Coral bleaching and subsequent mortality represent a major threat to the future health and productivity of coral reefs. However a lack of reliable data on occurrence, severity and other characteristics of bleaching events hampers research on the causes and consequences of this important...

Information on reproduction in reef corals is presented. An understanding of its reproductive behaviour is an important factor in helping to preserve the coral reef ecosystems.

A “universal” fitting function has been recognized that makes use of the eigen-coordinates method (Physica A 285 (2000) 547) to accurately describe the distribution of ordered amplitudes within random sequences (taken from a diversity of sources). It is shown that sequences with a discrete...

The mathematical expression of nonadditivity X(1 ∪ 2)=X(1) + X(2) + αX(1)X(2) has been frequently used for the development of statistical physics for nonadditive system, where X is entropy or energy, and α is hoped to be a parameter characterising the nonadditive property of the composite...

Even simple examples of finite mixture models can fail to fulfil the regularity conditions that are routinely assumed in standard parametric inference problems. Many methods have been investigated for testing for homogeneity in finite mixture models, for example, but all rely on regularity...

The Kadometsev-Petviashvili (KP) and modified KP (mKP) equations are retrieved from the first two soliton equations of coupled Korteweg-de Vries (cKdV) hierarchy. Based on the nonlinearization of Lax pairs, the KP and mKP equations are ultimately reduced to integrable finite-dimensional...

The development of industrial ecology has led company managers to increasingly consider their company's niche in the regional system, and to develop optimization plans. We used emergy-based, ecological-economic synthesis to evaluate two optimization plans for the Jiufa Combined Heat and Power...