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A global protocol for monitoring of coral bleaching
Coral bleaching and subsequent mortality represent a major threat to the future health and productivity of coral reefs. However a lack of reliable data on occurrence, severity and other characteristics of bleaching events hampers research on the causes and consequences of this important phenomenon. This article describes a global protocol for monitoring coral bleaching events, which addresses this problem and can be used by people with different levels of expertise and resources
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Primal-dual variable neighborhood search for the simple plant-location problem
Copyright @ 2007 INFORMSThe variable neighborhood search metaheuristic is applied to the primal simple plant-location problem and to a reduced dual obtained by exploiting the complementary slackness conditions. This leads to (i) heuristic resolution of (metric) instances with uniform fixed costs, up to n = 15,000 users, and m = n potential locations for facilities with an error not exceeding 0.04%; (ii) exact solution of such instances with up to m = n = 7,000; and (iii) exact solutions of instances with variable fixed costs and up to m = n = 15, 000.This work is supported by NSERC Grant 105574-02; NSERC Grant OGP205041; and partly by the Serbian Ministry of Science, Project 1583
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Improvements and comparison of heuristics for solving the uncapacitated multisource Weber problem
Copyright @ 2000 INFORMSThe multisource Weber problem is to locate simultaneously m facilities in the Euclidean plane to minimize the total transportation cost for satisfying the demand of n fixed users, each supplied from its closest facility. Many heuristics have been proposed for this problem, as well as a few exact algorithms. Heuristics are needed to solve quickly large problems and to provide good initial solutions for exact algorithms. We compare various heuristics, i.e., alternative location-allocation (Cooper 1964), projection (Bongartz et al. 1994), Tabu search (Brimberg and Mladenovic 1996a), p-Median plus Weber (Hansen ct al. 1996), Genetic search and several versions of Variable Neighbourhood search. Based on empirical tests that are reported, it is found that most traditional and some recent heuristics give poor results when the number of facilities to locate is large and that Variable Neighbourhood search gives consistently best results, on average, in moderate computing time.This study was supported by the Department
of National Defence (Canada) Academic Research; Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-92-J-1194, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Grant GPO 105574 and Fonds pour la Formation des Chercheurs et l’Aide a la Recherche Grant 32EQ 1048; and by an International Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
of Canada, Grant OGPOO 39682
Structure, phase behavior and inhomogeneous fluid properties of binary dendrimer mixtures
The effective pair potentials between different kinds of dendrimers in
solution can be well approximated by appropriate Gaussian functions. We find
that in binary dendrimer mixtures the range and strength of the effective
interactions depend strongly upon the specific dendrimer architecture. We
consider two different types of dendrimer mixtures, employing the Gaussian
effective pair potentials, to determine the bulk fluid structure and phase
behavior. Using a simple mean field density functional theory (DFT) we find
good agreement between theory and simulation results for the bulk fluid
structure. Depending on the mixture, we find bulk fluid-fluid phase separation
(macro-phase separation) or micro-phase separation, i.e., a transition to a
state characterized by undamped periodic concentration fluctuations. We also
determine the inhomogeneous fluid structure for confinement in spherical
cavities. Again, we find good agreement between the DFT and simulation results.
For the dendrimer mixture exhibiting micro-phase separation, we observe rather
striking pattern formation under confinement.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figure
Dynamic glass transition: bridging the gap between mode-coupling theory and the replica approach
We clarify the relation between the ergodicity breaking transition predicted
by mode-coupling theory and the so-called dynamic transition predicted by the
static replica approach. Following Franz and Parisi [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 2486
(1997)], we consider a system of particles in a metastable state characterized
by non-trivial correlations with a quenched configuration. We show that the
assumption that in a metastable state particle currents vanish leads to an
expression for the replica off-diagonal direct correlation function in terms of
a replica off-diagonal static four-point correlation function. A factorization
approximation for this function results in an approximate closure for the
replica off-diagonal direct correlation function. The replica off-diagonal
Ornstein-Zernicke equation combined with this closure coincides with the
equation for the non-ergodicity parameter derived using the mode-coupling
theory.Comment: revised version; to be published in EP
A global protocol for monitoring of coral bleaching
Coral bleaching and subsequent mortality represent a major threat to the future health and productivity of coral reefs. However a lack of reliable data on occurrence, severity and other characteristics of bleaching events hampers research on the causes and consequences of this important phenomenon. This article describes a global protocol for monitoring coral bleaching events, which addresses this problem and can be used by people with different levels of expertise and resources.Coral reefs, Bleaching, Mortality, Monitoring
Charcoal From Your Woodlot?
Use of charcoal for outdoor cooking has increased rapidly in the Midwest since World War II. Iowans used about 1 1/2 million pounds in 1955. And the increase is estimated at more than 30 percent per year
Mobile particles in an immobile environment: Molecular Dynamics simulation of a binary Yukawa mixture
Molecular dynamics computer simulations are used to investigate thedynamics
of a binary mixture of charged (Yukawa) particles with a size-ratio of 1:5. We
find that the system undergoes a phase transition where the large particles
crystallize while the small particles remain in a fluid-like (delocalized)
phase. Upon decreasing temperature below the transition, the small particles
become increasingly localized on intermediate time scales. This is reflected in
the incoherent intermediate scattering functions by the appearance of a plateau
with a growing height. At long times, the small particles show a diffusive
hopping motion. We find that these transport properties are related to
structural correlations and the single-particle potential energy distribution
of the small particles.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
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