Marine ecosystems are difficult to sample quantitatively at increasing depth. Hence, few studies attempt to measure patterns of beta diversity for ecological communities in the deep sea. Here we (i) present and quantify ...

Spot-spraying weeds in pastures enables the use of herbicide that would be too harmful to pasture if boom-sprayed. However, some herbicides are more damaging than others. To quantify this damage, a range of spot-spraying ...

Biopesticides have a number of positive attributes compared with conventional pesticides but direct comparisons are difficult to achieve objectively. Therefore, an indexing method was developed and used to compare the ...

In this paper, we have presented a novel transmission protocol which is suited for battery-powered sensors that are worn by a patient when under medical treatment, and allow constant monitoring of health indices. These ...

In this paper, the performance of hybrid optical code division multiple access/wavelength division multiplexing (OCDMA/WDM) system is evaluated for gigabit passive optical network (GPON). We have investigated, compared and ...

Identification of costs drivers and their influence levels on building development costs plays a key role in the development of construction models and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of any project. Forty-five ...

—Energy Harvesting Technologies for wireless electronics networks have undergone a tremendous development in the recent past. Several micro level energy generating units have been developed to convert variety of renewable ...