The southeastern United States is home to the highest amphibian species richness in North America.An often overlooked component of research on factors that drive amphibian geographic distributions is description of species range shape.Broad-scale range disjunction has implications for phylogeography, ecology, and conservation, but descriptions of f

In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), the vehicles will periodically exchange information via broadcasting security-related message, such as the states of vehicles and roads, in which the performance may become worse when the vehicle density increases.To improve the poor performance of network when vehicular density is high, an adaptive back-off s

Identifying causal regulatory variants and their target genes from the majority of non-coding disease-associated genetic loci is the main challenge in post-Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) functional studies.Although chromosome conformation capture (3C) and its derivative technologies have been successfully applied to nominate putative causal

The application of cold-formed steel channel sections for portal frames becomes more popular for industrial and residential purposes.Experimental tests RAW CACAO BUTTER showed that such structures with long-span up to 20 m can be achieved when knee brace joints are included.In this paper, the influence of knee brace configuration on the optimum des