A GALLANT ACT.

Effects of Gallant for Spartina control

Gallant Adaptive smoothing of DEMs V3

DEMs derived from dense remotely sensed measurements, including lidarand radar-based DEMs, provide much greater surface detail than traditional interpolated DEMs but suffer from random noise that perturbs measures of surface shape such as slope and flow direction. Smoothing is an effective method of reducing noise but also tends to impact on important surface features, lowering hilltops, raisin...

A heuristic for the long-term electricity generation planning problem using the Bloom and Gallant formulation

Long-term power planning is a stochastic problem often confronted by electrical utilities in liberalized markets. One can model it for profit maximization—using market-price estimation functions for each interval—by posing it as a quadratic programming problem with some linear equalities and an exponential number of load-matching linear inequality constraints. In order to avoid handling all the...

The final act-a?

This issue of Acta Neuropsychiatrica, the last in this particular format, publishes the scientific abstracts from the annual conference of the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research (ASPR) that is taking place in Sydney this year. It begins with a scene-setting editorial from the Conference Convenor (1) that discusses the main theme of the meeting namely brainwaves . I would like to take...

A PKGarious Balancing Act

The pathologically hypertrophied and failing heart is a battlefield in a war that would make even George Lucas proud. On the one side, you have hemodynamic, neurohormonal, morphological, and cellular/molecular dark forces urging the ventricle toward decompensation and ultimate demise. On the other, Jedi signaling cascades try valiantly to stave off the impending disaster. Alas, unlike the movie...