ARE NEOTROPICAL CAVE-BATS GOOD LANDSCAPE INTEGRITY INDICATORS? SOME CLUES WHEN EXPLORING THE CROSS-SCALE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN UNDERGROUND AND ABOVE-GROUND ECOSYSTEMS

Neotropical caves located in pristine ecosystems harbor high biodiversity but face functional shifts and degradation interlinked with aboveground changes.Cave-roosting bats have been proposed as integrity indicators of karst landscapes considering their sensitive to both the underground and aboveground characteristics and resources.In the present s

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a prevalent disorder mostly characterized by persistent impairments in cognitive function that poses a substantial burden on caregivers and the healthcare system worldwide.Crucially, severity classification is primarily based on clinical evaluations, which are non-specific and poorly predictive of long-term disabilit

Singapore is a city-state Calming of 5 million people.The entire urban population has expanded from 4.4 million to 5 million in a matter of 5 years.Because of the scarcity of land available, more major roads and expressways are being run close to residential developments, exposing the residents to expressway noise.Recognizing the problems of noise

In recent years, graph theory has been widely employed to probe several language properties.More specifically, the so-called word adjacency model has been proven useful for tackling several practical problems, especially those relying on textual stylistic analysis.The most common approach to treat texts as networks has simply considered either larg