Search results for " Projection"

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Sex in an uncertain world: environmental stochasticity helps restore competitive balance between sexually and asexually reproducing populations

2014

Like many organisms, individuals of the freshwater ostracod species Eucypris virens exhibit either obligate sexual or asexual reproductive modes. Both types of individual routinely co-occur, including in the same temporary freshwater pond (their natural habitat in which they undergo seasonal diapause). Given the well-known two-fold cost of sex, this begs the question of how sexually reproducing individuals are able to coexist with their asexual counterparts in spite of such overwhelming costs. Environmental stochasticity in the form of 'false dawn' inundations (where the first hydration is ephemeral and causes loss of early hatching individuals) may provide an advantage to the sexual subpop…

Balance (metaphysics)Stochastic ProcessesObligateEcologyClimatePopulation DynamicsParthenogenesisEnvironmentBiologyDiapauseModels BiologicalSpecies SpecificityHabitatSpainCrustaceaReproduction AsexualSpiteAnimalsPopulation growthSexMatrix projectionEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsJournal of Evolutionary Biology
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Verso una dimensione narrativa delle mappe

2021

Tra il pensiero e la costruzione dell’architettura il disegno ha un ruolo baricentrico per connettere i diversi protagonisti di una realizzazione e per coinvolgere la collettività facendo percepire inedite prospettive. La scrittura si rivela utile per esplicitare ciò che nella grafica è sotteso e per stabilire un ordine nuovo nel ragionamento progettuale. I rapporti fra segni e significati si moltiplicano nei sistemi informativi recenti in cui si ha la sensazione di poter dire moltissimo (dati numerici e spaziali) ma a volte sfugge quella sintesi indispensabile per una interpretazione concreta, finalizzata alla costruzione di possibili esperienze fisiche. Per l’esplorazione dell’uso di dive…

Between the idea and the construction of the architecture the drawing plays a central role to connect the different protagonists of a project. It involves the community by envisaging unprecedented perspectives. Writing is useful to explicit the graphics and establish a new order in the design reasoning. The relationships between signs and meanings multiply in recent information systems in which it seems possible to conclude a lot (thanks to numerical and spatial data) but sometimes a synthesis is missing though that synthesis is fundamental to create new physical experiences. For the exploration of the use of different architectural languages and for the push towards the project rather than a sterile cataloging the case of the Piano Programma for the historic center of Palermo (Giuseppe Samonà Giancarlo De Carlo Umberto Di Cristina Anna Maria Sciarra Borzí 1979-82) reveals to be ambitious. Giuseppe Samonà integrates the classical representation based on Monge's projections with photographs and iconic drawings associating signs with a linguistic-structural communication capable of expressing the relationships between the parts at the basis of a morphological approach to the plan. The graphic story ("second language") of the urban fabric has creative implications expressed by images and annotations ("first language") useful for decoding them. Since the plan focuses on the potential of a storytelling that orients the imagination of its readers (designers citizens politicians) it can contribute to the study titled "B4R– BRANDING 4 RESILIENCE - Tourist infrastructure as a tool to enhance small villages by drawing resilient communities and new open habitats” as a starting point for the mapping in which GIS analysis and multidisciplinary data (geometric topological and quantitative) relating to some villages of the internal Sicily shall translate into a new architectural urban and landscape quality.Settore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E Urbana
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Deconvolution by Regularized Matching Pursuit

2014

In this chapter, an efficient method that restores signals from strongly noised blurred discrete data is presented. The method can be characterized as a Regularized Matching Pursuit (RMP), where dictionaries consist of spline wavelet packets. It combines ideas from spline theory, wavelet analysis and greedy algorithms. The main distinction from the conventional matching pursuit is that different dictionaries are used to test the data and to approximate the solution. In addition, oblique projections of data onto dictionary elements are used instead of orthogonal projections, which are used in the conventional Matching Pursuit (MP). The slopes of the projections and the stopping rule for the …

Blind deconvolutionSpline (mathematics)WaveletComputer scienceSpline waveletOblique projectionDeconvolutionGreedy algorithmMatching pursuitAlgorithm
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Demographic Analysis of Bucharest-Ilfov Region

2013

Abstract This paper aims to achieve a study was to research, analyze and interpret statistical data, in conjunction with theoretical aspects that allowed assessment of regional information on population structure in the Bucharest-Ilfov. Bucharest-Ilfov region's population (2,264,865 inhabitants in 2012) is distributed inversely proportional to the size of two administrative entities (Bucharest - the capital of Romania - Ilfov county). Bucharest is the largest urban agglomeration in Romania, its population being 1,924,299 inhabitants, representing about 85% population of the region, more than 16.4% of the urban population of the country, or around 9% of the total population of Romania and ha…

Bucharest-Ilfov regioneducation.field_of_studyUrban agglomerationdemographic studyPopulation structurePopulationGeneral EngineeringDemographic studypopulationEnergy Engineering and Power TechnologyTotal populationDemographic analysisGeographyCapital (economics)educationSocioeconomicsdemographic projection.Procedia Economics and Finance
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Erratum to “Time trends and short term projections of cancer prevalence in France” [Cancer Epidemiol. 56 (2018) 97–105]

2018

IF 2.888 (2017); International audience

Cancer ResearchEpidemiologyTime trendsbusiness.industryPublished ErratumMEDLINECancerTime trends[SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancermedicine.diseaseShort-term projectionsTerm (time)Projection scenariosOncologyPrevalenceMedicineFlexible modelsbusinessCancer prevalenceDemographyCancer Epidemiology
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Artificial neural network for quantitative determination of total protein in yogurt by infrared spectrometry

2009

Abstract A method has been introduced for quantitative determination of protein content in yogurt samples based on the characteristic absorbance of protein in 1800–1500 cm− 1 spectral region by mid-FTIR spectroscopy and chemometrics. Successive Projection Algorithm (SPA) wavelength selection procedure, coupled with feed forward Back-Propagation Artificial Neural Network (BP-ANN) model was the benefited chemometric technique. Relative Error of Prediction (REP) in BP-ANN and SPA-BP-ANN methods for training set was 7.25 and 3.70 respectively. Considering the complexity of the sample, the ANN model was found to be reliable, while the proposed method is rapid and simple, without any sample prepa…

ChemometricsAbsorbanceChromatographyArtificial neural networkChemistryApproximation errorSample preparationBiological systemQuantitative analysis (chemistry)SpectroscopyBackpropagationDykstra's projection algorithmAnalytical ChemistryMicrochemical Journal
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A critical assessment of methods for the determination of the shear stress amplitude in multiaxial fatigue criteria belonging to critical plane class

2015

Abstract Multiaxial high cycle fatigue criteria based on the critical plane approach necessitate unambiguous definitions of the amplitude and mean value of the shear stress (τa and τm) acting on the material planes. Four of the existing definitions relate the values of τa and τm to a geometrical element of the curve described by the tip of the shear stress vector (curve Ψ), respectively, the radius of the Minimum Circumscribed Circle, the Longest Chord, the Longest Projection, the diagonal of the Maximum Rectangular Hull (MRH). In this paper a critical assessment of the above definitions is proposed, focusing on that based on the concept of MRH, which is the most recently developed. The mai…

Chord (geometry)Plane (geometry)business.industryMultiaxial fatigueMechanical EngineeringDiagonalMathematical analysisRadiusStructural engineeringIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringProjection (linear algebra)Critical planeSettore ING-IND/14 - Progettazione Meccanica E Costruzione Di MacchineAmplitudeMechanics of MaterialsModeling and SimulationShear stressMultiaxial fatigue shear stress amplitude critical plane circumscribed circle longest chord maximum projection rectangular hullGeneral Materials ScienceCircumscribed circleRectangular hullCircumscribed circlebusinessShear stress amplitudeMathematicsInternational Journal of Fatigue
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The on-line curvilinear component analysis (onCCA) for real-time data reduction

2015

Real time pattern recognition applications often deal with high dimensional data, which require a data reduction step which is only performed offline. However, this loses the possibility of adaption to a changing environment. This is also true for other applications different from pattern recognition, like data visualization for input inspection. Only linear projections, like the principal component analysis, can work in real time by using iterative algorithms while all known nonlinear techniques cannot be implemented in such a way and actually always work on the whole database at each epoch. Among these nonlinear tools, the Curvilinear Component Analysis (CCA), which is a non-convex techni…

Clustering high-dimensional dataBregman divergenceComputer scienceneural networkprojectionBregman divergenceNovelty detectionSynthetic dataData visualizationArtificial Intelligencebranch and boundComputer visionunfoldingcurvilinear component analysisCurvilinear coordinatesArtificial neural networkbusiness.industryVector quantizationPattern recognitiononline algorithmbearing faultvector quantizationPattern recognition (psychology)Principal component analysisbearing fault; branch and bound; Bregman divergence; curvilinear component analysis; data reduction; neural network; novelty detection; online algorithm; projection; unfolding; vector quantization; Software; Artificial Intelligencedata reductionArtificial intelligencebusinessnovelty detectionSoftware
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Making nonlinear manifold learning models interpretable: The manifold grand tour

2015

Smooth nonlinear topographic maps of the data distribution to guide a Grand Tour visualisation.Prioritisation of data linear views that are most consistent with data structure in the maps.Useful visualisations that cannot be obtained by other more classical approaches. Dimensionality reduction is required to produce visualisations of high dimensional data. In this framework, one of the most straightforward approaches to visualising high dimensional data is based on reducing complexity and applying linear projections while tumbling the projection axes in a defined sequence which generates a Grand Tour of the data. We propose using smooth nonlinear topographic maps of the data distribution to…

Clustering high-dimensional dataQA75Nonlinear dimensionality reductionDiscriminative clusteringComputer scienceVisualització de la informaciócomputer.software_genreData visualizationProjection (mathematics)Information visualizationArtificial IntelligenceQA:Informàtica::Infografia [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]business.industryData visualizationDimensionality reductionGrand tourGeneral EngineeringNonlinear dimensionality reductionTopographic mapData structureComputer Science ApplicationsVisualizationManifold learningData miningbusinesscomputerGenerative topographic mappingLinear projections
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In Defense of Position Uncertainty

2015

The authors comments on the article "Orthographic coding in illiterates," by J. A. Dunabeitia, et al. There is a high degree of flexibility in letter-position coding during visual word recognition and reading. This phenomenon is explained based on the presence of perceptual noise in the information used for locating the positions of objects, namely, letters, across space.

Cognitive scienceVisual word recognitionPerceptionmedia_common.quotation_subjectPhenomenonOrthographic projectionPsychologyGeneral PsychologyLinguisticsmedia_commonCoding (social sciences)Psychological Science
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