Incorporating Wildlife Conservation within Local Land Use Planning and Zoning: Ability of Circuitscape to Model Conservation Corridors

Allocation of our world’s natural resources will become increasingly important as the human population continues to grow. Apportionment is especially imperative when considering the health of wildlife populations’ worldwide (Svoray, Bar, & Bannet, 2005; Theobald, Hobbs, Bearly, Zack, Shenk, & Riebsame, 2000). Efforts to provide basic infrastructure, housing, and food for a growing human population confounds the ability of wildlife to meet their own needs (Lagabrielle, Botta, Dare, David, Aubert, & Fabricius, 2010; Svoray et al., 2005). Previous research indicates that human conversion of native habitat is the leading threat to wildlife in the United States and throughout the world (Lagabrielle et al., 2010; Miller, Groom, Hess, Steelman, Stokes, Thompson, Bowman, Fricke, King, & Marquardt, 2009; Polasky, Nelson, Lonsdorf, Fackler, & Starfield, 2005; Stokes, Hanson, Oaks, Straub, & Ponio, 2009). Habitat conversion of the native landscape often results in the fragmentation of the landscape mosaic, severing the connection between habitat patches used by wildlife and populations of wildlife (Beir & Noss, 1998). Connectivity is crucial to wildlife for several reasons including dispersal, gene flow, and population persistence among other reasons (McRae, Dickson, Keitt, & Sirah, 2008). Conservation planning seldom occurs at local levels (i.e. municipal, county) rather it is often a product of national, state, or regional decision-making (Press, Doak, & Steinberg, 1996). The government levels at which the majority of wildlife management transpires is rarely the level at which habitat conversion takes place, the local level (Azzerad & Nilon, 2006). Increasingly scientists, ecologists, planners, and community members have been converging to incorporate wildlife and other ecological information into local land-use planning and decision-making (Theobald et al., 2000). Their ability to achieve this goal has evolved with the advancement of technology, specifically habitat models and geographic information system (GIS) (Roloff, Donovan, Linden, & Strong, 2009). This paper is a chapter within the context of a broader problem – loss of biodiversity worldwide, and its goal is to provide a summation of previous work centered on incorporating wildlife planning and subsequent ecological data within the framework of local land-use planning. In it, a review of current literature is summarized. In addition, ‘Circuitscape,’ a new and increasingly accepted corridor identification model is also examined. The primary objective of it is to provide techniques, tools, and processes by which planners and developers can attain wildlife conservation data in a format and scale deemed both meaningful and helpful

Insurance Protection of the Business Entity

Bakalářská práce se zaměřuje na vytyčení rizik, která jsou spojena s aktivitami společnosti Fajront s.r.o., která se zabývá pohostinstvím. Pro takto stanovena rizika je dále navrženo několik variant pojistného krytí a vybráno to nejlepší na základně několika kritérií.The dissertation aims on marking out the risks, that involves activities of Fajront s.r.o. company, which does its business in restaurant services. For these risks are then suggested several variants of insurance and chosen the best one based on several attributes.

GAMBARAN TINGKAT KEPATUHAN PENGGUNAAN OBAT ANTIHIPERTENSI PADA PENDERITA HIPERTENSI DI PUSKESMAS PANTE RAYA KABUPATEN BENER MERIAH PERIODE BULAN AGUSTUS 2020

Hipertensi merupakan keaadaan meningkatnya tekanan kapiler darah akibatkontriksinya pembuluh darah. Pada penanganan hipertensi perlu menggunakanobat antihipertensi yang akan efektif jika dengan meminumnya sesuai anjurantenaga kesehatan, Berdasarkan alasan tersebut, peneliti bermaksud untukmengetahui tingkat kepatuhan penggunaan obat antihipertensi pada penderitahipertensi di Puskesmas Pante Raya periode Bulan Agustus 2020. Penelitian inimenggunakan survei desktiptif observational dengan pendekatan cross sectional.Sampel yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah seluruh pasien yang telahdidiagnosis hipertensi di Puskesmas Pante Raya Kabupaten Bener Meriah yangmemenuhi kriteria pada periode Agustus 2020 dan diambil dengan teknikconsecutive sampling. Responden berjumlah 49 orang dengan jumlah populasi 62orang. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah kuesioner Morisky MedicationAdherence Scale (MMAS-8). Hasil yang didapatkan pada penelitian ini adalahtingkat kepatuhan penderita hipertensi di Puskesmas Pante Raya periode Agustusadalah rendah, dengan persentase 100 %. Penderita hipertensi banyak dideritaoleh usia 56-65 tahun sebanyak (46,9 %) dengan jumlah wanita (79,6 %) lebihbanyak dibandingkan laki-laki (20,4 %). pendidikan terakhir responden terbanyakadalah tingkat SMA/sederajat (42,9 %) sedangkan responden yang bekerja(65,3%) lebih banyak dari pada yang tidak bekerja (65,3%). Kesimpulan padapenelitian ini adalah tingkat kepatuhan penggunaan obat antihipertensi padaPuskesmas Pante Raya periode bulan Agustus 2020 adalah rendah

Paradox in Arguments about Media in Education

One of the most salient characteristics of children of recent years is their exposure toelectronic media including TV, video games, and computers. On the one hand, critiques arguethat such an environment leave negative influences on children. On the other, there are arguments that such media are in fact useful in providing children with rich experiences in classrooms. Rather than trying to determine which side should be considered correct, I tried in this paper to examine the social construction of opinions and statements as revealed in professional journals, newspapers and theories of mediaeducation. The first section describes a theoretical framework on which some of the important aspects of social concepts of media are related. Based on this framework, the second section analyses how various subjects in the society form opinions and evaluate media. The third section argues that the different perspectives revealed in Section 2 reflect the paradox implanted in the nature of media itself

Intermittent administration of parathyroid hormone ameliorates periapical lesions in mice.

Intermittent administration of parathyroid hormone (PTH) promotes oral osseous wound healing and protects against ligature-induced alveolar bone loss. However, its therapeutic value on periapical periodontitis is unknown. The goal of this study was to determine the effect of intermittent PTH administration on the progression of periapical periodontitis.Seven lymphotoxin alpha-deficient mice received pulp exposures of mandibular first and second molars. Exposed pulp in the right mandible was covered with plaque-contaminated fibrin, whereas exposed pulp in the left mandible was left open. After 4 weeks, the periapical tissues were examined to determine the effect of plaque-contaminated fibrin to induce periapical lesions. Fourteen mice received pulp exposure covered with plaque-contaminated fibrin. PTH (40 μg/kg/d) was administered intermittently to half of the mice for 3 weeks beginning 1 week after pulp exposure. The remaining half received saline injections as the vehicle control. At sacrifice, mandibles and tibiae were harvested and processed for histologic examination. Evaluation of neutrophils and blood vessels was performed after staining with immunofluorescence, and periradicular bone was histomorphometrically analyzed.The exposed pulp covered with plaque-contaminated fibrin resulted in significantly larger periapical lesions compared with the control. Intermittent PTH administration reduced the size of periapical lesions significantly. Significantly less neutrophil infiltration around the root apex was found in PTH-treated animals compared with the control.PTH treatment suppressed periapical inflammation by reducing neutrophil infiltration and protected against tissue destruction by periapical periodontitis.福岡歯科大学2016年