An understanding of population demographics and life history processes is integral to the rehabilitation fish populations. In Australia’s highly modified Murray–Darling Basin, native are imperilled deaths in Darling River 2018–19 highlighted their vulnerability. Golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) a long-lived percichthyid that was conspicuous kills. To guide River, pre-fish kill age structure, pr...

We show that consumption expenditures for older households are more responsive to monetary policy shocks than young- or middle-aged households. A one-standard-deviation expansionary shock induces a statistically significant and quantitatively large (1.7%) increase in aggregate old over the ensuing 3 years. The responses smaller not significant. also present evidence, suggesting life-cycle wealt...

Undoubtedly, the commercialization of the Internet will also have an influence on the Internet culture. First, traditional businesses will increasingly want a presence on the Internet, in the form of electronic storefronts. Second, there's a new breed of cyber-entrepreneurs exploiting new niches. We do not belong to the group of people who deplores this development. We believe business is a leg...

OBJECTIVE To study and compare the perinatal mortality (PNM) in hospitals located in various socio-economic areas of Karachi. DESIGN A prospective review of all births was done from May 1996 to April 1997. Precoded proformas were provided to each hospital and the birth and details of each mother and baby delivered recorded. SETTING All mothers and their newborn delivered during the time per...

Attempts at interface agent personalization are usually aimed at helping the user perform a task or service. For example, scheduling of appointments, inspection of messages, discovering items of interest and different forms of negotiation. While this is very noble undertaking, it makes assumptions about the level of trust and credibility a user may place in such an agent in a real world setting...

Humans are naturally experts in recognizing faces. Such skills are enforced through a mix of cultural and cognitive processes. This allows human vision system to be especially efficient and effective in processing faces in a familiar environment. Automatic recognition system are currently not able (will ever be?) to achieve similar performance, especially when cross-demographic features are inv...