، نخست داده‌های روزانة سنجندة محدودة ایران، بازة 1/1/1379 تا 10/1...

To assess the importance of variation in observer effort between and within bird atlas projects and demonstrate the use of relatively simple conditional autoregressive (CAR) models for analyzing grid-based atlas data with varying effort. Pennsylvania and West Virginia, United States of America. We used varying proportions of randomly selected training data to assess whether variations in observ...

The subtle juncture cues in older varieties of English such as Received Pronunciation can be difficult for speakers of new English varieties to perceive. This study looks at the perception of word juncture characteristics in three varieties of English (British, Hong Kong and Singapore) amongst British, Hong Kong and Singaporean listeners in order to widen our understanding of English juncture c...

Introduction Water is thought by many to be the most important nutrient for poultry. Charles H. Goan summed up the true concerns of the broiler industry when he stated, “The purpose of any broiler watering system is to provide sufficient water for optimum bird growth and efficiency.” In recent years the industry has abandoned v-troughs, cups, and bell type drinkers in favor of nipple water syst...

The quantal response equilibrium (QRE) notion of McKelvey and Palfrey (1995) has recently attracted considerable attention, due in part to its widely documented ability to rationalize observed behavior in games played by experimental subjects. However, even with strong a priori restrictions on unobservables, QRE imposes no falsifiable restrictions: it can rationalize any distribution of behavio...