Ifugao province of the Philippines has a traditional muyong forest system that supplies water and prevents soil erosion of the world-famous Ifugao rice terraces.The socio-political structure of Ifugao has been the key to the maintenance and communal use of land, as well as the muyong forest, without causing excessive damage to the land.Recently, th
In busy nightstick twm-850xl offshore waters with high vessel density and intersecting shipping lanes, the risk of collisions and accidents is significantly increased.To address the problem of insufficient feature extraction capability of traditional recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in ship trajectory prediction in busy nearshore areas, this paper
Abstract Background The incorporation of multiple types of knowledge (e.g., science, Indigenous knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge) is an important undertaking, which can strengthen the evidence-base for policy advice, decision making, and environmental management.While the benefits of incorporating multiple types of knowledge in environme
Acanthamoeba is a free-living amoeba commonly present in the environment and often found in human airway cavities.Acanthamoeba possesses strong proteases that can elicit allergic airway inflammation.To our knowledge, the aeroallergenicity of Acanthamoeba has not been reported.We repeatedly inoculated mice cent dyyni with Acanthamoeba trophozoites o