East Indian Hygrophila: Hygrophila polysperma (Roxb.) T. Anderson by Lyn A. Gettys, Stephen F. Enloe

“…East Indian hygrophila was first introduced to the United States as an aquarium plant around 1945. The first recorded sighting of East Indian hygrophila in Florida occurred near Tampa in 1965; by 1980, it had become a weed problem in southern Florida canals, and by 1994 it had spread to 18 of Florida’s public water bodies. …”
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Have you seen a skinny alligator in south Florida? [trifold brochure] by Michiko Squires, Avishka Godahewa, Justin R. Dalaba, Laura A. Brandt, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…This brochure serves as a guide for citizen scientists on how to score alligator body condition and report sightings of very skinny or unhealthy alligators. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw461 …”
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Unseen: Advancing Digital Accessibility with Binaural Audio Technology in an Immersive Gaming Prototype by Claudia Susie C. Rodrigues, Vitoria Nazareth, Ramon O. Azevedo, Priscyla Barbosa, Cláudia Werner

“…Its primary objective is to deliver a immersive audiogaming encounter, catering to both sighted gamers and individuals with visual impairments. …”
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POI recommendation by incorporating trust-distrust relationship in LBSN by Jinghua ZHU, Qian MING

“…POI (point of interest) recommendation is an important personalized service in the LBSN (location-based social network) which has wide applications such as popular sights recommendation and travel routes planning.Most existing collaborative filter algorithms make recommendation according to user similarity and location similarity,they don’t consider the trust relationship between users.And trust relationship is helpful to improve recommendation accuracy,robustness and user satisfaction.Firstly,the propagation property of trust and distrust relationship was analyzed.Then,the measurement and computation method of trust were given.Finally,a hybrid recommendation system which combined user similarity,geographical location similarity and trust relationship was proposed.The experiments results show that the hybrid recommendation is obviously superior to the traditional collaborative filtering in terms of results accuracy and user satisfaction.…”
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Status of Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris Rodentia: Hydrochaeridae) and Potential for Establishment in Florida by Brandon Parker, C. Jane Anderson, Christina M. Romagosa, Samantha M. Wisely, Daniel Pearson, John Seyjagat, Katherine Ashley Sayler

“…Jane Anderson, Christina Romagosa, Samantha Wisely, Daniel Pearson, John Seyjagat, and Katherine Ashley Sayler and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation describes capybaras, explains how they got to Florida, and shows where the semiaquatic, herbivorous rodents have been sighted so far. edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw438 …”
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Status of Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris Rodentia: Hydrochaeridae) and Potential for Establishment in Florida by Brandon Parker, C. Jane Anderson, Christina M. Romagosa, Samantha M. Wisely, Daniel Pearson, John Seyjagat, Katherine Ashley Sayler

“…Jane Anderson, Christina Romagosa, Samantha Wisely, Daniel Pearson, John Seyjagat, and Katherine Ashley Sayler and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation describes capybaras, explains how they got to Florida, and shows where the semiaquatic, herbivorous rodents have been sighted so far. edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw438 …”
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Development of a System to Assist Automatic Translation of Hand-Drawn Maps into Tactile Graphics and Its Usability Evaluation by Jianjun Chen, Noboru Takagi

“…Tactile maps are used by blind and partially sighted people when navigating around an environment, and they are also used prior to a visit for orientation purposes. …”
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Have you seen a skinny alligator in south Florida? [trifold brochure] by Michiko Squires, Avishka Godahewa, Justin R. Dalaba, Laura A. Brandt, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…This brochure serves as a guide for citizen scientists on how to score alligator body condition and report sightings of very skinny or unhealthy alligators. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw461 …”
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Les ors surréalistes de la monnaie gauloise by Raphaël Neuville

“…As a rupture with tradition, a new Antiquity is offered to sights. But this reinterpretation is not reduced to a numismatic erudition. …”
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Expanding the knowledge of Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea Pallas, 1764) distribution in Serbia: New findings and implications for conservation by Nikolić Marko Lj., Medenica Ivan J.

“…Observations were conducted at various localities across Serbia, including Jezero Ćelije, Begečka Jama, Smilovci Lake, Aleksandrovačko Lake, Sava shipyard, fish farms of Novi Kneževac, Bečej, and Čenta, as well as the Special Nature Reserve Slano Kopovo. These sightings contribute to our understanding of the species' distribution within Serbia and underscore the importance of ongoing monitoring efforts. …”
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Population Ecology and Possible Threats to Defassa Waterbuck (Kobus Ellipsiprymnus Defassa) in the Nechsar National Park, Ethiopia by Birtukan Tsegaye Demisse, Gatriay Tut Deng

“…The distribution of waterbuck sightings among habitat types differed by season (χ2 = 15.97, df = 3, p<0.05). …”
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“Magic Portraits Drawn by the Sun”: New Orleans, Yellow Fever, and the sense(s) of death in Josh Russell’s Yellow Jack by Owen Robinson

“…In ways comparable to the horrors of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in 2005, the series of yellow fever epidemics that devastated New Orleans through the nineteenth century were also the result, in part, of the city’s geographical position, its unforgiving climate, and the policies of interested parties; the fever’s awful death toll was likewise accompanied by a grotesque array of sights, sounds and smells. This article will focus upon Josh Russell’s 1999 novel Yellow Jack, which provides a complex portrait of the mid-nineteenth-century city, its fever epidemics, and its conflicting narratives. …”
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Wintering Areas of the White-Tailed Eagle in Southern Kazakhstan by Elena S. Chalikova

“…In the Turkestan Region it is present during migration and wintering periods with the earliest sighting on September 10 (2018), and the latest on March 23 (2021) (Koksarai Reservoir, Gubin, 2020). …”
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The review of the language position to the lyric style of Orfi Shirazi by Esmaeil Tajbakhash, Orang Ezadi

“…This poet who has a sharp-sighted look and an over filled mind has been successful either to the new content creation or to the innovation of the new compositions and words. …”
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Working with all nations and all relatives in feeding the future by Shaileshkumar Shukla

“… Most unprecedented changes and challenges to planetary health that include earth and human health, are attributed to short-sighted policies and systemic barriers. Standardized and top-down approaches of development that often dominate through limited, persuasive, and extractive euro-centric perspectives often dominate in Turtle Island and most colonial regions of the world. …”
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A Model for Service Life Control of Selected Device Systems by Zieja Mariusz, Ważny Mariusz

“…In the end, a numerical example based on operational data of selected aircraft [weapon] sights was presented. The elaborated method can be also applied to determining residual life of shipboard devices whose technical state is determined on the basis of analysis of values of diagnostic parameters.…”
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Assessing the impact of stony coral tissue loss disease on coral cover on Bonaire’s Leeward side by Bernardo A. Pepe, Viggo Van der Roest, Olivier Vlam, Sam Nouse, Erik Meesters

“…The effects of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in the Dutch Caribbean, specifically in Bonaire, have not been documented since its first sighting in March 2023. By comparing the results of the 2023 surveys with data from previous surveys conducted over the past 9 years, this study quantifies the overall decline in coral cover and investigates the spatial variability of SCTLD’s impact across different subregions of the reef on the leeward side of Bonaire. …”
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Marriage and the Concept of Ubale, the Sanctity and the Ridicule: Ulale-Mobà as a Case Study by Oladiipo Ajiboye

“…Ùlále ̣ ̀ displays a long marriage process that could span two decades depending on the level at which a would-be bride is sighted by her suitor and approved of by her parents as found in ìnna síse ‘obligatory responsibility to in-laws’. …”
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Editorial by James Wilhelm, Boris Kühn, Antony Mason

“…On the one hand, the maxim that each generation has the right to act in a self-determining way has led to a political culture in which present generations pursue short-sighted and generationally specific objectives. By the same token, as Hans Jonas has argued, mankind’s realisation that his ability to transform nature for his own purposes may lead to irreversible environmental damage has led to the call for a new ethics for future generations. …”
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Impacts of the installation of basking banks on four UK reptile species in a before–after control–intervention experiment by Brian J. Pickles, Jenny Tse‐Leon

“…Our small‐scale BACI study suggests basking banks attracted barred grass snakes from the surrounding area, which saw a corresponding increase in European adder sightings.…”
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