![]() 2021), limiting their ability to estimate temporal variation in vital rates over the long term (e.g., Leech et al. However, many reintroduction studies span short timeframes (i.e., < 5 years, Parlato et al. This is particularly crucial when a population transitions through the three phases of reintroduction, from ‘establishment’ (where post-release effects drive population dynamics) to ‘growth’ (characterised by high rates of expansion) and, finally, to ‘regulation’ (where density dependence limits survival and recruitment, Sarrazin 2007). This uncertainty can be addressed using robust monitoring of demographic parameters including abundance, survival, and reproduction which can indicate population self-sustainability, density-dependence, carrying capacity, and threats to these processes (e.g., Manning et al. While reintroductions aim to establish a viable and self-sustaining population (IUCN 2013), management decisions must always be made in the face of imperfect knowledge about species and ecosystems (Armstrong and Seddon 2008). Reintroductions are a critical tool used to reverse defaunation and restore ecosystem function (Armstrong and Seddon 2008). These criteria enable managers to quantify the targets required to downlist (reclassify from higher risk to lower risk categories) or delist (remove from the IUCN Red List) a species, and encourages small-scale projects to be unified under long-term visions for species recovery. It provides a repository for information related to species range, population size, threats, and conservation actions, and compares these to broadly applicable and standardised criteria to categorise species from ‘Critically endangered’ to ‘Least concern’. The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN 2021) provides a powerful tool used by conservationists and researchers to list declining species, and galvanise conservation action and policy change (Rodrigues et al. 2006), robust monitoring and species listings are paramount. Restoration presents a major challenge for the next century, but to avoid long-term goals being limited by short-term human memory of ecosystems (i.e., ‘shifting baseline syndrome’, Pauly 1995 Miller 2005 Manning et al. By taking advantage of a rapid life history and harvesting the ‘doomed surplus’, managers can achieve their stretch goals for species recovery in the long term.ĭefaunation in the Anthropocene, driven by human-induced environmental change and destruction, threatens biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human health worldwide (Dirzo et al. Due to the inherent difficulty in securing large areas for species recovery, we see these ambitious targets as a call to create coordinated and collaborative sanctuary networks where species can be managed as a metapopulation across multiple sites. Based on this model, a total harvest area of 413 km 2 and an occupancy area of 437 km 2 would be needed to recover the species within 10 years (i.e., 90 similar fenced reserves, not accounting for edge effects). Our demographic results indicated high mean apparent survival (90% ± 5), and PVAs revealed the probability of persistence over a 50-year time horizon was 50.5% with no interventions, 0% when the population was harvested of > 6 individuals, and 100% if harvests ≤ 54 juveniles were combined with an annual supplementation of ten maternal females (with ≤ 6 young each). After determining sustainable harvest rates, we then ‘back-cast’ the population size and occupancy area required to remove the species from the IUCN Red List within 10 years. We then incorporated the resulting demographic parameters into population viability analyses (PVAs) to estimate probabilities of persistence under several scenarios, including supplementations and harvests (removal of individuals for translocation to other locations). We calculated capture-mark-recapture population estimates for eastern quolls ( Dasyurus viverrinus) which had been reintroduced to a fenced reserve in the Australian Capital Territory. To address this, we investigated how demographic parameters from a reintroduced population can reveal threats to long-term persistence, inform thresholds for management interventions, and create targets for removing an endangered species from the IUCN Red List. It is therefore critical to maximise the number of individuals that are available to contribute to recovery efforts. ![]() Reintroductions are powerful tools for tackling biodiversity loss, but the resulting populations can be intrinsically small and vulnerable.
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It could be a powerful weapon in the battle against Angof the Gravesinger. The wizard Gabrielle Benele asked me to help her recharge the Midnight Talisman. As they struggle to find a way to breech Angof's defenses, they have to fend off hordes of Bloodthorn cultists and zombie thralls. To hold back Angof's undead army, the Lion Guard built a redoubt on a hill outside Cath Bedraud. The time to retake Camlorn from Faolchu has arrived. I stand with Captain Darien Gautier and the rescued Camlorn citizens. General Mandin asked me to help him complete the cure. Then the Lion Guard can surround Faolchu's werewolves and retake the city.Īlinon the Alchemist is working on a way to cure the unique lycanthropy that Faolchu has spread through the city. He hopes to use Darien's master key to unlock the Camlorn gates. General Gautier believes his son Darien, the Captain of the Camlorn Guard is still alive inside the city. The Lion Guard struggles to retake the city, but the odds are against them. The city of Camlorn has fallen to Faolchu and his werewolf legion. Moreover, I still need to figure out how Faolchu was killed in this time period. Now Alana has been taken captive and the remaining soldiers are too few to divide their attention. Now we'll finally learn how Faolchu was originally killed.Īlana and her soldiers were ambushed on their way to confront Faolchu. The spirit of Alana Relin has led me to a crypt that will provide a doorway to the past. They hope to find out what killed him in the past. It's said that Faolchu, the invader of Camlorn, was originally slain here. The Mages Guild is studying the site of the Battle of Glenumbra Moors. She wants me to capture a living werewolf for the ritual she needs to perform. The Duke told me that Gloria has a plan to learn more about Faolchu and how to defeat him. Then the corruption will start to fade.ĭuke Sebastien of Camlorn has been kidnapped by Bloodthorn cultists.ĭuke Sebastien thinks that werewolves may be trying to infiltrate and take over Aldcroft, just as they overthrew Camlorn. Once the Corruption of the Tree is destroyed, the Wyrd Tree will be purified. The guardians wait inside the Wyrd Tree, ready to assist me against the Corruption of the Tree. I should help the Beldama Wyrd save the tree. I agreed to help the Wyrd set the guardians free.Īngof's Bloodthorn cultists threaten the Wyrd Tree. The Wyrd rely on the elemental guardians for guidance and counsel, but the spirits have become mysteriously silent.Īngof Gravesinger has imprisoned the elemental guardians that the Beldama Wyrd rely on for protection and counsel. But the same corruption that caused all this trouble has sapped the roots of their power. ![]() The Beldama Wyrd want to use the roots of the Wyrd Tree to help the villagers get away. The witches of the Beldama Wyrd are trying to contain the situation. ![]() Fire threatens to burn the village to the ground while enraged forest creatures attack the remaining villagers. The village of Deleyn's Mill is under siege. The forest itself seems to have turned against the village of Deleyn's Mill and the villagers are in danger. If the King dies, the entire Daggerfall Covenant could fall apart. It appears that I stumbled right into one of them.īloodthorn assassins plan to kill King Casimir. ![]() The bustling city of Daggerfall holds many mysteries. There are 24 Zone Story Quests in Glenumbra. Completing these quests can award you with skill points, experience, gold, and gear. Zone Story Quests are the main story arc for the zone. Consequently, there is considerable interest in effectively harnessing comparison processes to promote healthy behavior and self-concept. Social comparisons also contribute to mental health conditions such as depression ( Swallow and Kuiper, 1988) and to physical health outcomes such as smoking ( Gerrard et al., 2005), weight loss ( Leahey et al., 2011b), and chronic illness self-care ( Arigo et al., 2015), and comparison is recognized as a key mechanism underlying health behavior change ( Olander et al., 2013). For example, a range of research designs and assessment methods has shown that comparisons can influence intrapsychic states such as affect and attitudes ( Myers, 1978 Buunk et al., 1990), satisfaction with one's current status ( Major and Testa, 1989), and perceptions of risk for negative outcomes ( Klein and Weinstein, 1997). To date, more than six decades of research has demonstrated that self-evaluations relative to others (i.e., social comparisons) have important implications for well-being and health ( Buunk and Gibbons, 2007 Gerber et al., 2018). We describe key decision points for future work to help advance within-person naturalistic assessment methods and improve the utility of such approaches to inform research, theory, and intervention. Findings broadly establish heterogeneity in the aspects of comparison considered critical for within-person naturalistic assessment. However, there was considerable heterogeneity in the number of assessments, assessment periods, recording modalities, and comparison predictors and outcomes assessed. other comparison dimensions) and collected information in response to signals (rather than initiated by participants). Most studies assessed appearance comparisons (vs. In articles meeting these criteria (33 unique studies across 36 published papers), we summarized aspects of the comparison assessment, including recording methods, direction (e.g., upward, downward), target (e.g., friend, stranger), and dimension (e.g., status, appearance). Articles were included if they described at least 3 comparison assessments within each participant, taken in the natural environment, and spaced no more than ~24 h apart (i.e., repeated momentary or daily assessment). ![]() Searches in PubMed, PsycInfo, and CINAHL identified relevant articles published before June 2019. To address this gap, the aims of this scoping review were: (1) to summarize available literature on within-person naturalistic assessment of social comparison, and (2) to provide a set of key considerations to inform future social comparison research using within-person naturalistic assessment. Although promising, this work to date lacks an overarching conceptual framework for guiding decisions about assessment design and implementation. Research across social and clinical psychology has implemented methods to assess comparisons naturalistically, involving intensive, repeated assessments of comparison occurrence, characteristics, and consequences in everyday life (via ecological momentary assessment or daily diaries). Global, retrospective assessment forces aggregation across contexts and reduces ecological validity, limiting its utility for informing a nuanced understanding of comparisons in daily life. Yet, comparison is inherently a dynamic, within-person process comparisons occur at different times, on a range of dimensions, with consequences that can vary by context. Self-evaluations relative to others (i.e., social comparisons) have well-established implications for health and well-being, and are typically assessed via global, retrospective self-report. ![]() 4Departments of Biobehavioral Health and Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States. ![]()
![]() While a 2012 World Health Organization report found that “predicted (health) risks remain low” following the Fukushima disaster, in the two locations where residents experienced the highest doses of radiation, the WHO said a 4% to 7% greater risk of developing certain forms of cancer such as leukemia was expected.Īs the Fukushima plant was melting down, more than 300,000 people living nearby were evacuated, according to the Red Cross.įive years after the disaster, tens of thousands still live in temporary housing only intended to last 24 months. “And that’s very dangerous for the future.” “There’s still an enormous amount of radioactivity there which is not controlled, in liquid form, leaking into the underground, and slowly moving into the ocean,” said Greenpeace Japan campaigner Jan Vande Putte. TEPCO estimates that cleanup operations could take up to 40 years. How the water and earth will be disposed of isn’t clear. The government has also spent more than $1.5 billion collecting radioactive soil and earth from the surrounding area, which now sits in thousands of industrial-sized black bags looking like the world’s deadliest grain harvest. Some 800,000 tons of highly-radioactive water now sit in hastily-built tanks at the site, enough to fill 315 Olympic-sized swimming pools, with around 400 tons added to the tanks every day. “If the tsunami caused the plant to lose power to cool the reactors, it would be a disaster.” His first thought was of the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Saito recalls staring helplessly out of his hospital room window as waves inundated the town beneath him. The earthquake and tsunami were just the beginning however. More than 20,000 people died or went missing in the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, while hundreds of thousands more lost their homes. The impact also raised huge waves up to 40 meters high that, as people were still reeling from the aftershocks, began crashing into the country. The quake was so strong that it permanently moved Japan’s main island, Honshu, more than two meters to the east. Medical equipment came crashing to the floor.įor almost six minutes on March 11, 2011, the 9.0 magnitude earthquake - the worst to ever hit Japan - rocked the country. The 65-year old had just undergone surgery for prostate cancer and was recuperating when the walls of his 6th floor room began to shake. Soichi Saito was in hospital when the earthquake hit. ![]() Shopping Centers: Vienna Shopping Center (1), Grand Central Mall Shopping Center (2). Notable locations in Vienna: Neal Island Light (A), Vienna Volunteer Fire Department (B). AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH OF WEST VIRGINIA (417 GRAND PARK DRIVE, SUITE 203).GRAND CENTRAL DIALYSIS (800 GRAND CENTRAL).Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 10 Emergencies Declared: 4 Causes of natural disasters: Floods: 8, Storms: 7, Landslides: 4, Mudslides: 3, Hurricanes: 2, Winds: 2, Winter Storms: 2, Blizzard: 1, Snowfall: 1, Tornado: 1, Other: 1 (Note: some incidents may be assigned to more than one category). On at 17:51:04, a magnitude 5.8 (5.8 MW, Depth: 3.7 mi, Class: Moderate, Intensity: VI - VII) earthquake occurred 218.1 miles away from the city center On at 18:52:21, a magnitude 5.2 (5.1 MB, 4.7 MS, 5.0 UK, 5.2 UK) earthquake occurred 150.9 miles away from Vienna center On at 19:52:52, a magnitude 5.2 (4.8 MB, 4.3 MS, 5.2 LG, 4.5 MW, Depth: 3.1 mi) earthquake occurred 161.5 miles away from the city center On at 16:46:43, a magnitude 5.0 (5.0 MB) earthquake occurred 158.8 miles away from Vienna center On at 12:07:37, a magnitude 5.1 (5.1 MW, Depth: 4.7 mi) earthquake occurred 198.6 miles away from the city center On at 02:28:09, a magnitude 4.6 (4.5 MB, 4.6 LG, Class: Light, Intensity: IV - V) earthquake occurred 150.2 miles away from Vienna center Magnitude types: regional Lg-wave magnitude (LG), body-wave magnitude (MB), surface-wave magnitude (MS), moment magnitude (MW) Natural disasters: The number of natural disasters in Wood County (15) is near the US average (15). ![]() Earthquake activity: Vienna-area historical earthquake activity is significantly above West Virginia state average. wind speeds 113-157 mph) tornado 4.9 miles away from the city center caused $2 million in damages. wind speeds 261-318 mph) tornado 49.7 miles away from the Vienna city center killed 7 people and injured 93 people and caused between $500,000 and $5,000,000 in damages. 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It ranges from deep brown to reddish-brown with subtle black and amber undertones, which creates a stunning contrast against greenery in outdoor settings. One of the most notable features of IPE wood is its rich, warm color. IPE wood is a dense and hard material that can withstand even the harshest outdoor environments, making it ideal for use in decking, outdoor furniture, and other exterior applications. This species of wood is native to Central and South America and is known for its incredible strength and resistance to wear and tear. ![]() IPE wood, also known as Brazilian Walnut, is a beautiful and durable hardwood that has become increasingly popular in recent years. ![]() Many camera models have already integrated the corresponding function. Thanks to increasingly advanced technology, this look is also possible with individual shots, a series of exposures is not absolutely necessary. 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When your USB flash drive is write-protected, you can't move or delete the files in it, either. When the process is finished, close the command prompt window, and try to delete the file again. Select disk X (X is the number of your write-protected disk) Type the following command lines one by one. Then type cmd to open the Command Prompt. Press Windows R keys at the same time to open the Run box. Just follow our guide step-by-step, you can do it on your own. Don't worry if you haven't used Command Prompt before. ![]() To disable the disk write protection, you can use the Windows Command Prompt. Remove Write Protection Using Command PromptĪnother cause of a write-protected file is that the whole disk is actually write-protected. Then try once again to see if you can delete the file now. Uncheck the Read-only option, click OK to save your change. ![]() If the Read-only option is checked, that's maybe the reason why you failed to delete this file. Under the General tab, there is an "Attributes" option. Right-click the target file, and choose Properties. Open File Explorer, find the file you want to delete. ![]() If the file you want to delete is stored on your local disk, you could check the file status in Properties first, and disable the read-only protection. And this is also the topic of this article, how to delete write-protected files, or we can say, how to remove write protection. It means you must disable the write-protection first, and then try to delete the file. And the Windows system would inform that the reason why you can't delete the target file is that it is write-protected. 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Unfortunately, eight of the nine members in Wild 9 have been kidnapped by the evil Karn, and it's up to the remaining member, Wex, to rescue them and dispose of his nemesis once and for all. The game follows the story of Wex Major, leader of the Wild 9, a team made up of individuals with offbeat attributes, personalities (multiple ones, in some instances) and powers.
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