Despite the immense ongoing efforts to map brain functional connections and organizations with resting-state functional MRI (rsfMRI), the mechanisms governing the temporally coherent rsfMRI signals remain unclear. In particular, there is a lack of direct evidence regarding the morphological foundation and plasticity of these rsfMRI derived connections. In this study, we investigated the role of...

In spite of numerous habitat restoration programs in fresh waters with an aggregate annual funding of millions of dollars, many populations of Pacific salmon remain significantly imperiled. Habitat restoration strategies that address limited environmental attributes and partial salmon life-history requirements or approaches that attempt to force aquatic habitat to conform to idealized but ecolo...

Landscape fragmentation and habitat loss are significant threats to the conservation of biological diversity. Creating and restoring corridors between isolated habitat patches can help mitigate or reverse the impacts of fragmentation. It is important that restoration and protection efforts be undertaken in the most efficient and effective way possible because conservation budgets are often seve...

Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have become a hot research topic. In UASNs, nodes can be affected by ocean currents and external forces, which could result in sudden link disruption. Therefore, designing a flexible and efficient link disruption restoration mechanism to ensure the network connectivity is a challenge. In the paper, we propose a glider-assisted restoration mechanism wh...

Abstract The European COST Action “Unifying Approaches to Marine Connectivity for improved Resource Management the Seas” (SEA-UNICORN, 2020‐2025) is an international research coordination initiative that unites interdisciplinary community of scientists and policymakers from over 100 organizations across Europe beyond. It establishing a globally harmonized framework deliver actionable, transdisc...

Some services delivered in IP networks, like IP television, Telephony over IP and critical services, have strong robustness requirements. Consequently, the communications delivering those services must be resilient to failures in the network. This paper proposes a new approach to improve communication protection. It consists in deploying a routing overlay dedicated to resilience in an autonomou...

Wetland ecosystems provide multiple functions and services for the well-being of humans. In urban environments, planning and decision making about wetland restoration inevitably involves conflicting objectives, trade-offs, uncertainties and conflicting value judgments. This study applied trade-off and multi criteria decision analysis to analyze and quantify the explicit trade-offs between the s...

©2012 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Connectivity Restoration in Large Landscapes: Modeling Landscape Condition and Ecological Flows Robert F. Baldwin (school of Forest, agricultural and Environmental sciences, clemson University, baldwi6@clemson .edu), sarah E. Reed (north america Program, Wildlife conservation society, [email protected]), Brad H. McRae (...

An efficient and well-operated network is designed so that its parts function well together. This coordinated efficiency arises from having each element of a network perform those tasks for which it is best designed. Similar to the division of labor in a human society, the division of labor amongst elements in a communications network allows them to maximize the network’s output (e.g., bandwidt...

For Internet of Things (IoT) systems operating in areas with limited network connectivity, reliable and safe functionality must be ensured. This can done using special test cases which are examining system behavior outage restoration. These have to optimal when approached from the testing effort viewpoint. When process viewpoint, sense that a business supported by tested might affected restorat...