Abstract Food availability is a key determinant of the nursery value given habitat for larval and juvenile fishes. Growth, survival, recruitment success are often inter-correlated influenced by prey associated feeding success. This likely true threatened population Longfin Smelt ( Spirinchus thaleichthys ) in San Francisco Estuary (SFE) which has collapsed recent decades along with its preferre...

Many sites are contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs). In some cases, these PHCs may be biorecalcitrant and therefore the soils contaminated with these PHCs are not amenable to remediation by biological treatment methods. Examples of sites containing biorecalcitrant PHCs are old flare pit sites. Flare pits are earthen pits that were once used for the storage and disposal of natural gas...

Low-complexity blind turbo receivers composed of a soft-feedback equaliser (SFE) and fast least-squares (FLS) channel estimators are proposed. To reduce the complexity of the SFE computation, a function approximation is proposed instead of numerical algorithms in a specific step of the equaliser’s computation. Concerning FLS channel estimators, a specific filter parameters initialisation proced...

This study investigated and validated the optimum conditions for a supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) method using bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl)monothiophosphinic acid as a chelating ligand, for subsequent ICP-MS analyses of mercury, cadmium and lead in sediment. Several combinations of pressure, temperature and modifier (P-T-M) conditions for SFE were tested and an appropriate collection solven...

In a real-time electric power auction, the bids of producers consist of committed supply as a function of price. The bids are submitted under uncertainty, before the demand by the Independent System Operator has been realized. In the Supply Function Equilibrium (SFE), every producer chooses the supply function maximizing his expected profit given his residual demand. I consider a uniform-price ...

Numerous semi-supervised learning methods have been proposed to augment Multinomial Naive Bayes (MNB) using unlabeled documents, but their use in practice is often limited due to implementation difficulty, inconsistent prediction performance, or high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a new, very simple semi-supervised extension of MNB, called Semi-supervised Frequency Estimate (SFE)...

The chemical composition of laurel leaves and fruits essential oils (content of 0.917 and 0.747%, respectively) and laurel leaves extracts obtained at different pressures/temperatures by supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) were studied by GC-MS. The predominant compound in the essential oils and in CO2 extracts obtained at pressures/temperatures of 100 bar/40°C and 250 bar/40°C was 1,8-cineole...

Star formation and quenching are two of the most important processes in galaxy evolution. We explore local Universe interrelationships among key integrated properties, including stellar mass $M_*$, star rate (SFR), specific SFR (sSFR), molecular gas $M_{\rm H_2}$, efficiency (SFE) to ratio $\mu$. aim identify fundamental scaling relations these properties their interrelationships. show H_2}$-SF...

Stacking Fault Energy (SFE) is an intrinsic alloy property that governs much of the plastic deformation mechanisms observed in fcc alloys. While SFE has been recognized for many years as a key mechanical property, its inference via experimental observations or prediction using, example, computationally intensive first-principles methods challenging. This difficulty precludes explicit use design...

We introduce Free Hash, a new approach to generating Garbled Circuit (GC) hash at no extra cost during GC generation. This is in contrast with state-of-the-art approaches, which hash GCs at computational cost of up to 6× of GC generation. GC hashing is at the core of the cut-and-choose technique of GC-based secure function evaluation (SFE). Our main idea is to intertwine hash generation/verific...