BACKGROUND AND AIMS Lianas are expected to differ from trees in their growth strategies. As a result these two groups of woody species will have different spatial distributions: lianas are more common in high light environments. This study determines the differences in growth patterns, biomass allocation and leaf traits in five closely related liana and tree species of the genus Bauhinia. MET...

The reservoir of molecular gas (H$_{\rm 2}$) represents the fuel for star formation (SF) a galaxy. Connecting rate (SFR) to available H$_{\rm 2}$ is key accurately model SF in cosmological simulations galaxy formation. We investigate how modifying underlying modelling and description stellar feedback low-metallicity environments (LMF, i.e. feedback) cosmological, zoomed-in Milky Way-size halo i...

An interval type-2 fuzzy set (IT2FS) contains the infinite number of embedded membership functions (MFs) defined as type-1 sets. The center gravity (COG) an IT2FS is obtained by integrating centroids all these MFs. However, obtaining COG in a continuous domain impossible because MFs and, discrete domain, comes with exponential time complexity. Therefore, different algorithms were proposed to fi...

Unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly commonplace in aiding planning and management decisions agricultural horticultural crop production. The ability of UAV-based sensing technologies to provide high spatial (<1 m) temporal (on-demand) resolution data facilitates monitoring individual plants over time can essential information about health, yield, growth a timely quantif...

This paper describes a pilot study in building a Swedish multiword expression lexicon (SweMWELex) containing data collected from a corpus. Parts of the Swedish Treebank will be used for extracting the MWEs and the result will be stored in a publicity available XML framework which is called Lexical Markup Framework (LMF). The result gives a prototype lexicon which will be a good starting point t...

1 Work developed within the project " Numerical methods and software for differential equations ". Abstract: Among the methods for solving ODE-IVPs, the class of General Linear Methods (GLMs) is able to encompass most of them, ranging from Linear Multistep Formulae (LMF) to RK formulae. Moreover, it is possible to obtain methods able to overcome typical drawbacks of the previous classes of meth...

Despite of the importance of lexical resources for a number of NLP applications (Machine Translation, Information Extraction, Event Detection and Tracking, Question Answering, among others), there has been a traditional lack of generic tools for the creation, maintenance and management of computational lexica. The most direct obstacle for the development of such generic tools, that is, independ...

A quantitative and dynamic analysis of skeletal muscle structure and function can guide training protocols and optimize interventions for rehabilitation and disease. While technologies exist to measure body composition, techniques are still needed for quantitative, long-term functional imaging of muscle at the bedside. We evaluate whether diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging (DOSI) can be used...