Solar radiation directly and indirectly drives a variety of ecosystem processes. Our aim was to evaluate how tree canopy architecture affects near-ground, incoming solar radiation along gradients of increasing tree cover, referred to as the grassland–forest continuum. We evaluated a common type of canopy architecture: tall trees that generally have their lowest level of foliage high above, rath...

This project focused on the development of methodology for the near-real-time estimation of earthquake strong ground motion with the objective of providing this information on a regional (statewide) scale. A critical objective of our development was to provide seamless implementation and uniform performance in varied network coverage. To accomplish this goal we: 1) refined a finite fault invers...

adequate coverage is one of the main problems for distributed wireless sensor networks and the effectiveness of that highly depends on the sensor deployment scheme. given a finite number of sensors, optimizing the sensor deployment will provide sufficient sensor coverage and save power of sensors for movement to target location to adequate coverage. in this paper, we apply fuzzy logic system to...

When testing software, testers rarely use only one technique to generate tests that, they hope, will fulfill their testing criteria. Malaiya showed that testers switch strategies when testing yield saturates. We present and evaluate a stopping rule that can be used to determine when it is time to switch to a different testing technique, because the current one is not likely to increase criteria...

Linked faults are very important for memory testing because they reduce the fault coverage of the tests. Their analysis has proven to be a source for new memory tests, characterized by an increased fault coverage for a given test time. This paper presents an analysis of linked faults, based on the concept of fault primitives, such that the whole space of linked faults is investigated, accounted...

Among other things, the modern game of football is characterised by pronounced group and team-oriented tactical abilities. Of particular importance is thereby zone defence or zone coverage, which is used by almost all teams playing at an elevated level of performance. In contrast to man-marking, this more efficient form of organisation is very difficult to convey, as attention must at any given...

I discuss the possibility that white dwarfs might harbor habitable planets at 0.01 AU that arrive there after the red giant phase. These planets would be detectable with ground-based telescopes via deep transits of the star, and a transit survey of the nearest white dwarfs would favor detection of Earth-temperature planets, assuming they could form as close as twice the Roche limit. I show that...

In this paper the matching behaviour of MOS transistors is analyzed for the realization of an intrinsic– accuracy 14 bit current–steering D/A–converter. It is well known that the area of a MOS transistor is inversely proportional to the mismatch (Pelgrom mismatch model), related through a technology constant. Also the influence of metal coverage on the mismatch of MOS transistors has been repor...

Adsorption of para-hydrogen on the surface of graphite pre-plated with a single atomic layer of krypton, is studied theoretically by means of path integral ground state Monte Carlo simulations. We compute energetics and density profiles of para-hydrogen, and determine the structure of the adsorbed film for various coverages. Results show that there are two thermodynamically stable monolayer pha...

Most of the linguistic resources available to day are about the world’s major languages. This paper discusses two projects which have world-wide coverage as their aim. Glottolog/Langdoc is an attempt to attain near-complete bibliographical coverage for the world’s lesser-known languages (i.e. 95% of the world’s linguistic diversity), which then provides solid empirical ground for extensional de...