Antarctica is the world's largest fresh-water reservoir, with the potential to raise sea levels by about 60 m. An ice sheet contributes to sea-level rise (SLR) when its rate of ice discharge and/or surface melting exceeds accumulation through snowfall. Constraining the contribution of the ice sheets to present-day SLR is vital both for coastal development and planning, and climate projections. ...

This contribution reassesses progress in the development of satellite laser ranging (SLR) technology and its scientific and societal applications in South Africa. We first highlight the current global SLR tracking stations within the framework of the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) and the artificial satellites currently being tracked by these stations. In particular, the present wor...

Coastal regions are highly vulnerable to sea-level rise (SLR) therefore developing and implementing effective adaptation alternatives is crucial for their future development. However, there is uncertainty in the timing, duration, spatial location and extent of SLR and storms. The complexity that arises from climate, coastal systems and their interactions in space and time can easily become over...

We present a new method – Speculative Lock Reordering (SLR) – that enables multiple threads to concurrently and speculatively execute within a critical section. Its novel feature is to exploit that there is no a priori execution order between separate invocations of a critical section that speculatively executed threads must respect. In contrast to previously proposed speculative synchronizatio...

This paper analyses literature contributions in the search for safety stock problem under uncertainties and risks procurement process, focusing on dimensioning (determination of level). We perform a systematic review (SLR) from 1995 to 2019 relevant journals, covering 193 selected articles. These articles were classified into three main issues: dimensioning, management, positioning, allocation ...

and the assumptions are that the e, are independently normally distribtited with mean zero and (common) variance a^, e,~NID (0,(7̂ ). Focusing first on the structure of the model itself (Fig. 1), to test H:)8=0, is to test no change versus linear change and thus, according to the model, to reject H is to conclude that linear change has occurred, i.e., progressive change at a constant rate. To th...