to preserve wildlife habitats and populations, it is normal practice to select representative natural areas. the aim of this research is prioritization of candidate sites for environmental protection in mazandaran province. for this purpose, 26 forest cover types, habitats of 8 mammal species and important distribution areas for 4 groups of birds were used as input criteria. simulated annealing...

Development into the wildland–urban interface, combined with heat and drought, contribute to increasing wildfires in U.S. West a range of damages including recreation site closures longer-term effects on areas. A choice experiment survey is used estimate visitor preferences for vegetation past fire at sites. Intercept interviews are randomly select visitors national forest sites near Los Angele...

Privacy protection and traitor tracing have always been two separate research subjects. Meanwhile, digital fingerprinting, which tracks illegally distributed media by creating a unique code for each user, has long regarded as one of the effective means tracking down illegal users. However, most existing fingerprinting schemes focus on how to design more robust or general fingerprint target user...