PURPOSE: A wide variety of ecological forecasting tools are used to support the project planning process within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). These tools range from relatively simple empirical relations describing the expected habitat preferences of species (or guilds of species) to complex, dynamic models of water movement, sediment, and other material fluxes to behavior-based mode...

This paper proposed a new remote sensing observation capability evaluation model (RSOCE) based on analytic hierarchy process to quantitatively evaluate the of multi-satellite cooperative observation. The hierarchical is combination qualitative and quantitative analysis systematic decision method. According objective mission, we decompose complex problem into several levels number factors, compa...

based on mathematical equations, are hampered by the qualitative nature of ecological knowledge. In this article, we demonstrate that qualitative reasoning provides alternative and productive ways for ecologists to develop, organize, and implement models. We present a qualitative theory of population dynamics and use this theory to capture and simulate commonsense theories about population and ...

Multivariate Process Capability Indices (MPCI) show how well a manufacturing process can meet specifica-tion limits when quality characteristics enclose a relative correlation. Process capability is an important and commonly used metric for assessing and improving the quality of a production process. When quality charac-teristics of a product are correlated then an attractive comes close to MPC...

Mood symptoms in bipolar disorders are significantly related to psychosocial events, and the personalized identification of symptom triggers is important. Ecological momentary assessments have been used in paper-and-pencil form to explore emotional reactivity to daily life stress in patients with bipolar disorder. However, there are few data on long-term recurrence prevention effects using ecol...