Determining the effects of unpredictable disturbances on dynamic ecological systems is challenged by the paucity of appropriate temporal and spatial coverage of data. On 27 February 2010, an 8.8 Mw mega-earthquake and tsunami struck central Chile and caused coastal land-level changes, massive damage to coastal infrastructure, and widespread mortality of coastal organisms. Wave-exposed sandy bea...

Sand is one the most complex materials found in nature. Undeniably the correct modelling of its appearance attributes (such as hue, lightness, and glossiness) is essential to the realistic image synthesis of a wide range of outdoor scenes. Despite this central role, to date, few simulation efforts have been specifically directed to this ubiquitous material. In this paper, we present a modular f...

On Intel Sandy Bridge processor, last level cache (LLC) is divided into cache slices and all physical addresses are distributed across the cache slices using an hash function. With this undocumented hash function existing, it is impossible to implement cache partition based on page coloring. This article cracks the hash functions on two types of Intel Sandy processors by converting the problem ...

A summary of the information available on the incidence of toxic quantities of exchangeable aluminium in sandy soils is presented. Attention is focused on the widespread nature of this condition.

Parts of the sandy littoral sediment of a Precambrian shield lake (Lake 302s) were intermittently covered with a layer of flocculent organic-rich material l-20 mm thick. Sandy sediments with flocculent surface sediment had higher rates of respiration (31-105%) and photosynthesis (37224%) than those without. Densities of invertebrate macrofauna were 10 times higher in the flocculent surface sedi...

BACKGROUND Urine microscopy is the standard diagnostic method for urogenital S. haematobium infection. However, this may lead to under-diagnosis of urogenital schistosomiasis, as the disease may present itself with genital symptoms in the absence of ova in the urine. Currently there is no single reliable and affordable diagnostic method to diagnose the full spectrum of urogenital S. haematobium...

Australia's Great Sandy Region is of international significance containing two World Heritage areas and patches of rainforest growing on white sand. Previous broad-scale analysis found the Great Sandy biogeographic subregion contained a significantly more phylogenetically even subset of species than expected by chance contrasting with rainforest on white sand in Peru. This study aimed to test t...