Managed relocation is a controversial climate-adaptation strategy to combat negative climate change impacts on biodiversity. While the scientific community debates the merits of managed relocation1–12, species are already being moved to new areas predicted to be more suitable under climate change13,14. To inform these moves, we construct a quantitative decision framework to evaluate the timing ...

IMPORTANCE This study shows that relocation of an academic ophthalmology residency program from an inpatient to an outpatient setting in western New York does not affect the consult volume but affects management patterns and follow-up rates. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects on the ophthalmology consultation service of an academic program with relocation from a Regional Level-1 Trauma cent...

Job Losses, Outsourcing and Relocation: Empirical Evidence Using Microdata Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms’ employment decisions. The results for a sample of 32 countries show that both strategies have been more intense in the EU-15 countries than in the rest and that, in some cases, they have been complementar...

A planner for a self adaptable and reconfigurable fixture system is proposed. The system is composed of mobile support agents that support thin sheet metal parts to minimize part dimensional deformation during drilling and milling operations. Compliant sheet metal parts are widely used in various manufacturing processes including automotive and aerospace industries. The main role of the planner...

This analysis investigates changes in spatial access to safety-net primary care in a sample of US public housing residents relocating via the HOPE VI initiative from public housing complexes to voucher-subsidized rental units; substance misusers were oversampled. We used gravity-based models to measure spatial access to care, and used mixed models to assess pre-/post-relocation changes in acces...

The paper provides a powerful basic concept for object manipulation with finger relocation and extends the previous approaches in the area of stratified manipulation. The algorithm gives also some improvements of the developed software for smooth and stratified motion planning (MP). The key element of the approach is based strongly on the theory of stratified control for nonlinear systems. The ...