Despite widespread concern, the continuing effectiveness of networks of protected areas under projected 21st century climate change is uncertain. Shifts in species' distributions could mean these resources will cease to afford protection to those species for which they were originally established. Using modelled projected shifts in the distributions of sub-Saharan Africa's entire breeding avifa...

{ Until recently, VLSI designers rarely considered yield issues when selecting a oorplan for a newly designed chip. This paper demonstrates that for large area VLSI chips, especially those that incorporate some fault tolerance, changes in the oorplan can aaect the projected yield. We study several general oorplan structures, make some speciic recommendations, and apply them to actual VLSI chips...

Some issues on direct-projected augmented reality (DirectAR) are addressed: the projection may be geometrically distorted due to the non-planar surface (geometric distortion); the projection cannot be seen to user as intended because the position of the projector is not the same as that of the user’s viewpoint (viewpoint-ignorant projection); the projection may be modulated by surface color (ra...

Nature harbors crystals of dimensionality ($d$) only up to three. Here we introduce the notion \emph{projected topological branes} (PTBs): Lower-dimensional branes embedded in higher-dimensional parent crystals, constructed via a geometric cut-and-project procedure on Hilbert space lattice Hamiltonian. When such brane is inclined at rational or an irrational slope, either new periodicity quasic...

Substantial changes in the hydrological cycle are projected for the 21st century, but these projections are subject to major uncertainties. In this context, the "dry gets drier, wet gets wetter" (DDWW) paradigm is often used as a simplifying summary. However, recent studies cast doubt on the validity of the paradigm and also on applying the widely used P - E (precipitation - evapotranspiration)...