Balancing Resource Utilization with Resource Protection: The Flower Garden Banks Marine Sanctuary—A Success Story

Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary: Antimicrobial Properties of Bacteria Associated with the Boulder Star Coral, Montastrea faveolata

Overview Corals have been shown to harbor unique microbial communities associated with their surface mucopolysaccharide layer, which is hypothesized to play an important role in defense against invading pathogens (Ritchie and Smith, 2004). In this study, bacterial associates of Montastraea faveolata surface mucus were compared between the healthy, disease-free reefs of the Flower Garden Banks N...

cost-oriented assembly line balancing with resource constraint

in this paper, based on the background of cost-oriented assembly line balancing problems, a novel mathematical model for scheduling and balancing the assembly line is offered that with the combination of task sequence-dependent setup time, parallel stations and resource constraint, minimizes the operational and investment costs of assembly system. due to the complexity of the problem, the equat...

Reconciling resource utilization and resource selection functions.

1. Analyses based on utilization distributions (UDs) have been ubiquitous in animal space use studies, largely because they are computationally straightforward and relatively easy to employ. Conventional applications of resource utilization functions (RUFs) suggest that estimates of UDs can be used as response variables in a regression involving spatial covariates of interest. 2. It has been cl...

Balancing FPGA Resource Utilities

Balancing the use of FGPA resources such as FPGA slices, block RAMs, and block multipliers is desirable in many FPGA applications. This task can be carried out manually by experienced hardware designers with the use of hardware description languages, such as Verilog and VHDL. However, many users of reconfigurable computers are software developers who depend on hardware synthesis tools or even h...

The Coefficient of Resource Utilization