In most regions of the world removal of environmental stress facilitates regeneration of native plants and habitats. However, in many of New Zealand’s modified landscapes, exotic species are likely to respond first to any reduction in stress because these fast-growing species are prevalent in local vegetation and dominate seed banks. Given the trend in agriculture towards intensive management o...

The discovery, representation and reconstruction of (technical) integration networks from Network Mining (NM) raw data is a difficult problem for enterprises. This is due to large and complex IT landscapes within and across enterprise boundaries, heterogeneous technology stacks, and fragmented data. To remain competitive, visibility into the enterprise and partner IT networks on different, inte...

We study a new class of visibility problems based on the notion of α-visibility. Given an angle α and a collection of line segments S in the plane, a segment t is said to be α-visible from a point p, if there exists an empty triangle with one vertex at p and the side opposite to p on t such that the angle at p is α. In this model of visibility, we study the classical variants of point visibilit...

Rendering large scenes with many complex objects places prohibitive requirements on modern graphics hardware. For example, while methods for rendering near photo-realistic vegetation scenes have been described in the literature, they require minutes of computation. In this paper we present scene and LOD management techniques for achieving interactive frame rates for a forest walk-through. The p...

Maintainability of long-lived enterprise solutions is today’s top challenge. The constantly increasing functionalities of information technology provided these days, including hardware and software products, leads to giant networked application infrastructures. Business processes glue applications and data sources to enterprise solutions to fulfill business needs. Large firms are more and more ...

The Southwest has beautiful desert landscapes, forested mountains, and a rapidly growing population. People expect clean air and unrestricted vistas. They complain when their visibility is reduced. Visibility reduction is caused by pollution transported into the region from the large urban complex of Los Angeles as well as from the growing metropolitan area within the region. People are general...

1. Soil Formation is a Global Natural Process 2. Factors of Soil Formation 3. Stages of Soil Formation 4. Processes of Soil Formation 5. Genesis of Soils under Different Ecologic Conditions 5.1. Genesis of Soils under Conditions of Cryogenesis 5.2. Genesis of Soils of Forest Landscapes in a Zone of Moderate Climate 5.3. Genesis of Soils in Landscapes of Steppes and Prairies 5.4. Genesis of Soil...