We introduce the concept of a Reserved Delivery Subnetwork (RDS) to allow an information service provider to deliver a higher quality of service to its customers. A network provider implements an RDS by provisioning reserved bandwidth on paths from a central site to distributed locations, where customers of the information service are located. The amount of bandwidth reserved is a function of t...

Original oak (Quercus) forests in the southwestern Carpathian Mountains, Slovakia, were replaced by non-forest cover or managed stands often containing introduced non-native tree species. We compared the composition, richness, and abundance of litter-dwelling beetle (Coleoptera) communities in 30 stands across three management types: (i) reserved stands that most closely approximate the pre-cle...

BACKGROUND T1 mapping is widely used today in CMR, however, it underestimates true T1 values and its measurement error is influenced by several acquisition parameters. The purpose of this study was the extraction of accurate T1 data through the utilization of comprehensive, parallel Simulations for QUAntifying RElaxation Magnetic Resonance constants (SQUAREMR) of the MOLLI pulse sequence on a l...

The idea of assigning effective properties to an inhomogeneous medium, for example a composite material or a suspension of particles in fluid, is well known [4, 9, 14], but some methods used to calculate these effective properties have been sources of controversy over the years. In particular, the appearance of non-convergent integrals (or sums) in several calculational schemes has generated ma...

Government and public services have to not only enforce the requirements of the regulatory policies, but also have to satisfy the needs of preferences of their clients and customers. In this paper, we summarize the results of a multi-year case study conducted to assess the choices of campground users at the Shawnee National Forest (Illinois), which is managed by United States Forest Service. Th...

Fuelwood is the primary energy source for most Bhutanese and comprises 70% of national energy consumption. Nevertheless, forest cover and fuelwood supplies have increased in recent decades. The Government of Bhutan is committed to renewable energy development, reduced fossil fuel use, and sustainable forest management, but has not developed its wood biomass potential. We suggest that promoting ...

Simon (Theoret. Comput. Sci. 72 (1990) 65–94) has proved that every morphism from a free semigroup to a $nite semigroup S admits a Ramseyan factorization forest of height at most 9|S|. In this paper, we prove the same result of Simon with an improved bound of 7|S|. We provide a simple algorithm for constructing a factorization forest. In addition, we show that the algorithm cannot be improved s...