Information on the amount, distribution, and characteristics of coarse woody debris (CWD) in forest ecosystems is in high demand by wildlife biologists, fire specialists, and ecologists. In its important role in wildlife habitat, fuel loading, forest productivity, and carbon sequestration, CWD is an indicator of forest health. Because of this, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research ...

The Cover Feature represents a 3-D plot of the loading status battery particle material as function two galvanostatic dimensionless parameters l and Ξ that depend on physical properties (particle size d, diffusion coefficient D, intercalation rate constant k0) Cr. More information can be found in Research Article by Ezequiel P. M. Leiva co-workers.

Porous layer open tubular (PLOT) columns are traditionally built with particles that adhered to the tubing walls. These have unique selectivity and provide a great alternative when gaseous samples need be separated, but these also been used separate higher boiling point analytes. There many different commercially available stationary phases of PLOT columns, including alumina-based molecular sie...

Using atomic force microscopy (AFM) we performed dynamic force measurements of the adhesive forces in two model systems: avidin-biotin and streptavidin-biotin. In our experiments we used glutaraldehyde for immobilization of (strept)avidin on the tip and biotin on the sample surface. Such interface layers are more rigid than those usually reported in the literature for AFM studies, when (strept)...

Feature selection has received considerable attention in various areas as a way to select informative features and to simplify the statistical model through dimensional reduction. One of the most widely used methods for dimensional reduction includes principal component analysis (PCA). Despite its popularity, PCA suffers from a lack of interpretability of the original feature because the reduce...

This paper presents a recurrence network approach for the analysis of skin blood flow dynamics in response to loading pressure. Recurrence is a fundamental property of many dynamical systems, which can be explored in phase spaces constructed from observational time series. A visualization tool of recurrence analysis called recurrence plot (RP) has been proved to be highly effective to detect tr...

Fractional factorial split-plot designs are widely used when it is impractical to perform fractional experiments in a completely random order. When there too many subplots per whole plot, or few plots, with replicated settings of the plot factors preferred. However, such an important study undeveloped literature. This paper considers WP from viewpoint clear effects. We investigate sufficient an...

In some experiments, the levels of factors are difficult to change; then fractional factorial split-plot (FFSP) designs suitable for selection. an FFSP design, divided into two classes—the whole plot (WP) and subplot (SP) factors. selection WP can affect that SP factors, which attracts much attention Paying more a new optimality criterion selecting such is proposed. The robustness proposed meth...