The effectiveness of augmentation programs varies depending on natural enemy species released, targeted pest, and release environment. For example, open-fields, row crops, and orchards present a more difficult environment for successful natural enemy release than protected environments, such as glasshouses. Released natural enemies may disperse from the target site, perform poorly at ambient te...

AMICI is an association of parents who have come together to provide counsel for people, mainly students, between the ages of 17 and 24. We expect help with any problem with which parents may be faced?not only those we have experienced in our ?vvn families, but those we have ourselves been fortunate enough to miss. The association was founded in October, 1964, but some of the members have been ...

We examine the problem of building or fortifying a network to defend against enemy attack scenarios. In particular, we examine the case in which an enemy can destroy all or part of the arcs that we construct on the network, subject to some interdiction budget. This problem takes the form of a three-level, two-player game, in which we act first to construct our network and simultaneously transmi...

Dana M. Blumenthal* Rangeland Resources Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, 1701 Center Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Understanding why some exotic species become invasive is essential to controlling their populations. This review discusses the possibility that two mechanisms of invasion, release from natural en...

DECADES ago, the question for those studying international communication was how communications turns "others" into "ourselves" (propaganda). Now the question is who we are, ourselves, and where the "other" has gone. As a subject, international communication has moved from "low" to "high" policy; corporations and communities struggle to adapt to conditions created by a qualitatively new informa...

Cyber Activism and SMS Propaganda: The potential and limitations in utilising Internet and cell phone technologies to strengthen human rights in China With this thesis, I have aimed to analyse the impact of Internet and cell phone technologies on the development of Chinese society, with emphasis on how it affects the promotion and respect for human rights and democracy in the country. The focus...

Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of searches, has been recognized as a major problem for search engines. It is also a serious problem for users because they are not aware of it and they tend to confuse trusting the search engine with trusting the results of a search [16]. The parallels between web spamming on the internet a...

In internal ethno-territorial conflicts, what explains why state or rebel group leaderships use civilian-targeting strategies—expulsion or mass killing strategies designed to punish enemy civilians or to decimate the enemy civilian presence on contested territory? One argument is that those living under the worst initial conditions—defined in terms of collective goods such as weak collective au...

The purpose of present study is to explore impact of marketing mix (price, firm image, distribution intensity, promotion and propaganda) on the brand equity of Asia Insurance Firm in view of its customers and prioritizing of these elements based on significance of their impacts. The statistical population includes customers of Asia Insurance Firm in Shiraz, IRAN. Data is collected using questio...