Newcastle disease (ND) remains a constant threat to poultry producers worldwide, in spite of the availability and global employment of ND vaccinations since the 1950s. Strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) belong to the order Mononegavirales, family Paramyxoviridae, and genus Avulavirus, are contained in one serotype and are also known as avian paramyxovirus serotype-1 (APMV-1). They are ple...

A few years ago a portal for bachelor and master theses from Flemish university colleges was established by means of the open source repository software DoKS. At present approximately 3500 theses from Flemish university colleges are available online. The growing use of the portal has led to a new communication stream that requires supervision and maintenance. Social software components amongst ...

Quantifying movement and demographic events of free-ranging animals is fundamental to studying their ecology, evolution conservation. Technological advances have led an explosion in sensor-based methods for remotely observing these phenomena. This transition big data creates new challenges management, analysis collaboration. We present the Movebank ecosystem tools used by thousands researchers ...

The articles collected in this special issue aim at addressing the debate about the protection and use of cultural heritage in the Pacific within the context of globalization. Contributions aim specifically at analyzing the tension that exists between, on the one hand, political, legal and economic discourses of Pacific peoples who wish to retain control and who seek protection of the use of th...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease , has been an issue of intense debate and argument over the past twenty years. The United Kingdom epidemic which peaked in 1993 caused much international concern, resulting in increased regulation of...

This thesis investigates the question how emissions from land-use displacement can be assessed and accounted for, using the example of carbon-leakage accounting in the planned UNFCCC mechanism on ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation’ (REDD). REDD serves here as example of an international forest conservation policy that might be effective locally but could lead to displ...

This paper is about a practical implementation of a search mechanism, whereby the concepts of an ontological layer are applied over the federal jurisprudence repository of court decisions (STF). After some brief considerations about the basis of this project, we discuss the steps followed to build the system. Resumo. Este artigo apresenta uma implementação real de um mecanismo de busca, onde os...