WOODY LIANAS INCREASE IN DOMINANCE AND MAINTAIN COMPOSITIONAL INTEGRITY ACROSS AN AMAZONIAN DAM-INDUCED FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE.

Woody lianas increase in dominance and maintain compositional integrity across an Amazonian dam-induced fragmented landscape.

Tropical forest fragmentation creates insular biological communities that undergo species loss and changes in community composition over time, due to area- and edge-effects.Woody lianas thrive in degraded and secondary forests, due to their competitive advantage over trees in these habitats.Lianas compete both directly and indirectly with trees, in

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A semi-supervised approach of short text topic modeling using embedded fuzzy clustering for Twitter hashtag recommendation

Abstract Social media stands as a crucial information source across various real-world challenges.Platforms like Twitter, extensively used by news outlets for real-time updates, categorize news via hashtags.These hashtags act as pivotal meta-information for linking tweets to underlying themes, yet Geri Chairs many tweets lack them, posing challenge

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Current distribution of wind in Morocco

Information about wind is widely used in many sectors of the economy.Wind also causes many dangerous and extreme weather events.Modern climate changes require a certain revision of weather patterns previously accepted for the area.This article provides information on the current space and time distribution of wind characteristics within the territo

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Surgical Antimicrobial Prophylaxis—Where Do We Stand?

Introduction Surgical site infection (SSI) is the commonest preventable health care–associated infection among postoperative cases.Several guidelines are available for surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SAP) and other measures which prevent SSI.National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), India, has also provided a guideline for prevention of SSI

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