The conservation of seabirds requires maintenance and enhancement of their populations by reducing losses at sea and on breeding colonies. The two major methods of achieving this conservation goal use fundamentally different means. Limiting seabird mortality at sea, principally from oil spills or fishery bycatch, requires political and legal skills in dealing with industry, changing fishing tec...

In 1980 the State of Connecticut began a tidal marsh restoration program targeting systems degraded by tidal restrictions and impoundments. Such marshes become dominated by common reed grass ( Phragmites australis ) and cattail ( Typha angustifolia and T. latifolia ), with little ecological connection to Long Island Sound. The management and scientific hypothesis was that returning tidal action...

the goal of this study was to survey the natural vegetation on waste landfills and suggest arestoration plan. in the study, i identified 63 families, 275 species, and 34 varieties of aboveground vascular flora. robinia pseudo-acacia was the dominant tree, with a basal area density of 1.51¡3/ha, followed in decreasing order by salix koreensis and populus sieboldii. twinspan resulted in the class...

Problem statement: During service restoration, the power level at buses can significantly differ from the one presented under steady-state conditions, demanding an amount of electric power significantly higher than the normal load. Hence, their post-outage behavior must be adequately forecasted in order to permit the development of reliable restoration plans, or to avoid inadequate actions that...

Author(s): Warneke, Alexandria; Lombardo, Keith; Ready, Michael | Abstract: This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" describes the restoration of oak and pine forests on an island Channel Islands National Park, California.

Most of the customer outages are the results of some problems related to distribution systems. Prolonged outages may cause cold load pickup problems because of the increased penetration of thermostaticallycontrolled devices and the loss of diversity among these devices. Since loads higher than normal may be expected after prolonged outages, restoration problems may occur when there is not enoug...

Integrating wind power generation into small islands has been one of the demonstration projects in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Since such integration could deteriorate power quality, including frequency, in an island grid, a frequency-stabilizing system using flywheels has been integrated into a small island. In order to establish a proper frequency-stabilizing scheme for a small island, an accu...

Little information is available on the stress analysis of cast metallic inlays and onlays. Modern design and valuation in order to obtain an adequate framework strength involves numerical simulations. The aim of the paper was to evaluate, the effect of MOD cavity design for cast metal inlays and onlays on stress distribution in teeth structures and restorations. The study was performed on an up...

Absfmct-In this paper, a class of iterative signal restoration algorithms i s derived based on a representation theorem for the generalized inverse of a matrix. These algorithms exhibit a first or higher order of convergence, and some of them consist of an on-line and an offline computational part. The conditions for convergence, the rate of convergence of these algorithms, and the computationa...