JEL classification: C65 D81 Q23 Q57 This paper provides a review of research contributions on forest management and planning using multicriteria decision making (MCDM) based on an exhaustive literature survey. The review primarily focuses on the application aspects highlighting theoretical underpinnings and controversies. It also examines the nature of the problems addressed and incorporation o...

Genetic interaction screens have aided our understanding of complex genetic traits, diseases, and biological pathways. However, approaches for synthetic genetic analysis with null-alleles in metazoans have not been feasible. Here, we present a CRISPR/Cas9-based Synthetic Genetic Interaction (CRISPR-SGI) approach enabling systematic double-mutant generation. Applying this technique in Caenorhabd...

The rapidly increasing number of cores in modern microprocessors is pushing the current high performance computing (HPC) systems into the petascale and exascale era. The hybrid nature of these systems—distributed memory across nodes and shared memory with non-uniform memory access within each node—poses a challenge to application developers. In this paper, we study a hybrid approach to programm...

Choosing the appropriate management system is essential for sustainable agricultural practices. Yet, soil-specific properties at subsurface are seldom considered when choosing tillage system. This study assessed effect of depth on physical–hydraulic in three contrasting soil classes establishment perennial crops. Tillage practices were evaluated soils with natural dense layers (Inceptisols and ...

The ONYX program is designed to fill the need for planning in application areas where traditional planning methodology is difficult to apply. While the program being developed will assist with the planning of cancer therapy, its architecture is intended to be of use whenever goals are ill-specified, plan operators have uncertain effects, or tradeoffs and unresolvable conflicts occur between goa...

In this paper, we present an algorithm and a system to perform dynamic view dependent simplification of large geographical maps through a novel use of graphics hardware. Given a map as a collection of non-intersecting chains and a tolerance parameter for each chain, we produce a simplified map that resembles the original map, satisfying the condition that the distance between each point on the ...

Computational grid has a promising future in large-scale computing, because it enables the sharing of widely distributed computing resources. Good managements with excellent scheduling algorithms are in great demand to take full advantage of it. Many scheduling algorithms in grid computing are for independent tasks. However, communications are very common in scientific computing programs. In th...

We have determined the nucleotide sequence of a 2375-base-pair DNA fragment, which contained the sporulation gene spo0A cloned from Bacillus subtilis. The sequence had only one long open reading frame consisting of 239 codons, which was found to correspond to the spo0A gene by comparing the nucleotide sequence of the wild-type gene with those of the mutant alleles. The calculated molecular weig...