An invasive-native mammalian species replacement process captured by camera trap survey random encounter models

Camera traps are used to estimate densities or abundances using capture-recapture and, more recently, random encounter models (REMs). We deploy REMs to describe an invasive-native species replacement process, and to demonstrate their wider application beyond abundance estimation. The Irish hare Lepus timidus hibernicus is a high priority endemic of conservation concern. It is threatened by an expanding population of non-native, European hares L. europaeus, an invasive species of global importance. Camera traps were deployed in thirteen 1 km squares, wherein the ratio of invader to native densities were corroborated by night-driven line transect distance sampling throughout the study area of 1652 km2. Spatial patterns of invasive and native densities between the invader’s core and peripheral ranges, and native allopatry, were comparable between methods. Native densities in the peripheral range were comparable to those in native allopatry using REM, or marginally depressed using Distance Sampling. Numbers of the invader were substantially higher than the native in the core range, irrespective of method, with a 5:1 invader-to-native ratio indicating species replacement. We also describe a post hoc optimization protocol for REM which will inform subsequent (re-)surveys, allowing survey effort (camera hours) to be reduced by up to 57% without compromising the width of confidence intervals associated with density estimates. This approach will form the basis of a more cost-effective means of surveillance and monitoring for both the endemic and invasive species. The European hare undoubtedly represents a significant threat to the endemic Irish hare.

Curso: Las causas profundas de la Revolución de Independencia

Indagar en las causas de larga duración como son: el nacionalismo criollo presente desde fines del siglo XVI; las cargas, impuestos y préstamos forzosos de la Corona; la explotación en un régimen puramente colonial de la minería platera; las contradicciones entre indígenas y españoles; la división racial de la sociedad; el fracaso final de la reformas borbónicas; la riqueza y el dominio educativo y cultural de la Iglesia; la difusión de las ideas ilustradas que desembocaron todas en la Revolución de Independencia y tejieron su contenido y su composición social.

Survival or Sustainability? Contributions of Innovatively-Managed News Ventures to the Future of Egyptian Journalism

In the repressive political climate prevailing in Egypt in 2013-15, news ventures aspiring to high standards of reporting were forced to innovate. This paper analyses three Egyptian start-ups that experimented with novel revenue streams and news services during that period, to gain insights into their approaches to managing journalism. In the process it compares different criteria for assessing sustainability and concludes that, in adverse political environments, narrow economic measures of profitability and survival may give a misleading picture as to the sustainability of the kind of journalism conducive to democratic practice. Operating collaboratively, transparently and ethically may slow productivity and profitability in the short term while laying stronger foundations for durable relations among media teams, as well as with readers and advertisers, in the long run.

Metástases temporais: a propósito de um caso clínico

A metastização óssea para a cabeça e pescoço é rara. Em 20-35% dos casos, pode ser a primeira manifestação de uma neoplasia oculta. No caso específico do osso temporal, as metástases são originárias, mais frequentemente, da mama, pulmão, rim, próstata e estômago. Apresenta-se o caso clínico de uma doente, do sexo feminino, 71 anos, com Diagnóstico de Carcinoma Ductal tipo Cribiforme na mama esquerda, tendo sido submetida a mastectomia total, quimioterapia e radioterapia. À observação apresentava um quadro clínico de otalgia esquerda, associada a paralisia facial da hemiface ipsilateral, sem outros sintomas otológicos. Foi-lhe diagnosticada Otite Média Crónica agudizada, tendo sido medicada e pedida Tomografia Computorizada ao Ouvido Esquerdo, que demonstrou exuberante espessamento dos tecidos moles epicranianos temporo-parieto-occipitais à esquerda com extensão ao canal auditivo externo do mesmo lado. Por agravamento da sintomatologia, foi internada no Serviço de Otorrinolaringologia deste hospital para administração de terapêutica endovenosa, tendo-se admitido a hipótese diagnóstica de Otite Externa Maligna. Por manutenção do quadro, apesar de terapêutica optimizada, foi submetida a intervenção cirúrgica onde foi efectuada biopsia temporal, tendo sido diagnosticado lesão metastática por carcinoma invasivo da mama.

L'Écho de Paris

1888/09/30 (Numéro 1652).

Remonstrance burlesque, au Parlement.

[Mazarinade. 1649]

Advis d'Angleterre, envoyé en France par les Communes de Londres, au Card. Mazarin, Luy representant l'Histoire de Gaverston, Favory d'un de leurs Roys, & les malheurs qui luy sont arrivez, sur le mesme sujet d'une guerre qu'il exerce aujourd'huy.

[Mazarinade. 1652]

Oeuvres d'Omer et de Denis Talon,.... Tome 1 / ; publiées sur les manuscrits autographes, par D.-B. Rives,...

Comprend : [Discours de Pierre Lallemant sur la mort d'Omer Talon,...]

Oeuvres d'Omer et de Denis Talon,.... Tome 6 / ; publiées sur les manuscrits autographes, par D.-B. Rives,...

Comprend : [Discours de Pierre Lallemant sur la mort d'Omer Talon,...]

Oeuvres d'Omer et de Denis Talon,.... Tome 2 / ; publiées sur les manuscrits autographes, par D.-B. Rives,...

Comprend : [Discours de Pierre Lallemant sur la mort d'Omer Talon,...]

Oeuvres d'Omer et de Denis Talon,.... Tome 3 / ; publiées sur les manuscrits autographes, par D.-B. Rives,...

Comprend : [Discours de Pierre Lallemant sur la mort d'Omer Talon,...]