The objective of this study was to make an inventory of the ixodid tick species infesting wild animals in three western, semi-arid nature reserves in South Africa. To this end 22 animals in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, 10 in the West Coast National Park and 16 in the Karoo National Park were examined. Fourteen tick species were recovered, of which Hyalomma truncatum, Rhipicephalus exophtha...

70 households living in two communes in the buffer zone of Bach Ma National Park were interviewed in order to qualify and quantify their utilization of forest products from the protected area. The interviewees were also asked to specify the environmental services they receive from t he National Park. Utilization of forest products still plays an important role for supporting the livelihoods of ...

As technology has advanced quickly, more individuals are using smartphones for a variety of functions such as marketing, business, social media, surfing, etc. This also increased the threat information sharing across various sites, which is one major reasons harassment cases and other security threats against women. Surveys reveal that, smartphone usage by women risen upto 5 folds in last 6 yea...

Women decision making is giving legitimate power or authority to perform the tasks. If women were free take their own decisions, they would be able participate in planning and task contribute development programmes activities individually. The process of freedom should start from our home. Womens position household determines womens autonomy family. It worth examine whether she can decide about...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the preferences of urban dwellers for variouselements of urban parks in order to provide some important suggestions for rehabilitation of urban deficient parks. Inthis regard, this study has conducted a survey in one of the oldest parks in Khorramabad, Iran, to reveal the overallsatisfaction of the park situation and to explore the preferences of...

TO LIMITED REASONING Jennifer Drapkin and Donald Perlis University of Maryland Department of Computer Science College Park, Maryland 20742 USA (301) 454-2002 Abstract: We propose that a new kind of logical study is appropriate to agents engaged in commonsense reasoning, namely, one that focuses on the steps of reasoning at any giv en time rather than the collection of all conclusions ever reached.

1 INTRODUCTION Urban public parks offer a great potential to raise the quality of life for urban citizens, while at the same time their creation and maintenance requires substantious amounts of money. Surveys have shown that citizens consider parks to be an important element for their well-being, even if used only occasionally. By offering opportunities for equal participation irrespective of g...