this paper investigates a discrete-time impatient customer queue with bernoulli-schedule vacation interruption. the  vacation times and the service times during regular busy period and during working vacation period are assumed to follow geometric distribution. we obtain the steady-state probabilities at arbitrary and outside observer's observation epochs using recursive technique. cost an...

We design a control system for a prosthesis test robot that was previously developed for transfemoral prosthesis design and test. The robot’s control system aims to mimic human walking in the sagittal plane. It has been seen in previous work that trajectory control fails to produce human-like forces. Therefore, we utilize an impedance controller to achieve reasonable tracking of motion and forc...

Seed germination is the key step for successful establishment, growth and further expansion of population especially for alien plants with annual life cycle. Traits like better adaptability and germination response were thought to be associated with plant invasion. However, there are not enough empirical studies correlating adaptation to environmental factors with germination response of alien ...

426 BioScience • May 2008 / Vol. 58 No. 5 www.biosciencemag.org T impact of introduced, invasive species on communities and ecosystems is one of today’s most pressing global environmental problems (Wilcove et al. 1998, Mack et al. 2000). Biological invasions are a leading cause of extinction and biodiversity loss (Wilcove et al. 1998), and invasive plants are permanently altering natural commun...

Nature in cities is concentrated in urban green spaces, which are key areas for urban biodiversity and also important areas to connect people with nature. To conserve urban biodiversity within these natural refugia, habitat restoration such as weed control and revegetation is often implemented. These actions are expected to benefit biodiversity, although species known to be affected by urbaniza...

We report the 3.16 Mb draft genome of Acinetobacter sp. strain BMW17, a Gram-negative bacterium in the class of Gammaproteobacteria, isolated from the rhizospheric region of Phragmites karka, an invasive weed in Chilika Lake, Odisha, India. The strain BMW17(T) is capable of degrading cellulose and is also an efficient plant growth promoter that can be useful for various phytoremedial and commer...