The LIWAS Traffic Warning System aims at providing early warning to vehicles about slippery conditions on the road. The LIWAS system is currently under development and consists of two main parts: sensors for measuring and classifying the state of the road, and a communication infrastructure for distributing road-state information to vehicles. This paper concentrates on the communication infrast...

Circadian clocks are a great evolutionary innovation and provide competitive advantage during the day/night cycle and under changing environmental conditions. The circadian clock mediates expression of a large proportion of genes in plants, achieving a harmonious relationship between energy metabolism, photosynthesis, and biotic and abiotic stress responses. Here it is shown that multiple paral...

Flooding is the limiting condition of stable countercurrent gas-liquid flow in columns and has been the subject of extensive research over a number of decades. An exhaustive review of the subject, as pertaining to unpacked columns, has been given by Bankoff and Lee.1 While a number of correlations exist in the literature to predict the onset of flooding, the topic of the mechanism of flooding h...

Hypoxia is a potential threat to various horticultural cropsin lands prone to flooding. Citrus is mostly known as a sub-tropical crop that is often exposed to environmental stresses. In order to evaluate response of six different citrus genotypes, including sour orange, rough lemon, Trifoliate orange, Troyer citrange and two local genotypes labeled; CRC1 and CRC2 to flooding conditions, an expe...

Geocasting is the delivery of a message to nodes within a geographical region. With geocast, new services and applications are feasible like finding friends that are nearby, geographic advertising and accident or wrong–way driver warning on a motorway. In this paper we present a survey on geocast routing protocols. The protocols mainly differ in whether they are based on flooding, directed floo...

The aim of the study is to investigate the relative importance of plant-plant interactions with regard to flooding and drought effect on perennial plant performances in wetlands. Flooding is expected to be the major driver and, accordingly, the importance of drought is hardly if ever taken into account. Focusing on five widespread species, the growth, the survival and the competitive ability of...

Tidal flooding is among the most tangible present-day effects of global sea level rise. Here, we utilize a set of NOAA tide gauges along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts to evaluate the potential impact of future sea level rise on the frequency and severity of tidal flooding. Using the 2001-2015 time period as a baseline, we first determine how often tidal flooding currently occurs. Using localize...

Distylium chinense is an evergreen shrub used for the vegetation recovery of floodplain and riparian areas in Three Gorges Reservoir Region. To clarify the morphological and physiological responses and tolerance of Distylium chinense to off-season flooding, a simulation flooding experiment was conducted during autumn and winter. Results indicated that the survival rate of seedlings was 100%, an...

Probabilistic flooding has been frequently considered as a suitable dissemination information approach for limiting the large message overhead associated with traditional (full) flooding approaches that are used to disseminate globally information in unstructured peer-to-peer and other networks. A key challenge in using probabilistic flooding is the determination of the forwarding probability s...