Based on Hovenkamp's ideas on historical biogeography, we present a method for analysis of taxon history, spatial analysis of vicariance, which uses observed distributions as data, thus requiring neither predefined areas ...

The legality of wood products often depends on their origin, creating a need for forensic tools that verify claims of provenance for wood products. The neotropical tree species Cedrela odorata (Spanish cedar) is economically ...

Background: Maize landraces from South America have traditionally been assigned to two main categories: Andean and Tropical Lowland germplasm. However, the genetic structure and affiliations of the lowland gene pools have ...

Optimal control strategies for Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticercosis have not been determined. We conducted a 2-year cluster randomized trial in Peru by assigning 23 villages to 1 of 3 geographically targeted intervention ...

The international seafood trade has adopted the food chain or “from farm to fork” concept in terms of standards and regulations regarding food quality, safety and authenticity, from primary production to the consumer. ...

The paper deals with a school redistricting problem in which blocks of a city must be assigned to schools according to diverse criteria. Previous approaches are reviewed and some desired properties of a good school districting ...

This work describes the approach used by the RECOD team in the MediaEval Placing Task of 2013, in which we were required to develop an automatic scheme to assign geographical locations to images. Our approach is multimodal, ...

Detailed large-scale information on mammal distribution has often been lacking, hindering conservation efforts. We used the information from the 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as a baseline for developing habitat ...