The ability to learn to criterion a visually-guided stylus maze was found impaired in patients with right posterior cerebral damage, not only in comparison with controls but also with other hemisphere-damaged groups. The contribution of the corresponding left sided area to this task is dubious, and certainly not substantial. This finding points to the independent organisation of long-term spati...

In this study a recently developed neuroevolution method, HyperNEAT, is applied to new tasks in order to learn more about its characteristics in general and for the tasks specifically. The tasks required directly processing raw image data, including some from a robot-mounted camera, requiring the neural networks to directly process hundreds or thousands of inputs. The tasks included object reco...

In this study spatial analysis tools are presented which allow the simulation and prediction of flash floods in semiarid basins to be carried out. Different applications are analysed of the Shyska operational system in real basins, developed with functions embedded in a Geographical Information System (GIS), which combines information from latest generation data acquisition technologies in real...

For the effective use of a araphic information processina system, information-integration capabilities are impohant. ~ e r < the information-intearation is defined as an interactive execution of simulationtasks and a database management task. This concept as well as its practical methods are explained in this paper by the introduction of a geographical information system (GIs). The GIs consists...

Abstract Patterns of state formation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that “fractured land” was responsible China’s tendency toward political unification and Europe’s protracted polycentrism. We build a dynamic model with granular geographical information in terms topographical features the location productive agricultural land to qu...

This article describes a standardised way to build context-aware global smart space applications using information that is distributed across independent (legacy, sensor-enabled, and embedded) systems by exploiting the overlapping spatial and temporal attributes of the information maintained by these systems. The framework supports a spatial programming model based on a topographical approach t...

We have explored the collaborative network of the current American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) membership using bibliometric methods. The analysis shows that 4249 members are connected in a single, large, co-authorship graph, including the majority of the most published authors in the field of mass spectrometry. The map reveals topographical differences between university groups and na...