CHANGES IN VEGETATION DIVERSITY AND COMPOSITION FOLLOWING LIVESTOCK REMOVAL ALONG AN UPLAND ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT

Changes in vegetation diversity and composition following livestock removal along an upland elevational gradient

European heathland habitats are cultural landscapes derived from previously-forested ecosystems.Heathlands are of significant conservation interest but have experienced prolonged degradation due to a range of factors including overgrazing by domestic livestock.There is growing recognition of the need to restore upland landscapes to produce a divers

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A Method for Determining Intrinsic Mode Function Number in Variational Mode Decomposition and Its Application to Bearing Vibration Signal Processing

Variational mode decomposition (VMD) method has been widely used in the field of signal processing with significant advantages over other decomposition methods in eliminating modal Jumpers aliasing and noise robustness.The number (usually denoted by K) of intrinsic mode function (IMF) has a great influence on decomposition results.When dealing with

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Assessing country performances during the COVID-19 pandemic: a standard deviation based range of value method

In this paper, we compare the pandemic management performance of 22 countries that belong to the middle-high income class based on criteria including the pandemic data, population characteristics, and health system capacity.The management of the COVID-19 pandemic requires considering many and TREATMENT FOR COLOURED HAIR often conflicting aspects at

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