Increasing attention is being paid on leaf area index (LAI) retrieval in mountainous areas.Mountainous areas present extreme topographic variability, and are characterized by more spatial heterogeneity and inaccessibility compared with flat terrain.It is difficult to collect representative ground-truth measurements, and the validation of LAI in mou
Victims of cybercrime in Europe: a review of victim surveys
Abstract Objectives Review the evidence provided by victim surveys in order to provide a rough estimate of the personal crime prevalence of the main types of cybercrime.Methods We performed a search in databases, searched online, and contacted several Custom Mug Offices for National Statistics in Europe and selected surveys that provided informatio
COS-PPA: protocol to develop a core outcome set for primary progressive aphasia
Introduction The term primary progressive aphasia (PPA) describes a group of language-led dementias.Disease-modifying treatments that delay, slow or reverse progression of PPA are currently lacking, though a number of interventions to manage the symptoms of PPA have been developed in recent years.Unfortunately, studies exploring the effectiveness o
Dynamics of the abundance of cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) in the conditions of the altitudinal-belt heterogeneity of the North Caucasus
The work provides data on the dynamics of the abundance of 205 taxa from 19 genera: Cleptes, Colpopyga, Elampus, Omalus, Philoctetes, Pseudomalus, Hedychridium, Hedychrum, Holopyga, Chrysidea, Chrysis, Euchroeus, Chrysura, Pseudochrysis, Spinolia, Spinolia, including species rare and new for the fauna of the North Caucasus and Russia.By the nature