Restoration of altered or degraded habitats is often a key component in the conservation plan of native aquatic species, but introduced species may influence the response of the native community to restoration. Recent habitat restoration of the middle section of the Provo River in central Utah, USA, provided an opportunity to evaluate the effect of habitat restoration on the native fish communi...

Interest in ecological restoration has recently intensified as scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders use restoration in management strategies to address and mitigate global climate change and biodiversity loss. Northern ecosystems offer special challenges to restoration managers because of their short growing seasons and long recovery periods. This special feature of Ecology and Society on...

in this paper proposes a fuzzy multi-objective hybrid genetic and bee colony optimization algorithm(ga-bco) to find the optimal restoration of loads of power distribution network under fault.restoration of distribution systems is a complex combinatorial optimization problem that should beefficiently restored in reasonable time. to improve the efficiency of restoration and facilitate theactivity...

in this paper, power system restoration in the presence of svc and tcsc in partial outage conditions is considered and a new method for maximum load restoration using different control variables is presented. control variables are tap of transformers, generation rescheduling and operating points of facts devices. objective function is restored load (to be maximized) and constraints are voltage ...

In shared mesh restoration, a distributed signaling protocol is used to reroute connections from failed service paths to restoration paths upon failure events. However, even when the network contains sufficient capacity, the restoration paths could be blocked for two different reasons: (1) with distributed restoration path selection schemes, multiple restoration paths may compete for the capaci...

This paper describes a novel ltering method to reconstruct an arbitrarily focused image from two dierently focused images. Based on the assumption that image scene has two layers { foreground and background {, two dierently fo-cused images are used as inputs, one of which is focused on the foreground and the other is focused on the background. The linear equation that holds between these images...

Since their introduction in a classic paper by Rudin, Osher, and Fatemi [], total variation minimizing models have become one of the most popular and successful methodologies for image restoration. New developments continue to expand the capability of the basic method in various aspects. Many faster numerical algorithms and more sophisticated applications have been proposed. This chapter revi...

We study the properties of H-dibaryon matter through the SO(3) Skyrmion solution on a three-dimensional hypersphere S3. As the density increases, the swelling of H-dibaryon is found. Above a critical density, the system becomes uniform in terms of the baryon density. In this uniform phase, the critical order parameter is largely reduced, which can be interpreted as the chiral symmetry restorati...

In this talk, we study a fast total variation minimization method for image restoration. In the proposed method, we use the exact total variation minimization scheme to denoise the deblurred image. An alternating minimization algorithm is employed to solve the proposed total variation minimization problem. Our experimental results show that the quality of restored images by the proposed method ...

Before the invention of photography, the written and spoken word and artistic representation passed on the traditions of Japanese culture. The opening of Japan to international trade in 1854 and the Meiji Restoration in 1868 resulted in rapid modernization and profound cultural changes in Japanese life. At this time, the West brought with it the technology of photography ironically to record th...