In this study, we concentrate on the area potentials to preserve, restore or create freshwater wetland ecosystems in the European Union in consideration of economic and bio-geophysical aspects. Expansion of settlements, agricultural areas and bioenergy plantations at the expense of wetlands and its corresponding fragmentation constitute a great challenge to nature conservation. Therefore, the u...

In this paper we deal with planning and optimization of survivable WDM networks. We investigate routing and planning of working and spare capacity for Wavelength Path and Virtual Wavelength Path networks. Models for recommendation of k diversified paths and diversified path restoration for WDM networks are presented. The results show the dependency of spare capacity cost from number of k recomm...

The architecture of today's long distance transmission networks, which we call the baseline architecture, is a complex and multi-layered hierarchy of Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) circuits. One premise of the baseline architecture is that restoration from network failures is provided mostly by SONET/SDH rings. This paper presents an alternative architecture that uses ATM and Optical Layer Cr...

Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse and productive ecosystems on Earth, and provide critical ecosystem services such as protein provisioning, coastal protection, and tourism revenue. Despite these benefits, coral reefs have been declining precipitously across the globe due to human impacts and climate change. Recent efforts to combat these declines are increasingly turning to restoration ...

Restoration has been elevated as an important strategy to reverse the decline of coastal wetlands worldwide. Current practice in restoration science emphasizes minimizing competition between out-planted propagules to maximize planting success. This paradigm persists despite the fact that foundational theory in ecology demonstrates that positive species interactions are key to organism success u...

Many factors influence restoration of competence to stand trial: age, IQ, severity of mental illness, criminal history, treatment history, and others. This commentary poses the question of whether competency to stand trial is also influenced by the setting in which restoration treatment occurs. Jail-based competency-restoration programs, which are in their infancy and have yet to produce large-...

Super-resolution restoration is the problem of restoring a high-resolution scene from multiple degraded low-resolution images under motion. Due to imaging blur and noise, this problem is ill-posed. Additional constraints such as smoothness of the solution (i.e. regularization) is often required to obtain a stable solution. While regularizing the cost function is a standard practice in image res...

Super-resolution restoration is the problem of restoring a high-resolution scene from multiple degraded low-resolution images under motion. Due to imaging blur and noise, this problem is ill-posed. Additional constraints such as smoothness of the solution via regularization is often required to obtain a stable solution. While adding a regularization term to the cost function is a standard pract...

We study the computational complexity of the Spare Capacity Allocation problem arising in optical networks that use a shared mesh restoration scheme. In this problem we are given a network with edge capacities and point-topoint demands, and the goal is to allocate two edge-disjoint paths for each demand (a working path and a so-called restoration path, which is activated only if the working pat...

The stainless steel crown (SSC) is an extremely durable restoration with several clear-cut indications for use in primary teeth including: following a pulpotomy/pulpectomy; for teeth with developmental defects or large carious lesions involving multiple surfaces where an amalgam is likely to fail; and for fractured teeth. In other situations, its use is less clear cut, and caries risk factors, ...