A general model of the Dolichopoda cave cricket life cycle was produced using RAMAS/stage simulations based on the Beverton & Holt recruitment function. The model indicates the main population parameters responsible for life cycle adjustments to ecologically different cave habitats. The lack of a uniform rate of oviposition throughout adult life, combined with egg and nymphal diapause, results in regular population growth characterized by adults emerging every two years and cohorts overlapping every other year. This pattern is common in populations living in artificial caves where the scarcity of food is likely to favour individuals that synchronise their activity with the seasonal variations in the epigean habitat. In contrast, a uniform rate of oviposition throughout adult life and no egg or nymphal diapause results in a continuous reproductive activity, and the occurrence of adults all the year round. In this case, it was not possible to distinguish between cohorts. This pattern is well represented in populations inhabiting natural caves with stable food resources. The availability of data for a population that resulted from an experimental colonization allowed us to test this model.
Prediction of reservoir level fluctuation is important in the operation, design, and security of dams. In this paper, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is used for modeling. In such modeling approaches, it is possible to determine dam reservoir level and water balance (budget) by taking the monthly average precipitation and needed parameters into consideration. The basic data are available for over 29 years at the Tahtakőprű Dam in the southeast Mediterranean region of Turkey. As a sub-approach of ANN, a multi layer perceptron (MLP) is used. Bayesian regularization back-propagation training algorithm is employed for optimization of the network. MLP results are compared with the results of conventional multiple linear regression (MLR) and autoregressive (AR) models. The comparison shows that the ANN model provides better performance than the mentioned models in reservoir level estimation.
The four decades of breath-taking political and economic changes in China raise a host of questions about the governance of this, in many ways unique, world power. The authors analyse the economic, political and historical context of the origins and operation of the present-day Chinese political model, the country’s legal system and the role of the Communist Party in the Chinese society, similar in many ways to the role previously played by China’s imperial dynasties. They also highlight the new trends in Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy of the late 2010s, which bear witness to a sustained effort of the Chinese political leadership to enhance China’s great-power status on the global stage., Miloš Balabán, Michal Tomášek., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy