Common reed (Phragmites australis), an exotic invasive plant in North America, alters wetlands and thus affects the abundance, development and behavior of many animal species.We evaluated the effect of common reed invasion on 1) the abundance of 6 nocturnal flying insects, and 2) the activity of one of their predators, insectivorous bats.As bats ar
This study examines empirically the preferred valuation techniques used by UAE investment analysts in the financial and non-financial sectors.The study Cassette Players uses a questionnaire and interviews to address its ten research questions.Descriptive and nonparametric statistics were employed in this study.The results reveal that discounted cas
One virulence property of Borrelia burgdorferi is its resistance to innate immunity, in particular to complement-mediated killing.Serum-resistant B.burgdorferi express up to five distinct complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins (CRASP) which interact with complement regulator factor H (CFH) and factor H-like protein 1 (FHL1) or factor H-rel
Abstract Differential evolution (DE) is a robust optimizer designed for solving complex domain research problems in the computational intelligence community.In the present work, a multi-hybrid DE (MHDE) is proposed for improving the overall working capability of the algorithm without compromising the solution quality.Adaptive parameters, enhanced m