Despite mounting evidence that tropical lakes may experience an array of phytoplankton nutrient limitation regimes, references to low-latitude being predominantly nitrogen limited remain common in the literature. To assess current understanding regimes lakes, we performed a literature review with following objectives: First, quantify and summarize observations (N), phosphorus (P), colimitation ...

Assessing and mapping patterns of (semi-)natural vegetation types at a large spatial scale is a difficult task. The challenge increases if the floristic variation within vegetation types (i.e., subtype variation of species composition) is the target. A desirable way to deal with this task may be to address such vegetation patterns with remote-sensing approaches. In particular data from multispe...

This study applied statistical approaches to the discrimination of spatial variations between sites and between forest types in the upper area of the Liukuei Experimental Forest of Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taiwan. The main purpose was to compare the effectiveness of various statistical approaches and then present the best strategy for discriminating the spatial variations of species ...

As the technology of VLSI manufacturing process continues to shrink, it becomes a challenging problem to generate layout patterns that can satisfy performance and manufacturability requirements. Wire width variation is one of the main issues that have a large impact on chip performance and yield loss. Particularly, etching process is the last and most influential process to wire width variation...

Investigating how environmental features shape the genetic structure of populations is crucial for understanding how they are potentially adapted to their habitats, as well as for sound management. In this study, we assessed the relative importance of spatial distribution, ocean currents and sea surface temperature (SST) on patterns of putatively neutral and adaptive genetic variation among Ame...

Empirical investigations of the impacts of anthropogenic stressors on marine organisms are typically performed under controlled laboratory conditions, onshore mesocosms, or via offshore experiments with realistic (but uncontrolled) environmental variation. These approaches have merits, but onshore setups are generally small sized and fail to recreate natural stressor fields, whereas offshore st...

In this work, a performance evaluation of AVC Intra and JPEG2000 in terms of rate-distortion performance is conducted. A set of High Definition sequences with different spatial resolutions is used for this purpose. Results obtained show quite competitive performance between two coding approaches, while in some cases, AVC Intra, in its High Profile, outperforms JPEG2000.