This study was carried out to investigate the effect of ovariohysterectomy on vocalization during territorial aggression of German Shepherd dogs. Sixteen clinically healthy dogs of 5 to 10 months old were assigned randomly to one of two groups: ovariohysterectomy or control. Their behaviors and vocalizations induced by the approach of a strange with a strange dog were recorded using digital cam...

Analysis of landscape heritage and territorial transformations dedicated to its protection and preservation rely increasingly upon the contribution of integrated disciplines. In 2000 the European Landscape Convention established the necessity ‘to integrate landscape into its regional and town planning policies and in its cultural, environmental, agricultural, social and economic policies’. Such...

Throughout Europe, policy‐makers are developing policies to foster the spatial, economic and social development of what is, in the literature, often termed 'polycentric urban regions': a regional cluster of close‐by cities. It is assumed that taking a set of relatively small or medium‐ sized cities together opens up possibilities for regional economic growth. In this paper we put forward that t...

Behavioral interference between species, such as territorial aggression, courtship, and mating, is widespread in animals. While aggressive and reproductive forms of interspecific interference have generally been studied separately, their many parallels and connections warrant a unified conceptual approach. Substantial evidence exists that aggressive and reproductive interference have pervasive ...

15 J-FOR Journal of Science & Technology for Forest Products and Processes: VOL.1, NO.2, 2011 Agent-based technology and its applications in multi-agent systems are a set of tools used in many sectors, including manufacturing, services, logistics, and health care, to model and study the dynamics, resilience, and self-organization of complex systems, as well as to design prescriptive decision su...

After the Y2K crisis many futurists feared that it might take another millennium to receive the same attention the year 2000 brought to us. Fortunately, we have seen that part of the interest in the future that the turning of century and millennium provoked seems to carry on. One of the most remarkable features of this continued appeal is regional foresight, or should I say regional planning? T...

This paper examines the design and implementation of ParcBIT, a multimedia GIS CD-ROM presenting the information required for the development of a Master Plan for a Technological Park in the island of Majorca (Spain). The CD-ROM is the information resource of an international competition for Master Plan proposals in which world leading architects took part. Environmentally conscious planning is...