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Minna J. Hsu
Other affiliations: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, National Dong Hwa University
Bio: Minna J. Hsu is an academic researcher from National Sun Yat-sen University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Population. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 86 publications receiving 1548 citations. Previous affiliations of Minna J. Hsu include Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences & Macquarie University.
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TL;DR: The fatty acid composition and the antibacterial and antifungal activities of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME) of the blind-your-eye mangrove plant found along the coastal areas of south India are determined for the first time.
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TL;DR: Data is presented for the first time on the impact of heavy metal pollution on various terrestrial organisms in Taiwan and a strong influence from industrial pollution on the biotic community is revealed.
160 citations
TL;DR: The impact of essential and non-essential/environmentally toxic trace metals (Hg, Pb and Sn) in mangrove and halophytic medicinal plants and the concentrations of Pb among 13 plant species were higher than the normal range of contamination reported for plants.
137 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that minimizing the expected code length implies that the length of a word cannot increase as its frequency increases, and that the mean code length or duration is significantly small in human language and also in other species in all cases where agreement with the law of brevity has been found.
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TL;DR: If people refrain from feeding monkeys and destroying the city park's natural vegetation, monkeys can be used to educate public about nature conservation in an urban setting and provide evidence that food provisioning increased both the frequency and duration of aggression among Formosan macaques.
Abstract: Ecotourism involving feeding wildlife has raised public attention and is a controversial issue, especially concerning nonhuman primates. Between July 2002 and April 2005, the behavior of monkeys and tourists was collected through scan samplings, focal samplings and behavior samplings at the Shou-Shan Nature Park located in Taiwan's second largest city--Kaohsiung. In addition, the number of tourists and monkeys was counted in different hours and places within the park. Four hundred visitors were interviewed using a questionnaire to gather data on sex, age, purpose and frequency of visit to the park. The number of tourists was significantly higher during weekends than in weekdays in all locations. Humans dominated in the initiation of interspecies interactions--the overall ratio of human-initiated and monkey-initiated interactions was 2.44:1. Human-monkey conflicts accounted for only 16.4% of the total interactions (n=2,166), and adult human males and adult male macaques participated in higher rates than other age/sex groups in these conflicts. Visitors showed more affiliative behavior (15.9%) than agonistic behavior (8%) toward the macaques. In response to visitors' threat or attack, the Formosan macaques mostly showed submissive behavior with bared teeth, squealed or ran away to avoid confrontation (69.1%)--only few responded with counteraggression (18.7%). This study for the first time provided evidence that food provisioning increased both the frequency and duration of aggression among Formosan macaques (P<0.001). During food provisioning, the average frequency and the duration of agonistic events of macaques were more than 4 times higher compared with those without food provisioning. The average frequency of food provision by tourists was 0.73 times/hr--more than twice the incident that monkeys grabbed the food from tourists (0.34 times/hr). If people refrain from feeding monkeys and destroying the city park's natural vegetation, monkeys can be used to educate public about nature conservation in an urban setting.
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30 May 2018
TL;DR: Tata Africa Services (Nigeria) Limited as mentioned in this paper is a nodal point for Tata businesses in West Africa and operates as the hub of TATA operations in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa.
Abstract: Established in 2006, TATA Africa Services (Nigeria) Limited operates as the nodal point for Tata businesses in West Africa. TATA Africa Services (Nigeria) Limited has a strong presence in Nigeria with investments exceeding USD 10 million. The company was established in Lagos, Nigeria as a subsidiary of TATA Africa Holdings (SA) (Pty) Limited, South Africa and serves as the hub of Tata’s operations in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa.
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