Final countdown for biodiversity hotspots

Supersymmetry: The Final Countdown

There is hope that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will tell us about the fate of supersymmetry at the TeVscale. Therefore we might try to identify our expectations for the discovery of SUSY, especially in the first years of operation of this machine. In this talk we shall concentrate on the simplest SUSY scheme: the MSSM with SUSY broken in a hidden sector mediated by interactions of g...

(The Final) Countdown

The Countdown game is one of the oldest TV show running in the world. It started broadcasting in 1972 on the french television and in 1982 on British channel 4, and it has been running since in both countries. The game, while extremely popular, never received any serious scientific attention, probably because it seems too simple at first sight. We present in this article an in-depth analysis of...

Sorting Networks: The Final Countdown

In this paper we extend the knowledge on the problem of empirically searching for sorting networks of minimal depth. We present new search space pruning techniques for the last four levels of a candidate sorting network by considering only the output set representation of a network. We present an algorithm for checking whether an n-input sorting network of depth d exists by considering the mini...

Warfare in biodiversity hotspots.

Conservation efforts are only as sustainable as the social and political context within which they take place. The weakening or collapse of sociopolitical frameworks during wartime can lead to habitat destruction and the erosion of conservation policies, but in some cases, may also confer ecological benefits through altered settlement patterns and reduced resource exploitation. Over 90% of the ...

Biodiversity Hotspots in India