In a multi-board computer system, the volume allocated for heat removal is often a significant fraction of the total system volume. Cooling requirements can thus impact performance, reliability, cost, acoustic noise, and floorspace. This work addresses the volume costs or space requirements for removing heat with optimally designed finned heat sinks. Simple formulas applicable to both gas and l...

Theoretical and empirical studies have shown that enemy-victim interactions in spatially homogenous environments can exhibit diverging oscillations which result in the extinction of one or both species. For enemy-victim models with overlapping generations, we investigate the dynamical implications of spatial heterogeneity created by enemy-free sinks or victimless sinks. An enemy-free sink is a ...

Mobile sinks (MS) mounted upon urban vehicles with fixed trajectories (e.g. buses) provide the ideal infrastructure to effectively retrieve sensory data from isolated Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) fields. Existing approaches involve either single-hop transfer of data from sensors that lie within the MS’s range or heavy involvement of network periphery nodes in data retrieval, processing, buffer...

Carbonyl sulfide (COS) and dimethyl sulfide (DMS) fluxes from an urban Cynodon dactylon lawn and adjacent bare soil were measured during April-July 2005 in Guangzhou, China. Both the lawn and bare soil acted as sinks for COS and sources for DMS. The mean fluxes of COS and DMS in the lawn (-19.27 and 18.16 pmol/(m2 sec), respectively) were significantly higher than those in the bare soil (-9.89 ...

Depressions in landscapes function as buffers for water and sediment. A landscape with depressions has less runoff, less erosion and more sedimentation than a landscape without depressions. Sinks in digital elevation models (DEMs) can be existing features that correctly represent depressions in actual landscapes or spurious features that result from errors in DEM creation. In many erosion, land...

Today’s mobile phones are equipped with an increasing set of sensors including GPS, accelerometers, cameras, and more that makes them ideal source nodes in urban sensing applications. The growing displays and internet connectivity also makes these phones excellent sinks of just-in-time information, including information from other sensors deployed in the infrastructure. Exploiting these feature...

Seagrasses are amongst the most valuable ecosystems on shallow subtidal soft bottoms worldwide (COSTANZA et al., 1997; TUYA et al., 2014). They are considered as ecological engineers (WRIGHT & JONES, 2006), providing food, shelters and nursery areas for a variety of fish and invertebrates (HEMMINGA & DUARTE, 2000; COMO et al., 2008; ESPINO et al., 2015). Moreover, seagrass beds stabilize sedime...

By performing a systematic study of the Hénon map, we find low-period sinks for parameter values extremely close to the classical ones. This raises the question whether or not the well-known Hénon attractor-the attractor of the Hénon map existing for the classical parameter values-is a strange attractor, or simply a stable periodic orbit. Using results from our study, we conclude that even if t...

Urban runoff quality is recognized as one of the most significant pressures on aquatic ecosystems worldwide. Research into pollutants in urban runoff has traditionally focused on nutrients, suspended solids and metals and consequently knowledge of anthropogenic organic pollutants is limited. The aim of this research was to investigate the occurrence and identify the sources of certain selected ...

Current source density (CSD) analysis assesses spatiotemporal synaptic activations at somatic and/or dendritic levels in the form of depolarizing current sinks. Whereas many studies have focused on the short (<50 ms) latency sinks, associated with thalamocortical projections, sinks with longer latencies have received less attention. Here, we analyzed laminar CSD patterns for the first 600 ms af...