Understanding the relationships between species, their environment, and factors that determine their distribution and abundance has historically been a goal of ecological theory (MacArthur, 1972; Guisan & Zimmermann, 2000). The topic continues to be pertinent, as ongoing environmental change is likely to alter species ranges and shift their patterns of habitat ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral...

Abstract In this paper, the constitutive equation parameters (Johnson–Cook parameters) of 33MnCrB5 material were determined with help tensile tests. Initially, Johnson–Cook (JC) model was used for performing simulations sample finite element analysis ANSYS software. For these operations, first at a certain temperature (24 °C) and low strain rates (10 −1 , 10 −2 −3 s ) quasi-static tests perform...

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) based techniques have become increasingly available to simulate metal cutting process and offer several advantages including prediction of tool forces, distribution of stresses and temperatures, estimation of tool wear, optimization of cutting conditions, tool edge geometry and coatings, and determination of residual stresses on machined surfaces. However, accuracy...

[1] Several state‐of‐the‐art general circulation models (GCMs) predict that large volcanic eruptions should result in anomalous dry conditions throughout much of monsoon Asia. Here, we use long and well‐validated proxy reconstructions of Asian droughts and pluvials to detect the influence of volcanic radiative forcing on the hydroclimate of the region since the late Medieval period. Superposed ...

0 f as the specular reflectance for the normal direction. n is the normal vector,  is the outgoing direction and  is the incident direction. Since then, physically based shading models have been rapidly adopted in the game industry. There are and will continue to be many titles that use energy-conserving and/or normalized shading models that include physically based parameters. Our physicall...

We present a higher-order functional notation for polynomial-time computation with an arbitrary 0; 1valued oracle. This formulation provides a linguistic characterization for classes such as NP and BPP, as well as a notation for probabilistic polynomialtime functions. The language is derived from Hofmann’s adaptation of Bellantoni-Cook safe recursion, extended to oracle computation via work der...

Existing model-free tests of the conditional coordinate hypothesis in sufficient dimension reduction (Cook (1998) [3]) focused mainly on the first-order estimation methods such as the sliced inverse regression estimation (Li (1991) [14]). Such testing procedures based on quadratic inference functions are difficult to be extended to second-order sufficient dimension reduction methods such as the...