Batumi Raptor Count: autumn raptor migration count data from the Batumi bottleneck, Republic of Georgia

Summary of Raptor Codes

A fountain code produces for given set of k input symbols (x1, . . . , xk) a potentially limitless stream of output symbols z1, z2, . . .. The input and output symbols can be binary vectors of arbitrary length. Each output symbol is the sum of a randomly and independently chosen subset of the input symbols. Information describing the relations between input and output symbols is obtained at the...

Raptor: Integrating Checkpoints and Thread Migration for Cluster Management

Software distributed shared-memory (SDSM) provides the abstraction necessary to run shared-memory applications on cost-effective parallel platforms such as clusters of workstations. However, problems such as cluster component reliability and cluster management, which are not directly related to performance, need to be addressed before SDSM solutions can be widely adopted. This paper presents Ra...

Long-Term Phenological Shifts in Raptor Migration and Climate

Climate change is having a discernible effect on many biological and ecological processes. Among observed changes, modifications in bird phenology have been widely documented. However, most studies have interpreted phenological shifts as gradual biological adjustments in response to the alteration of the thermal regime. Here we analysed a long-term dataset (1980-2010) of short-distance migrator...

RAPTOR Technical Report

In this technical report we present RAPTOR (Rapid Three-Dimensional Orientation Resolver), which is a novel pipeline for inferring solely from 2D image data the 3D position and orientation (pose) of known classes of rigid objects for which man-made 3D models are available. There are many existing systems and techniques that attempt to infer 3D meshes and scene information from 2D image or video...

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