This paper integrates economic, biological, and physical models to explore the efficient combination and spatial allocation of conservation efforts to protect water quality and increase salmonid populations in the Grande Ronde basin, Oregon. We focus on the effects of shade on water temperatures and the subsequent impacts on endangered juvenile salmonid populations. The integrated modeling syst...

Land managers face a complex set of choices when developing restoration and management strategies to promote resilient landscapes. Restoring landscapes is costly; making full restoration beyond the means of most land management agencies. This necessitates difficult choices and a careful consideration of which areas of the landscapes to restore and how intensively they should be restored to achi...

As wireless sensor network (WSN) is often deployed in a hostile environment, nodes in the networks are prone to large-scale failures, resulting in the network not working normally. In this case, an effective restoration scheme is needed to restore the faulty network timely. Most of existing restoration schemes consider more about the number of deployed nodes or fault tolerance alone, but fail t...

Ecological restoration is a globally important and well-financed management intervention used to combat biodiversity declines and land degradation. Most restoration aims to increase biodiversity towards a reference state, but there are concerns that intended outcomes are not reached due to unsuccessful interventions and land-use legacy issues. Monitoring biodiversity recovery is essential to me...

A retrospective patient record analysis was conducted to study the cost-effectiveness of dental sealants placed under routine, unrestricted practice condition in a fluoridated community. The 26 dentists who provided care at the clinic over the period of the study used their own clinical judgement to determine sealant placement or alternative treatment. Dental services for 275 patients at a chil...

An elimination procedure based on Schur complement calculation is proposed for restoring the nonzero elements of a sparse Jacobian matrix. We provide a sparsity usage parameter that can be specified by users to tune the cost of matrix-vector product calculation and the cost of restoration of the nonzero entries. We employ Pascal seeding to compress the Jacobian matrix. Preliminary numerical tes...

We propose a new family of cost functions for signal and image recovery: they are composed of 1 data fitting terms combined with concave regularization. We exhibit when and how to employ such cost functions. Our theoretical results show that the minimizers of these cost functions are such that each one of their entries is involved either in an exact data fitting component or in a null component...

oday, numerous types of fixed prostheses are available to replace missing teeth. Developments in the field of implantology and adhesive dentistry have increased the options available for the partially edentulous patient but have also made treatment planning more complex. However, it still remains important to identify a positive ‘need’ to restore a space and to undertake a cost-benefit analysis...