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1 Real-Time Detection of Abandoned and Removed Objects in Complex Environments
 

Summary:  is that the edge energy of the current frame is higher for abandoned objects and lower for removed objects... be classified as abandoned object if the background image contains less edges than the current frame (along... that of the current frame. As a result, the static region type is ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
2 Step 1: Identify "Established" Blogs Many blogs showed very few posts, or a very short lifespan
 

Summary:  will be less than 3 standard deviations above the mean - We call a blog "abandoned" if the last post was more... than three standard deviations beyond that blogger's average delay. ·: Posts; O,O: Idiographic "guesses... Abandonment · Blogging is popular: BuzzMetrics estimates over 38m blogs. · However, ...

  

Source: Pregibon, Daryl - Google Labs

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
3 Carbon sequestration and biodiversity of re-growing miombo woodlands in Mozambique
 

Summary:  and biodiversity responded once agriculture was abandoned. We sampled twenty-eight 0.125 ha plots that had... and on abandoned farmland 20­30 years old. Soil C stocks in the top 0.3 m on abandoned land had a narrower range... in older abandonments and miombo woodlands. Wood C stocks on ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
4 CONTROLLED DOCUMENT Users are responsible for ensuring they work to the latest approved revision.
 

Summary:  .03) Revision: 0.0 Effective D2/9/07 Environment & Remediation Support Services Standard Operating Procedure... for MONITORING WELL AND BOREHOLE ABANDONMENT APPROVAL SIGNATURES: Subject Matter Expert: Organization Signature... Date Dwain Farley ERSS Signature on File 12/5/06 #12;Title: Monitoring Well and Borehole Abandonment ...

  

Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
5 Jaroslav Vojta: Imprints of history in post-agricultural forests Review of Ph.D. thesis
 

Summary:  in abandoned landscape. It consists of preface and three distinct papers published in international scientific... of abandonment). Observed vegetation represents a dynamic system, which may be influenced by a group of local... standard instrumental error is not usually less than 0.1-0.2 pH. Interpretation of Fig. 2 would be ...

  

Source: Vojta, Jaroslav - Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
6 LA-UR-09-5373 September 2009
 

Summary:  #12;#12;LA-UR-09-5373 September 2009 EP2009-0457 Plugging and Abandonment Summary Report for Test... that this notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. #12;#12;#12;Plugging and Abandonment... the methods used by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL or the Laboratory) to plug and abandon Test Well 8

  

Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
7 Queueing Systems 36 (2000) 141173 141 A model for rational abandonments from invisible queues
 

Summary:  Queueing Systems 36 (2000) 141­173 141 A model for rational abandonments from invisible queues... @ee.technion.ac.il Received 3 August 1999; revised 1 December 1999 We propose a model for abandonments from a queue, due... it is shown that a unique equilibrium exists, in which rational abandonments can occur only upon arrival ...

  

Source: Shimkin, Nahum - Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

 

Collection: Engineering

 
8 Good Abandonment in Mobile and PC Internet Search Jane Li, Scott B. Huffman, and Akihito Tokuda
 

Summary:  that are potentially good abandonments, but are not fully answered by the current search results page, we can get... Good Abandonment in Mobile and PC Internet Search Jane Li, Scott B. Huffman, and Akihito Tokuda... Google Inc. janeli,huffman,akihito@google.com ABSTRACT Query abandonment by search engine ...

  

Source: Pregibon, Daryl - Google Labs

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
9 Biogeochemistry and vegetation in a cranberry bog chronosequence Genevieve Noyce
 

Summary:  abandonment, I instead used a chronosequence, looking at current bogs, old abandoned bogs, and some in between... were in East Wareham, MA and are currently owned and operated by A.D. Makepeace. The abandoned bogs... , and trees for the 14 surveyed abandoned bogs, ...

  

Source: Vallino, Joseph J. - Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
10 MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Vol. 55, No. 10, October 2009, pp. 17291742
 

Summary:  Multiserver Queues with Abandonments Rouba Ibrahim, Ward Whitt Department of Industrial Engineering... -time delay estimators in the overloaded GI/GI/s +GI multiserver queueing model, allowing customer abandonment... - imations for performance measures with a nonexponential abandonment-time distribution to obtain new delay

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
11 MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Vol. 55, No. 10, October 2009, pp. 17291742
 

Summary:  is the current queue length, and h is the abandonment-time hazard-rate function, defined as h t f t /F c... Multiserver Queues with Abandonments Rouba Ibrahim, Ward Whitt Department of Industrial Engineering... -time delay estimators in the overloaded GI/GI/s +GI multiserver queueing model, allowing customer ...

  

Source: Ibrahim, Rouba - Département d'Informatique et Recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Engineering

 
12 Submitted to Operations Research manuscript (Please, provide the mansucript number!)
 

Summary:  Customer Abandonment in Many-Server Queues with Time-Varying Arrivals Yunan Liu, Ward Whitt Department... abandonment probabilities and expected delays in the Mt/GI/st + GI many-server queueing model, which has a non... abandonment according to a general patience distribution (the +GI). In particular, we propose new offered

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
13 Upland land-use and the effects on upper trophic level dynamics and
 

Summary:  collected in forested rivers, restored cranberry bogs, active cranberry bogs and abandoned bogs... , and Fourspine sticklebacks in the active as well as the abandoned bog. Macroinvertebrate samples showed higher... biodiversity in the forested river as hypothesized. The lowest was seen in the abandoned bogs. These results

  

Source: Vallino, Joseph J. - Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
14 Submitted to Operations Research manuscript (Please, provide the mansucript number!)
 

Summary:  Customer Abandonment in Many-Server Queues with Time-Varying Arrivals Yunan Liu, Ward Whitt Department... abandonment probabilities and expected delays in the Mt/GI/st + GI many-server queueing model, which has a non... abandonment according to a general patience distribution (the +GI). In particular, we propose new offered

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
15 Landscape and Urban Planning 79 (2007) 6576 Investigating the regional-scale pattern of agricultural land abandonment
 

Summary:  of agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss mountains: A spatial statistical modelling approach Mario Gellrich... , agricultural land abandonment and the related consequences for the environment are issues of increas- ing... regional-scale pattern of agricultural land abandonment, as indicated by forest re-growth, in the Swiss

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
16 Geomorphic and hydrological effects of traditional shifting agriculture in a Mediterranean mountain,
 

Summary:  rates ranged between 0.1 and 1.4 t yr-1. The abandonment of shifting practices resulted in rapid plant... active several decades after abandonment, explaining landscape degradation and the triggering of shallow... abandonment; Central Spanish Pyrenees. 1 Preprint of article published in Mountain Research and Development

  

Source: Portugués, Santiago Beguería - Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
17 [Major revisionposted 2/8/11] Operating Policy and Procedure
 

Summary:  a standard procedure for the handling, control, and disposal of abandoned personal property on the Texas Tech... [Major revision­posted 2/8/11] Operating Policy and Procedure OP 76.09: Abandoned Personal Property... again in 2015. POLICY/PROCEDURE 1. Section 51.213, "Abandoned Personal Property," of the ...

  

Source: Rock, Chris - Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
18 Author's personal copy ecological modelling 2 0 9 ( 2 0 0 7 ) 157168
 

Summary:  (without land-abandonment) within currently observed "forest" cells (map input). The spin- up serves... - sion only" approach (immediate and complete abandonment), most of the current grassland... Accepted 19 June 2007 Published on line 8 August 2007 Keywords: Agricultural ...

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
19 Is There a "Pompeii Premise" in Archaeology? Michael B. Schiffer
 

Summary:  -7710%28198521%2941%3A1%3C18%3AITA%22PI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6 Journal of Anthropological Research is currently published... inventory, often still usable, that are left behind on occupation surfaces when people abandon activity... , derived from the early New Archaeology, that the items (1) were laid down at room abandonment as (2

  

Source: Hardy, Christopher R. - Biology Department, Millersville University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
20 Rural Abandonment and Sustainable Development1
 

Summary:  Rural Abandonment and Sustainable Development1 Socio-economic forces and governmental policy have... encouraged the intensification of agriculture and have aggravated the trend toward abandonment of remote... of abandonment and intensification processes. The intensification of agriculture is associated with high

  

Source: Zaferatos, Nicholas C. - Department of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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21 Economic Impacts of Residential Property Abandonment
 

Summary:  units that are currently vacant or abandoned. Several GCLB property management programs are working... Economic Impacts of Residential Property Abandonment and the Genesee County Land Bank in Flint... intentionally. #12;Economic Impacts of Residential Property Abandonment and the Genesee County Land Bank

  

Source: Anisimov, Mikhail - Institute for Physical Science and Technology & Department of Chemical Engineering and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park

 

Collection: Physics ; Materials Science

 
22 Adaptive Behavior of Impatient Customers in Tele-Queues: Theory and Empirical Support 1
 

Summary:  the modeling and analysis of abandonments from a queue that is invisi- ble to its occupants. Such queues arise... -queues. A basic premise of this paper is that customers adapt their patience (modeled by an abandonment... of abandonments. Key words: Exponential Queues; Abandonment; Invisible Queues; ...

  

Source: Shimkin, Nahum - Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

 

Collection: Engineering

 
23 Interim Measures Work Plan for Well MCOBT-4.4 LA-UR-09-3511 1 June 2009
 

Summary:  plugging and abandonment activities will be managed in accordance with applicable standard operating... Measures Work Plan for the Plugging and Abandonment of Intermediate Groundwater Well MCOBT-4.4 Primary... ) proposes to use to plug and abandon groundwater monitoring well MCOBT-4.4. This work plan is being ...

  

Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
24 Work Plan to Plug and Abandon Wells 03-B-09 and 03-B-10 LA-UR-09-3324 1 July 2009
 

Summary:  #12;#12;Work Plan to Plug and Abandon Wells 03-B-09 and 03-B-10 LA-UR-09-3324 1 July 2009 EP2009... -0301 Work Plan to Plug and Abandon Wells 03-B-09 and 03-B-10 Primary Purpose This work plan summarizes... the methods Los Alamos National Laboratory (the Laboratory) proposes to use to plug and abandon groundwater

  

Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
25 OUTLINE OF A MODEL FOR LEXICAL DATABASES* NANCY IDE 1, JACQUES LE MAITRE 2, JEAN VRONIS 1,2
 

Summary:  codes, definitions, examples, etc. Fig. 4 gives the definition of "abandon" from the LDOCE; Fig. 5... , expanded from Nakamura and Nagao (1988), shows the tabular representation of the same entry.2 abandon1... /@'bænd@n/ v [T1] 1 to leave completely and for ever; desert: The sailors abandoned the burning ship. 2

  

Source: Ide, Nancy - Department of Computer Science, Vassar College

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
26 SPIE DL home | Scitation home | Search SPIE DL | Search SPIN | help | contact | sign in | sign out My SPIE Subscription | My E-mail Alerts | My Article Collections
 

Summary:  BROWSE OE Current Issue Current Volume All Volumes GENERAL INFORMATION About the Journal Citation Format... -Dong, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, 120- 749 South Korea We present an abandoned luggage detection architecture... that consists of an intelligent surveillance system for public places. Detection of abandoned ...

  

Source: Byun, HyeRan - Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
27 Submitted to Operations Research manuscript OPRE-2009-06-259
 

Summary:  Submitted to Operations Research manuscript OPRE-2009-06-259 Stabilizing Customer Abandonment... ), general service times (the first GI) and allows customer abandonment according to a general patience... -server queues; queues with time-varying arrivals; queues with abandonment; infinite-server queues, offered

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
28 Natural forest regrowth as a proxy variable for agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss mountains: a spatial
 

Summary:  landowners to maintain or abandon cultivation, however, is currently being investigated in selected case... Natural forest regrowth as a proxy variable for agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss... European mountain regions, natural forest regrowth on abandoned agricultural land and the related

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
29 MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 2002 INFORMS Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer 2002, pp. 208227
 

Summary:  of customers abandoning are fairly standard ACD data outputs, thus providing the means for estimating . We note... , namely, that impatient customers might decide to leave (abandon) before their service begins... . In this paper, we analyze the simplest abandonment model, in which customers' patience is ...

  

Source: Reiman, Marty - Fundamental Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences Research Center, Bell Laboratories

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
30 21.99.04.M0.01 Lost, Found, Stolen or Abandoned Property Page 1 of 2 STANDARD ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
 

Summary:  21.99.04.M0.01 Lost, Found, Stolen or Abandoned Property Page 1 of 2 STANDARD ADMINISTRATIVE... PROCEDURE 21.99.04.M0.01 Lost, Found, Stolen or Abandoned Property Approved September 23, 1997 Revised... August 24, 2010 Next scheduled review: August 24, 2013 Standard Administrative Procedure Statement Lost

  

Source: Texas A&M University, Spatial Sciences Laboratory

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
31 STAFFING A CALL CENTER WITH UNCERTAIN ARRIVAL RATE AND ABSENTEEISM
 

Summary:  , customer-abandonment and customer-waiting costs, but attention is also given to the standard deviation... is a multi-server queue with customer abandonment, allowing non-exponential service-time and time-to-abandon... abandonment, fluid models. Submitted: February 2005; Revision ...

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
32 Move-out Checklist Before a resident moves out of a unit, the Resident Assistant will perform a walk-through with the resident to assess the
 

Summary:  a walk-through with the resident to assess the current condition of the room. University Housing staff... areas. You may NOT abandon your furniture or other things in hallways, laundry rooms, lounges, lobbies... . The University reserves the right to assess charges to the community for abandoned items or damages to areas used

  

Source: Bertini, Robert L. - Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Portland State University; Portland State University, Center for Lakes and Reservoirs

 

Collection: Energy Storage, Conversion and Utilization ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
33 A FEATURE-BASED MODEL FOR LEXICAL DATABASES JEAN VRONIS, NANCY IDE
 

Summary:  to lexical data, and, as a result, current lexical databases exist in a wide variety of (often ad hoc... for abandon in Fig. 1 has two main sub-parts, one for its verb senses and one for its noun sense, and the two... ; Roth et al., 1988). Fig. 2 shows the LDOCE entry for abandon represented in a NF2 model. The outermost

  

Source: Ide, Nancy - Department of Computer Science, Vassar College

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
34 Submitted to Operations Research manuscript OPRE-2009-06-259
 

Summary:  Submitted to Operations Research manuscript OPRE-2009-06-259 Stabilizing Customer Abandonment... ), general service times (the first GI) and allows customer abandonment according to a general patience... -server queues; queues with time-varying arrivals; queues with abandonment; infinite-server queues, offered

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
35 Online Scheduling Policies for Multiclass Call Centers with Impatient Customers
 

Summary:  a target ratio constraint on the abandonment probabilities of premium customers to regular ones... , queueing systems, abandonments, online scheduling policies 1 Introduction A call center, or in general... that customers can abandon. It is natural 1 #12;in practice that a waiting customer is willing to wait for only

  

Source: Koole, Ger - Department of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

Collection: Mathematics ; Engineering

 
36 Fluid Modeling and Control for Server System Performance and Availability Luc Malrait
 

Summary:  -C industry- standard benchmark. Our experiments show that the pro- posed techniques improve performance by up... -C appli- cation, an industry-standard benchmark, running on the Post- greSQL database server. The results... , among the N clients that try to con- currently access a server, only Ne clients actually access

  

Source: Bouchenak, Sara - Department of Computer Science, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble-I

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
37 Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially explicit economic analysis
 

Summary:  Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially... mountains where agricultural land has been abandoned and overgrown by trees and bushes. Therefore... with immigration, higher proportions of part-time farms as opposed to full-time farms and high farm abandonment

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
38 BEAVERHABITATUSEANDIMPACTINTRUCKEERIVERBASIN, PAULBEIER,Departmentof ForestryandResourceManagement,Universityof California,Berkeley,CA94720
 

Summary:  August 1985 (Table 1). Presence of active beaver col- onies, sign of abandoned colonies, and current... explanatory power. Some abandoned colony sitesappearedto have been locatedon physicallyunsuitablehabitat... )usethemod- el resultsto suggestcausesfor colony abandon- ment, and evaluate whetherbeaver have ...

  

Source: Beier, Paul - School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
39 ENGINEERING SOLUTION OF A BASIC CALL-CENTER MODEL: SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
 

Summary:  to rapidly compute approximations for all the standard steady- state performance measures in the basic call... distribution, s servers, r extra waiting spaces and IID customer abandonment times with a general distribution... . Empirical studies indicate that the service-time and abandon-time distributions often are not nearly

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
40 Staffing a Call Center with Uncertain Arrival Rate and Absenteeism
 

Summary:  with customer abandonment, allowing non-exponential service-time and time-to-abandon distributions. The goal... is to maximize the expected net return, given throughput benefit and server, customer-abandonment and customer... -waiting costs, but attention is also given to the standard deviation of the return. ...

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics


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41 Eastern Virginia Medical School Current Website Usability Testing Report
 

Summary:  Eastern Virginia Medical School Current Website Usability Testing Report Executive Summary... Factory recommended that the new site be informed by lessons learned and data collection from the current site... Findings Qualitative Internal users frequently abandoned tasks and said they would "just call someone

  

Source: Dobrian, Anca D. - Department of Physiological Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
42 MODELLING THE RATE OF SECONDARY SUCCESSION AFTER FARMLAND ABANDONMENT IN A
 

Summary:  1 MODELLING THE RATE OF SECONDARY SUCCESSION AFTER FARMLAND ABANDONMENT IN A MEDITERRANEAN MOUNTAIN... succession after farmland abandonment has become a common process in north Mediterranean countries... multivariate regression to model secondary succession after farmland abandonment in environments where abiotic

  

Source: Portugués, Santiago Beguería - Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
43 LA-UR-10-1752 EP2010-0180
 

Summary:  #12;#12;LA-UR-10-1752 April 2010 EP2010-0180 Summary Report for Plugging and Abandonment of Test... ;#12;#12;TW-1 and TW-1A Plugging and Abandonment Summary Report EP2010-0180 v April 2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY... This report describes the methods Los Alamos National Laboratory used to plug and abandon groundwater

  

Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
44 THE IMPACT OF DELAY ANNOUNCEMENTS IN MANY-SERVER QUEUES WITH ABANDONMENT
 

Summary:  THE IMPACT OF DELAY ANNOUNCEMENTS IN MANY-SERVER QUEUES WITH ABANDONMENT by Mor Armony Nahum... immediately without waiting) or abandon earlier, hopefully to retry later when the system is more lightly... expectations on the abandonment profile and resulting system equilibrium is studied in several papers, where

  

Source: Shimkin, Nahum - Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

 

Collection: Engineering

 
45 IEOR 4106: Introduction to Operations Research: Stochastic Models Professor Whitt, Spring 2011
 

Summary:  to analyze their current operation. The current A&W Barbershop has two barbers and two barber chairs, plus... . We also allow each waiting customer to abandon at a constant rate = 6 per hour. Equivalently... , the abandonment times for individual customers are independent exponential random variables with ...

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
46 Restoration of Abandoned ChannelsRestoration of Abandoned Channels Prepared for KICT, South Korea
 

Summary:  1 Restoration of Abandoned ChannelsRestoration of Abandoned Channels Prepared for KICT, South Korea... of WorkStatement of Work 1. Classification and analysis of abandoned channel restoration 2. Long... ;2 Abandoned Channel ProcessesAbandoned Channel Processes ­­ Natural cutoffsNatural ...

  

Source: Julien, Pierre Y. - Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
47 Vegetation dynamics on an abandoned vacuum-mined peatland: 5 years of Claude Lavoie*
 

Summary:  % of the surrounding area was either currently being mined or have been abandoned after two decades of mining. No drain... -1 Vegetation dynamics on an abandoned vacuum-mined peatland: 5 years of monitoring Claude Lavoie... vacuum-mined bog located in southern Quebec. We selected mined sites that have been ...

  

Source: Lavoie, Claude - Centre de recherche en aménagement et développement, Université Laval

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
48 University Consortium on Advancing the Beneficial Use of Ash
 

Summary:  Residues Ash properties depend on combustion process and MSW feedstock Millrath, NAWTEC 11, 6 #12;Current... /reuse standards #12;Selected Beneficial Uses of WTE Ash · Engineered aggregate · Cement blocks · Asphalt... · Remediation of abandoned mines or brownfields · Concrete Millrath, NAWTEC 11, 9 #12;Engineered Aggregate

  

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

 

Collection: Renewable Energy

 
49 Relative importance of historical and natural factors influencing vegetation of secondary forests in abandoned villages
 

Summary:  different vegetation grows on the sites of abandoned villages, which are currently covered mainly... in abandoned villages Relativní význam historických a pírodních faktor ovlivujících vegetaci sekundárních les... forests in abandoned villages. ­ Preslia 79: 229­244. The factors influencing plant ...

  

Source: Vojta, Jaroslav - Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
50 Prolog-D-Linda v2 : A New Embedding of Linda in SICStus Prolog Page 1 Prolog-D-Linda v2 : A New Embedding of
 

Summary:  request is abandoned. Currently the abandon request is an internal mechanism within the Prolog... flexible and unrestricted manipulation of tuples. A new mechanism, called an 'abandon request', has been... processor running all the application processes and the centralised tuple space, through to the ...

  

Source: Sutcliffe, Geoff - Department of Computer Science, University of Miami

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
51 A FEATURE-BASED MODEL FOR LEXICAL DATABASES JEAN VI~RONIS,NANCYIDE
 

Summary:  to lexical data, and, as a result, current lexical databases exist in a wide varicty of (often ad hoc... for abandon in Fig. 1 has two main sub-parts, one for its verb senses and one for its noun sense, and the two... and Bidoit, 1984; Roth et al., 1988). Fig. 2 shows the LDOCE entry for abandon represented in a NF2 model

  

Source: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Anthology

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
52 ARTHROPODS IN RELATION TO PLANT DISEASE Incidence of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus Infection in Abandoned
 

Summary:  . The results of the current study conÞrmed the presence of Las in both D. citri and plant tissue in abandoned... in Abandoned Citrus Occurring in Proximity to Commercially Managed Groves SIDDHARTH TIWARI, HANNAH LEWIS... citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri Kuwayama), with insecticide applications. However, D. citri in ...

  

Source: Florida, University of - College of Engineering. Software and Analysis of Advanced Materials Processing Center

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Materials Science

 
53 Work Plan to Plug and Abandon Well CdV-16-2(i) LA-UR-09-2704 1 May 2009
 

Summary:  #12;#12;Work Plan to Plug and Abandon Well CdV-16-2(i) LA-UR-09-2704 1 May 2009 EP2009-0227 Work... Plan to Plug and Abandon Cañon de Valle Well CdV-16-2(i) Primary Purpose This work plan summarizes... the methods Los Alamos National Laboratory (the Laboratory) proposes to use in plugging and abandoning

  

Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
54 Responses of butterfly and moth species to restored cattle grazing in semi-natural grasslands
 

Summary:  5 years of reinitiated grazing), and (3) abandoned former pastures. Generalized linear modelling... in abandoned pastures. None of the old-pasture species had become more abundant in restored pastures. Three... with old pastures differed from species associated with abandoned pastures in their recent distributional

  

Source: Helsinki, University of - Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Metapopulation Research Group

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
55 PrologDLinda: An Embedding of Linda in SICStus Prolog
 

Summary:  the waiting action request is abandoned. Currently the abandon request is an internal mechanism within... . A useful mech­ anism, called an 'abandon request', has been introduced in the imple­ mentation... processor running all the application processes and the centralized tuple space, through to the ...

  

Source: Sutcliffe, Geoff - Department of Computer Science, University of Miami

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
56 Responses of butterfly and moth species to restored cattle grazing in semi-natural grasslands
 

Summary:  5 years of reinitiated grazing), and (3) abandoned former pastures. Generalized linear modelling... in abandoned pastures. None of the old-pasture species had become more abundant in restored pastures. Three... with old pastures differed from species associated with abandoned pastures in their recent distributional

  

Source: Helsinki, University of - Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Metapopulation Research Group

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
57 Average Delay Guarantee in Server Systems Using Admission Control
 

Summary:  implemented and applied on the standard PostgreSQL database server running the TPC-C warehouse application... such as request latency and abandon rate that usually underly service level objectives (SLOs) as perceived... , an industry-standard benchmark, running on the PostgreSQL database server. 2. BACKGROUND 2.1 Server systems ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
58 Soil Carbon Accumulation During Temperate Forest Succession
 

Summary:  abandonment for some of the abandoned sites, describing management practices for the current fields... Soil Carbon Accumulation During Temperate Forest Succession on Abandoned Low Productivity... types that are considered `marginal' for agriculture and have been abandoned extensively ...

  

Source: Grogan, Paul - Department of Biology, Queen's University (Kingston)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
59 Run-time Modification of the Class Hierarchy in a Live Java Development Environment
 

Summary:  is running. For interoperability with standard Java classes, JPie's dynamic classes use a compiled proxy... the possibility of syntactic errors. In addition to standard Java support for graphical user interfaces... require the programmer to provide explicit instructions on how current data should be migrated. The effort

  

Source: Goldman, Kenneth J. - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
60 ENGINEERING SOLUTION OF A BASIC CALL-CENTER MODEL Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
 

Summary:  to rapidly compute approximations for all the standard steady- state performance measures in the basic call... distribution, s servers, r extra waiting spaces and IID customer abandonment times with a general distribution... . Empirical studies of call centers indicate that the service-time and abandon-time distributions often

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics


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61 Performance analysis and optimization in customer contact centers Vrije Universiteit, Department of Mathematics
 

Summary:  . These per- formance models are used for workforce planning. We dis- cuss current practice, and discuss its... a seconds. Often we see values such as = 80 and a = 20 (the `industry standard', for what it's worth... - ways clear. Another way to define service times is by the number of abandoned calls. Customers ...

  

Source: Koole, Ger - Department of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

Collection: Mathematics ; Engineering

 
62 OPERATIONS RESEARCH Vol. 57, No. 1, JanuaryFebruary 2009, pp. 6681
 

Summary:  in Many-Server Queues with Abandonment Mor Armony Stern School, New York University, New York, New York... before starting service in a many-server queue with customer abandonment. The queue is assumed... the customers, is to induce some customers to balk (leave immediately without wait- ing) or abandon earlier

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
63 CO2 leakage through existing wells: current technology and regulations S. Taku Ide1
 

Summary:  CO2 leakage through existing wells: current technology and regulations S. Taku Ide1 , S. Julio... the crust, and as such present zones of elevated risk to CO2 storage projects. Although current well closure... and abandonment technology appears sufficient to contain CO2 at most sites, individual wells may suffer from

  

Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Laboratory, Carbon Sequestration Initiative

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
64 Multiple Layer Based Background Maintenance In Complex Environment , Quan Pan1
 

Summary:  the original and the current background separately. Fusing the properties of object motion in image pixels... sources of scene changes, including ghosts, abandon objects and illumination changes. An intelligent video... background update algorithm is a challenge. Other problems such as ghost, abandon object, and illumination

  

Source: Li, Stan Z. - National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
65 Effects of different angling practices on post-release behaviour of nest-guarding
 

Summary:  and air exposure increased abandonment rates compared with controls. These results show that sublethal... could result in increased nest abandonment. K E Y W O R D S : angling, catch-and-release, nest... abandonment, parental care, tournaments. Introduction Recreational angling is a globally popular activity

  

Source: Cooke, Steven J. - Department of Biology, Carleton University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
66 Global Change and Water Resources in the Mediterranean Mountains: Threats and
 

Summary:  dependent. At plot scale, abandonment of traditional cultivation practices in the valley slopes had... recorded. We attribute this trend to the process of revegetation after farmland abandonment. Changes have... ), along with a clear trend towards extensification and land abandonment (Rounsevell et al, 2005). Large

  

Source: Portugués, Santiago Beguería - Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
67 Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference B. Johansson, S. Jain, J. Montoya-Torres, J. Hugan, and E. Yucesan, eds.
 

Summary:  systems, we develop new real-time delay predictors that effectively cope with customer abandonment... , and customer abandonment. In this paper, we present initial results of ongoing research extending Ibrahim... models both with and without customer abandonment. Our main contribution here is to propose new real

  

Source: Ibrahim, Rouba - Département d'Informatique et Recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal; Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Engineering ; Mathematics

 
68 Proceedings of the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference S. J. Mason, R. R. Hill, L. Moench, O. Rose, eds.
 

Summary:  in the GI/M/s model, but that there is a need to go beyond it in the GI/GI/s+GI model, allowing abandonment... in the overloaded GI/GI/s+GI model, with customer abandonment. We in- troduce more queue-length-based delay... estimators for this case with customer abandonment in §6 and show simula- tion results quantifying

  

Source: Ibrahim, Rouba - Département d'Informatique et Recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal; Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Engineering ; Mathematics

 
69 Call Center Performance Indicators Oualid Jouini1
 

Summary:  customer abandonments. Based on data from a number of different call centers we define a new model... and show that the new model fits reality very well. Keywords call centers; Erlang A; abandonments; metrics... they get service. In reality some calls abandon, and therefore there is a discrepancy between the Erlang C

  

Source: Koole, Ger - Department of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

Collection: Mathematics ; Engineering

 
70 W ater QualitW ater Qualit School of AgricultureSchool of AgricultureSchool of AgricultureSchool of AgricultureSchool of Agriculture
 

Summary:  these laws. Current regulations state that an abandoned well is one "whose original purpose and use have been... WestLafayette,IndianaWestLafayette,IndianaWestLafayette,Indiana USDACooperatingUSDACooperatingUSDACooperatingUSDACooperatingUSDACooperating Plugging Abandoned Water Wells... windmill, a pit near an ...

  

Source: Fernández-Juricic, Esteban - Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
71 Latitudinal Variation in Physiological and Behavioral Responses of Nest-Guarding Smallmouth Bass to Common Recreational
 

Summary:  . In the current study, we sought to systematically evaluate the rates of nest abandonment by nesting smallmouth... abandonment (Philipp et al. 1997; Hanson et al. 2007). In the current study, all ST fish were removed from... sites. Interestingly, brood abandonment rates were highest in ...

  

Source: Cooke, Steven J. - Department of Biology, Carleton University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
72 Predicting the Impacts of Future Sea-Level Rise on an Endangered Lagomorph
 

Summary:  Migration No migration Abandonment Protection Abandonment Protection Current conditions 1172 1172 1172 1172... rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri) across its geographic distribution under scenarios of current... (protection and abandonment of human-domi- nated areas). Not surprisingly, ...

  

Source: Wilkins, Neal - Institute of Renewable Natural Resources & Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
73 Replication of FLOSS Research as eResearch Andrea Wiggins, James Howison, & Kevin Crowston Syracuse University School of Information Studies
 

Summary:  elements for FLOSS research, to determine how replicable current research is, and to provide a platform... papers. English & Schweik (2007) classify OSS projects based on metrics for success versus abandonment... . For the replication of the success-abandonment classification analysis, we were able to use the same FLOSSmole ...

  

Source: Crowston, Kevin - School of Information Studies, Syracuse University

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
74 MATHEMATICS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH Vol. 35, No. 2, May 2010, pp. 347362
 

Summary:  -5471 10 3502 0347 informs® doi 10.1287/moor.1100.0443 © 2010 INFORMS Customer Abandonment in Many... distribution. When a customer's waiting time in queue exceeds his patience time, the customer abandons... the system without service. For the performance of such a system, we focus on the abandonment process

  

Source: Dai, Jiangang "Jim" - School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
75 The Regeneration of a Highly Disturbed Ecosystem: A Mined
 

Summary:  . The intensity of mining activities and the pattern of abandonment of mined sectors strongly influenced abiotic... ). Ombrotrophic peat- Received 24 April 2001; accepted 30 October 2001. Current address for Marc Girard: De... ; Mitsch and Gosselink 2000). Nevertheless, most bogs are completely abandoned after the end of mining ac

  

Source: Lavoie, Claude - Centre de recherche en aménagement et développement, Université Laval

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
76 The Error in Steady-State Approximations for the Time-Dependent Waiting Time
 

Summary:  = 0 if there is no abandonment.) Standard results for birth-death processes then ensure that for n c... about such errors. For example, customer abandonment leads to dramatic reductions in the error in steady... -state approximations as compared to a system without customer abandonment. Key words: Poisson's ...

  

Source: Henderson, Shane - School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
77 Statistical Analysis of a Telephone Call Center: A Queueing-Science Perspective
 

Summary:  abandonment behavior and service durations. Each component involves different basic mathematical structures... , Khintchine-Pollaczek formula, service times, arrival rate, abandonment rate, multiserver queues. #12;Contents... FOR SERVICE OR ABANDONING 23 6.1 Waiting times are exponentially distributed

  

Source: Shen, Haipeng - Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
78 Regulation of Decomposition and Methane Dynamics across Natural,
 

Summary:  ) and methane (CH4) exchange in peat samples representing different profiles at nat- ural, mined, mined-abandoned... of these soils. Mining and abandonment led to reduced nutrient and substrate availability and occasionally drier... that commercial peat mining, post-mining abandon- ment, and restoration of block-cut peatlands al- ...

  

Source: Moore, Tim - Department of Geography, McGill University

 

Collection: Geosciences ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
79 MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Vol. 51, No. 2, February 2005, pp. 221235
 

Summary:  for all the standard steady-state performance measures in the basic call-center queueing model M... with a general distribution, s servers, r extra wait- ing spaces and IID customer abandonment times... with a general distribution. Empirical studies of call centers indicate that the service-time and abandon

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
80 Individual Reproductive Success of Largemouth Bass and Smallmouth Bass Subjected to Different Components of
 

Summary:  . Although catch-and-release angling and its effects on nest abandonment have been well documented, very... little research has examined the effect that competitive angling practices may have on nest abandonment... , and a combination of these practices) and assessed subsequent nest abandonment. We also examined the importance

  

Source: Cooke, Steven J. - Department of Biology, Carleton University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine


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81 Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 11, 12471257, 2011 www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1247/2011/
 

Summary:  ., 2010), as well as on (iii) periods of activity in currently abandoned channels (Bollschweiler et al... the identification and interpretation of spatial patterns of past events in currently abandoned chan- nels. We... reconstruction of past debris-flow activity in five chan- nels that are ...

  

Source: Stoffel, Markus - Institut für Geologie, Universität Bern

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
82 COPING WITH TIME-VARYING DEMAND WHEN SETTING STAFFING REQUIREMENTS
 

Summary:  these systems is not straightforward, because standard queueing theory focuses on the long-run steady... and a high quality-of-service standard. In Section 4 we discuss refinements for harder cases with medium... -to-long service times, but still with a high quality-of-service standard. We show how an associated infinite

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
83 Jana E. Compton Richard D. Boone Glenn Motzkin David R. Foster
 

Summary:  , and nitrogen cycling, recovery of these pro- cesses after abandonment is insuciently understood. We examined... plain, over 80% of which had been cultivated and subsequently abandoned at least 40 years ago. The two... youngest old-®eld forests, located on sites abandoned 40±60 years prior to our sampling, had the lowest min

  

Source: Harvard University, Harvard Forest

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
84 Introduction Uranium is a common element in nature, and has been used for centuries as a coloring agent in
 

Summary:  decided that a further review of the current hazards associated with uranium mining TENORM was warranted... is responsible for setting environmental standards under the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act... from abandoned uranium mines and evaluates which may pose the greatest hazards to members of the public

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
85 Landscape Ecology vol. 1 no. 1 pp 29-36 (1987) SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague
 

Summary:  : urban, cropland, abandoned cropland, pasture, and forest. Land use data were obtained from historical... simulated cropland well, but simulated patches of forest and abandoned cropland were fewer, larger, and more... spatially explicit, and there is no standard approach to incorporate spatial dynamics into transition models

  

Source: Turner, Monica G. - Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
86 OIKOS 90: 469476. Copenhagen 2000 Survivorship of an ant-tended membracid as a function of ant
 

Summary:  tending. Treehoppers tended by the ant Formica integra were abandoned as the summer progressed, although... abandoned all treehoppers, treehoppers on host plants with fewer initial ants were abandoned first. Results... and Addicott 1991, Bronstein 1994). In the current paper, I use a host-visitor modeling ...

  

Source: Morales, Manuel - Biology Department, Williams College

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
87 Call Center Mathematics A scientific method for understanding and improving contact centers
 

Summary:  * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.6 Service level and abandonments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3... .3 The objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5.4 The standard... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5.6 Forecasting in the presence of ...

  

Source: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Mathematics, Stochastics Section

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
88 Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference S. Chick, P. J. Sanchez, D. Ferrin, and D. J. Morrice, eds.
 

Summary:  , with each a load of 100 Erlang. Customers that find no free agent with the right skill abandon (a motivation... for this choice is given below). The objective of this call center is to have less than 5% abandonments. In Table... &2 % abandonments 105 105 0 4.8 90 90 25 4.8 0 0 202 4.8 in which skill-based routing is ...

  

Source: Koole, Ger - Department of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

Collection: Mathematics ; Engineering

 
89 December 2003 / Vol. 53 No. 12 BioScience 1159 Since the origin of agriculture, the human popula-
 

Summary:  that the world's human population will stop growing before 2100 (Lutz et al.2001), and current trends... will be abandoned, leading to forest recovery.Forested areas are already expanding in developed countries where... years. Despite the rapid structural recovery, the legacy of pre-abandonment land use, including

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
90 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
 

Summary:  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2 Handling Abandoned Instances in JPie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.3 Dynamic Ancestor Changes... hierarchy can be modified while the program is running. For interoperability with standard Java classes... interface which eliminates the possibility of syntactic errors. In addition to standard Java ...

  

Source: Goldman, Kenneth J. - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
91 Coping with Time-Varying Demand When Setting Staffing Requirements for a
 

Summary:  of the standard normal distribution. For the stationary Markovian M/M/s M model with customer abandonment... is not straightforward, because standard queueing theory focuses on the long-run steady-state behavior of stationary... in the easiest cases--those systems with short service times and a high quality-of-service ...

  

Source: Whitt, Ward - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Mathematics

 
92 7.0 CONCLUSIONS 7.1 Summary
 

Summary:  and exploration sites that were abandoned over the years. With this report we have tried to identify the most... likely exposure scenario for the abandoned mines, develop a first order estimate of cancer risks using... on the National Priorities List are outside of the major uranium- producing states. Most abandoned uranium ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
93 Abandonment of potty training in Australian society
 

Summary:  Abandonment of potty training in Australian society: Environmental, social and health issues Anna... Christie "Abandonment of potty training" for The Restraint Project January 2008 1 The euphemistically named... to as the "abandonment of maternal control"1 over the child's progress in toilet training. Control of bodily ...

  

Source: Franklin, James - School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales

 

Collection: Multidisciplinary Databases and Resources ; Mathematics

 
94 Environmental causes and consequences of forest clearance and agricultural
 

Summary:  and widespread field abandonment and forest recovery during the 1900s. The current landscape consists... abandonment in central New York, USA Kathryn M. Flinn*, Mark Vellend and P.L. Marks Department of Ecology... and abundance across landscapes, but current plant communities may also reflect a legacy of ...

  

Source: Vellend, Mark - Departments of Botany & Zoology & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
95 Journal of Insect Behavior, Vol.12, No. 1,1999 Use of Rainfall Cues by Abedus herberti
 

Summary:  floods as a cue to abandon streams. "Stream abandonment behavior" consisted of exiting the stream after... with simulated rainfall demonstrated that the behavioral cue for stream abandonment behavior is probably related... play an auxiliary role in the behavior, however. Stream abandonment behavior can only ...

  

Source: Lytle, David A. - Department of Zoology, Oregon State University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
96 Revised: March 1, 2005 Page 1 UCSB Environmental Health & Safety
 

Summary:  spill-cleanups, odor complaints, pickup of abandoned chemicals and related alarms (see Attachment). EH... -call at all times via the "Technical Assistance Cellphone" (TAC). Currently that number is 893-3194. · Large... -scale responses are coordinated through the "Incident Command System" which is the standard emergency ...

  

Source: Akhmedov, Azer - Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
97 Mediation of a corticosterone-induced reproductive conflict Oliver P. Love,a,* Creagh W. Breuner,b
 

Summary:  Abstract Current research in birds suggests that a conflict should exist during reproduction for the role... abandonment. We examined the relationship between CORT and nest desertion in breeding wild female European... CORT through analysis of corticosteroid-binding globulin (CBG). Free baseline CORT levels of nest-abandoning

  

Source: Simon Fraser University, Centre for Wildlife Ecology

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
98 Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference M. E. Kuhl, N. M. Steiger, F. B. Armstrong, and J. A. Joines, eds.
 

Summary:  (police, ambulance), etc. A current trend is the extension to a contact center, whereby telephone services... on many criteria. A queued customer may abandon without receiving service. In a multi-skill call center... .g., each hour, day, etc.) and, in multi-skill centers, by call type; (2) the abandonment ratio

  

Source: L'Ecuyer, Pierre - Département d'Informatique et recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
99 Original article Soil chemical properties in abandoned Mediterranean cropland after succession
 

Summary:  abandonment, the cropland was fertilized following a standard scheme in the area: application of a fertilizer... Original article Soil chemical properties in abandoned Mediterranean cropland after succession... Quercus ilex Soil fertility Tree planting a b s t r a c t Large extents of cropland have been ...

  

Source: Rey Benayas, José María - Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alcala; Villar-Salvador, Pedro - Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alcala

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
100 Rational Abandonment from Tele-Queues: Nonlinear Waiting Costs with Heterogeneous Preferences
 

Summary:  that abandonment decisions are taken online (cf. [10]), based on the customer's assessment of the current situation... Rational Abandonment from Tele-Queues: Nonlinear Waiting Costs with Heterogeneous Preferences Nahum... Shimkin 1 and Avishai Mandelbaum 2 November 2003 Abstract We consider the modelling of ...

  

Source: Shimkin, Nahum - Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

 

Collection: Engineering


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