Forest cover is an important input variable for assessing changes to carbon stocks, climate and hydrological systems, biodiversity richness, and other sustainability science disciplines. Despite incremental improvements in our ability to quantify rates of forest clearing, there is still no definitive understanding on global trends. Without timely and accurate forest monitoring methods, policy r...

Individual identification of the relatively cryptic forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) at forest clearings currently provides the highest quality monitoring data on this ecologically important but increasingly threatened species. Here we present baseline data from the first 20 years of an individually based study of this species, conducted at the Dzanga Clearing, Central African Republic. A t...

We provide a model for a futures clearinghouse to use for setting optimal levels of clearing margin, capital and price limits, which minimizes the costs to clearing firms and simultaneously protects the clearinghouse from default by clearing firms. We show how to estimate the capital requirement, which supports the clearinghouse s residual default risk that is not covered by the clearing margin...

© 2009 Microbac Laboratories, Inc. Page 1 of 7 The purpose of Viral Clearance evaluation is to assess the capability of a manufacturing production process to inactivate and/or remove potential viral contaminants. Experience and knowledge in selecting the most relevant target viruses, appropriate purification steps, and viral clearing agents are critical in the design and implementation of a cos...

This paper presents the Clearing Fund Protocol, a three layered protocol designed to schedule soft real-time sets of precedence related tasks with shared resources. These sets are processed in an open dynamic environment. Open because new applications may enter the system at any time and dynamic because the schedulability is tested on-line as tasks request admission. Top-down, the three layers ...

We consider the problem of representing the capabilities of production systems to convert inputs into outputs over time in the face of deterministic demand. The fact that planning models generally operate in discrete-time while the factory being modeled operates in continuous time suggests the use of multimodel methods combining an optimization model that plans the releases into the plant over ...

Visualizing the three-dimensional morphology and spatial patterning of cells embedded deep within dense connective tissues of the musculoskeletal system has been possible only by utilizing destructive techniques. Here we utilize fructose-based clearing solutions to image cell connectivity and deep tissue-scale patterning in situ by standard confocal microscopy. Optical clearing takes advantage ...

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