European crayfish species are a clear example of the drastic decline that freshwater species are experiencing.In particular, the native species of the Iberian Peninsula, the white clawed-crayfish (WCC) Austropotamobius pallipes, is listed as "endangered" by the IUCN and included in Annex II of the EU Habitat Directive and requires especially attent
Location data is valuable for various applications such as epidemiology, natural disasters, and urban planning but causes exposure of sensitive information, e.g., home or work place, from collected data in a datastore.Local Differential Privacy (LDP)-based data collection is a promising technology to protect sensitive information.A mobile device mo
The optical output power of a laser diode is modulated by the self-mixing effect when the optical beam is back-reflected or back-scattered into the laser cavity by a target.The optical feedback factor C is the most important one that defines the feature of the self-mixing signals (SMSs).And the estimation Tips of C is indispensable for the displace
Abstract Beluga Whale Optimization (BWO) is a new metaheuristic algorithm that simulates the social behaviors of beluga whales swimming, foraging, and whale falling.Compared with other optimization algorithms, BWO shows certain advantages in solving unimodal and multimodal optimization problems.However, the convergence speed and optimization perfor
Observations of federally endangered Southern Security Cables Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were compiled for the southern California Distinct Population Segment (DPS) that extends approximately 500 kilometers from the Santa Maria River (Santa Barbara County) south to the Mexican border.Existing monitoring programs and anecdotal observation