Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) is of great value in protecting biodiversity and supporting core ecological processes. It is important to analyze the spatial variation in the growth dynamics of IFL. This study analyzed the change of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) during the growing season (April–October) for boreal (45 ̋ N–70 ̋ N) IFLs and the correlation with climatic variables ...

Traditionally, behavioural and electrophysiological measurements in animals are performed separately; however their combined use has considerably enriched our understanding of, for example, memory-related processes. Especially single unit recordings paved the way and highlighted performance-specific firing characteristics of individual neurones (place cells, phase cell, head direction cell – se...

bionomics of aphis gossypii glover and its predators coccinella septempunctata l. and hippodamia variegata goeze were studied in varamin (tehran province) during 11th may to 5th october 2006 on eggplant crop, with the interaction (density dependence) between the aphid and either of the predators determined. the reliable sample size (number of leaves) with a maximum variation of 6.73% was about ...

This paper describes an analytical technique for quantifying and modeling the frequency of occurrence of integrated circuit failures. The method is based on the analysis of random and clustered defects on wafers with defect monitors. Results from pilot line data of photolithographic defects, insulator short circuits, and leaky pn junctions are presented to support the practicality of the approa...

The authors are grateful to Katherine Magnuson for comments on an earlier draft. This work is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (R372A 150031). Views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of IES or DPI. Any opinions, findings, or concl...

Delivery systems are now the norm in the health care industry. With the incorporation of many entities into one organization, the functionality and maintenance of the master patient index (MPI) has been transformed into a more complex Enterprise MPI (EMPI), which allows a patient to be identified both longitudinally and across the continuum of care. The EMPI becomes the access point for linking...

We construct a compactification of the space of circular planar electrical networks studied by Curtis-Ingerman-Morrow [CIM] and De Verdière-Gitler-Vertigan [dVGV], using cactus networks. We embed this compactification as a linear slice of the totally nonnegative Grassmannian, and relate Kenyon and Wilson’s grove measurements to Postnikov’s boundary measurements. Intersections of the slice with ...

In the most current methods of probabilistic power system production simulation, the output characteristics of new energy power generation (NEPG) has not been comprehensively considered. In this paper, the power output characteristics of wind power generation and photovoltaic power generation are firstly analyzed based on statistical methods according to their historical operating data. Then th...

As wafer sizes increase, the clustering phenomenon of defects increases. Clustered defects cause the conventional Poisson yield model underestimate actual wafer yield, as defects are no longer uniformly distributed over a wafer. Although some yield models, such as negative binomial or compound Poisson models, consider the effects of defect clustering on yield prediction, these models have some ...

background: in the past few decades, indoor air pollution (iap) has become a primary concern to the point. it is increasingly believed to be of equal or greater importance to human health compared to ambient air. however, due to the lack of comprehensive indices for the integrated assessment of indoor air quality (iaq), we aimed to develop a novel, fuzzy-based indoor air quality index (fiaqi) t...