Macro-parasites, particularly ticks, spend a large portion of their life cycle off host in the environment. As ectotherms, ticks are sensitive to abiotic changes and will modify their behavior (e.g., host-seeking questing) to avoid desiccation, while also trying to successfully find a blood me...
Environmental factors have a strong impact on farmers’ land use behavior. It can be seen from Table 4 that soil erosion, sandstorm damage, snowstorm and other problems in the cultivated land environment are mostly caused by uncontrollable extreme weather (natural environmental factors). However, the...
The test included the tolerance test for multicollinearity and its reciprocal variance inflation factors (VIF). Multicollinearity is present when the VIF is higher than 10 or the mean VIF is greater than 6. The diagnosis of multi-collinearity is shown in Appendix A. The largest VIF ranged from...
Identifying these factors will therefore assist in developing strategies and frameworks to improve the working conditions of MCWs. The poor working conditions in the care sector not only impact the well-being of MCWs but also reduce the quality of care being provided to people in need of ...
This study confirms that the crash-related factors have varying effects depending on the environment in which crashes occur. In particular: the increase in population and area width can be related to an increase in each of the considered urban traffic crash types, while the same variables were ...
This study first reviews the utilisation patterns of estuaries by shorebirds, fish and crustaceans, as well as factors affecting the distribution, abundance and biomass of estuarine intertidal macrobenthos that is an important food source for those predators. This is followed by a brief account of ...
The optimum power with 21.8 kΩ for different magnification factors is shown in Figure 8a. As expected, the power increased with the increase in the excitation vibration level; however, a nonlinear variation was observed. Further analyses were conducted on dimensionless experimental power versus square...