1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972813103321

Titolo

Sampling rare or elusive species : concepts, designs, and techniques for estimating population parameters / / edited by William L. Thompson ; foreword by Kenneth P. Burnham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : Island Press, c2004

ISBN

9781597261234

1597261238

9781610911061

1610911067

9781597269223

1597269220

9781429495226

1429495227

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ThompsonWilliam L <1962-> (William Lawrence)

Disciplina

591.68

Soggetti

Rare animals - Monitoring

Rare plants - Monitoring

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyrights Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Ch. 1: Introduction""; ""Part I: Overview and Basic Concepts""; ""Ch. 2: Sampling Rare Populations""; ""Ch. 3: Separating Components of Detection Probablilit in Abundance Estimation""; ""Ch. 4: Indexes as Surrogates to Abundance for Low-Abundance Species""; ""Part II: Sampling Designs for Rare Species and Populations""; ""Ch. 5: Application of Adaptive Sampling to Biological Populations""; ""Ch. 6: Two-Phase Adaptive Stratified Sampling""

""Ch. 7: Sequential Sampling for Rare or Geographically Clustered Populations""""Part III: Estimating Occupancy""; ""Ch. 8: Occupancy Estimation and Modeling for Rare and Elusive Populations""; ""Ch. 9: A Bayelisan Appraoch to Estimating Presence When a Species is Undetected""; ""Ch. 10: Searching for New Populations of Rare Plant Species in Remote Locations""; ""Part IV: Estimating Abundance, Density



and other Parameters""; ""Ch. 11: Using Noninvasive Genetic Sampling to Detect and Estimate Abundance of Rare Wildlife Species""

""Ch. 12: Photographic Sampling of Elusive Mammals in Tropical Forests""""Ch. 13: Using Probability Sampling of Animal Tracks in Snow to estimate Population Size""; ""Ch. 14: Sampling Rockfish Populations: Adaptive Sampling and Hydroacoustics""; ""Ch. 15: Survival Estimation in Bats: Historical Overview, Critical Appraisal, and Suggestions for New Approaches""; ""Ch. 16: Evaluating Methods for Monitoring Population of Mexican Spotted Owls: A Case Study""; ""Part V: The Future""; ""Ch. 17: Future Directions in Estimating Abundnace of Rare or Elusive Species""; ""Contributors""; ""Reviewers""

""About the Editor""

Sommario/riassunto

Information regarding population status and abundance of rare species plays a key role in resource management decisions. Ideally, data should be collected using statistically sound sampling methods, but by their very nature, rare or elusive species pose a difficult sampling challenge.   Sampling Rare or Elusive Species describes the latest sampling designs and survey methods for reliably estimating occupancy, abundance, and other population parameters of rare, elusive, or otherwise hard-to-detect plants and animals. It offers a mixture of theory and application, with actual examples from terrestrial, aquatic, and marine habitats around the world.   Sampling Rare or Elusive Species is the first volume devoted entirely to this topic and provides natural resource professionals with a suite of innovative approaches to gathering population status and trend data. It represents an invaluable reference for natural resource professionals around the world, including fish and wildlife biologists, ecologists, biometricians, natural resource managers, and all others whose work or research involves rare or elusive species.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962566903321

Titolo

Writing a wider war : rethinking gender, race, and identity in the South African War, 1899-1902 / / edited by Greg Cuthbertson, Albert Grundlingh, and Mary-Lynn Suttie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press

Cape Town, : David Philip, c2002

ISBN

0-8214-4191-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CuthbertsonGregor

GrundlinghA. M. <1948->

SuttieMary-Lynn <1953->

Disciplina

968.04/8

Soggetti

South African War, 1899-1902 - Historiography

South African War, 1899-1902 - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: The War One Hundred Years On""; ""Chapter 2: The National Women's Monument""; ""Chapter 3: Gentlemen and Boers""; ""Chapter 4: Afrikaner Nationalism and the Burgher on Commando""; ""Chapter 5: The Role of the Bakgatla of the Pilanesberg in the South African War""; ""Chapter 6: “Loyalty Its Own Reward�""; ""Chapter 7: The Role of the EmaSwati in the South African War""; ""Chapter 8: British Nursing and the South African War""; ""Chapter 9: Women and Disease""; ""Chapter 10: The Politics of War""; ""Chapter 11: Hobson�s The War in South Africa""

""Chapter 12: The Jewish War""""Chapter 13: Taming the God of Battles""; ""Chapter 14: The South African War and Imperial Britain""; ""Chapter 15: Imperial Propaganda during the South African War""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

A century after the South African War (1899-1902), historians are beginning to reevaluate the accepted wisdom regarding the scope of the war, its participants, and its impact. Writing a Wider War charts some of the changing historical constructions of the memorialization of suffering during the war. Writing a Wider War presents a dramatically



new interpretation of the role of Boer women in the conflict and profoundly changes how we look at the making of Afrikaner nationalism. African experiences of the war are also examined, highlighting racial subjugation in the context of colonial war and black participation, and showcasing important new research by African historians. The collection includes a reassessment of British imperialism and probing essays on J. A. Hobson; the masculinist nature of life on commando among Boer soldiers; Anglo-Jewry; secularism; health and medicine; nursing, women, and disease in the concentration camps; and the rivalry between British politicians and generals. An examination of the importance of the South African War in contemporary British political economy, and the part played by imperial propaganda, rounds off a thoroughly groundbreaking reinterpretation of this formative event in South Africa's history.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971100403321

Autore

Adam Alison

Titolo

Artificial knowing : gender and the thinking machine / / Alison Adam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-79355-3

0-203-00505-8

1-134-79356-1

1-280-50648-2

9786610506484

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

v, 210 p

Disciplina

306.4/6

Soggetti

Women - Effect of technological innovations on

Artificial intelligence - Social aspects

Expert systems (Computer science)

Knowledge representation (Information theory)

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-201) and index.



Nota di contenuto

chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 FEMINIST RESOURCES -- chapter 2 AI IN CONTEXT -- chapter 3 THE KNOWING SUBJECT IN AI -- chapter 4 KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE AND RATIONALITY IN AI -- chapter 5 EMBODIMENT AND SITUATEDNESS -- chapter 6 FEMINIST AI PROJECTS AND CYBERFUTURES.

Sommario/riassunto

Alison Adam challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence of the world in her book which re-enforces criticisms of the AI project. Adam also shows how gender bias is programmed into AI-based systems using theories based on feminism.