2 Executive Summary Tropical forest systems occupy 2% of the earth's land surface but host nearly 50% of the world's forests and support unique flora and fauna and ecological processes. They also provide a multitude of ecosystem services ranging from the provision of food and water to supporting livelihoods and climate change mitigation. However, tropical forests are under immense anthropogenic...

A low-cost data logging platform is presented that provides long-term operation in remote or submerged environments. Three premade "breakout boards" from the open-source Arduino ecosystem are assembled into the core of the data logger. Power optimization techniques are presented which extend the operational life of this module-based design to >1 year on three alkaline AA batteries. Robust under...

The experimental design and instrumentation for an integrated shallow-water surface gravity wave experiment is discussed. The experiment required the measurement of the water surface elevation, meteorological parameters, and directional spectra at a number of locations on a shallow lake. In addition, to acquire data under a wide range of conditions, an experimental period of three years was req...

A new type of logs, the command log, is being employed to replace the traditional data log (e.g., ARIES log) in the inmemory databases. Instead of recording how the tuples are updated, a command log only tracks the transactions being executed, thereby effectively reducing the size of the log and improving the performance. Command logging on the other hand increases the cost of recovery, because...

Sixty-four different logging scenarios for an initially undisturbed forest stand at Deramakot (Malaysia) were simulated with rain forest growth model FORMIND. The scenarios differ regarding the logging cycle, logging method, cutting limit and logging intensities. We characterise the impacts with four criteria describing the yield, canopy opening and changes in species composition. Multicriteria...

sustainable forest management in caspian forests of iran requires cost-benefit analysis in order to maintain the quality of timber stands during logging operations. this study was done with the aim of cost and gross revenue computations from current logging (net present value) in three adjacent compartments in district 2 of shafroud watershed. motion and time studies were carried out during fel...

Third, error logging and reporting is important. As an industry, we currently support very primitive logging with no mechanisms for root-cause analysis or correlation of failures. Error messages are often arcane or not useful, and “firstfailure” capture is impossible. This is evidenced by a common, though unrealistic, request from support center staff: “Turn logging on and recreate the failure....

The analysis of IRS 1A satellite imagery has indicated the existence of two NE SW trending sub parallel faults along which the coast is undergoing land subsidence as revealed by the concavity in the shore line, preferential migration of the river systems and the drainage congestion, absence of beach ridges, occurrence of off shore shoal etc. The study has further indicated chains of tectonicall...