In general, community similarity is thought to decay with distance; however, this view may be complicated by the relative roles of different ecological processes at different geographical scales, and by the compositional perspective (e.g. species, functional group and phylogenetic lineage) used. Coastal salt marshes are widely distributed worldwide, but no studies have explicitly examined varia...

Recently pooling designs have been used in screening experiments in molecular biology. In some applications, the property to be screened is defined on subsets of items, instead of on individual items. Such a model is usually referred to as the complex model. In this paper we give an upper bound of the number of tests required in a pooling design for the complex model (with given design paramete...

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After the occurrence of network intrusion, the system is running in a state of the lower quality. Along with the system’s tolerant capacity decline, it eventually stops providing services or even shutdown. This paper developed a Markov intrusion tolerance model (SMP), aiming at difficultly evaluates and enhances the system’s tolerant capacity issues. Based on formalized related security state o...

To build highly available or reliable applications out of unreliable third-party components, some software-implemented fault-tolerant mechanisms are introduced to gracefully deal with failures in the components. In this paper, we address an important issue in the approach: how to select the most suitable fault-tolerant mechanisms for a given application in a specific context. To alleviate the d...

We present a new class of error-tolerant pooling designs by constructing d−disjunct matrices associated with subspaces of a finite vector space.

Delay Tolerant Networking has been a hot topic of interest in networking since the start of the century, and has sparked a significant amount of research in the area, particularly in an age where the ultimate goal is to provide ubiquitous connectivity, even in regions previously considered inaccessible. Protocols and applications in popular use on the Internet are not readily applicable to such...

Synthesis of the first P(V)-bridged bis(NHC) ligand 7 was achieved via deprotonation of P(V)-functionalized bis(imidazolium) salt 6, which was obtained via oxidative desulfurization of bis(imidazole-2-thion-4-yl)phosphane 2. Bis(imidazolium) salt 6 was also employed to synthesize the corresponding silver complex 8. All new products were firmly established by spectroscopic and spectrometric meth...

It is important for a network to tolerate as many faults as possible. With the graph representation of an interconnection network, a k-regular hamiltonian and hamiltonian connected network is super fault-tolerant hamiltonian if it remains hamiltonian after removing up to k 2 vertices and/or edges and remains hamiltonian connected after removing up to k 3 vertices and/or edges. Super fault-toler...