(iii) they have one or more designed functions. This definition can also be applied to living creatures. First-generation NWRs would have the first characteristic of artifacts. However, they would not share the second and third characteristics, as they would be indistinguishable from their ...
S. Hart, Effect of bio-inspired sinusoidal leading-edges on wings, Aerospace Science and Technology, 81 (2018) 128–140. Article Google Scholar Y. Zhang, H. Cao and M. Zhang, Investigation of leading-edge protuberances for the performance improvement of thick wind turbine airfoil, Journal ...
edge effect; distance sampling; tree diversity; vegetation; Tsitongambarika; edge response; species vulnerability; edge tolerance; habitat loss; fragmentation 1. Introduction An edge is defined as the boundary of two adjacent habitat types and the resulting interactions between them [1,2,3]. Edges...
“Typically we find that we're pushing the envelope, we're ahead of the curve,” said Diversa's Biodiversity Manager. “There are environmental organizations against patenting of life forms—others are just totally against genetic research.” The CEO of TGN seemed to agree when he said that ...
This formed, in effect, the first proposal for “edge” computing based on the deployment of “micro data centres” (mDCs) as advanced by Microsoft, Inc., which can be seen as a highly distributed cloud focused on mobile users and connected devices and requiring the installation of a ...
by 23.3% and reduces demand violations by 18.8%. Notably, lower capacity necessitates more vehicles, significantly elevating costs. These results suggest that higher vehicle capacity reduces total costs but increases the number of demand violations, while lower vehicle capacity has the opposite effect....
4a, b). To explore the effect of outlying values on the estimate of forest interior sink we computed the spectrum of values derived from omitting individual plots and sites one-by-one: no omission altered the significance of our result (Supplementary Fig. 1). AGB gains in forest interior ...
The same definition is adopted by the National Climate Center in China (NCC). In order to verify the westward extension index calculated based on the JRA-55 reanalysis data, the westward extension index time series released by the NCC is used for comparison (Liu et al. [35]). It is ...
The key is to construct a building in which a fire would take effect slowly, allowing the occupants plenty of time to escape, and emergency responders time to arrive on the scene. This is also why materials themselves are rated in respect to how long it would take fire to affect their ...
This effect arises in condensed matter, due to the interaction of the ejected photoelectron with its neighborhood, and as a consequence the fine structure of the X-ray absorption spectrum includes electronic and structural information. The development of the XAFS technique effectively took place in ...