Fractal geometry provides a powerful tool for scale-free spatial analysis of cities, but the fractal dimension calculation results always depend on methods and scopes of study area. This phenomenon has been puzzling many researchers. This paper is devoted to discussing the problem of uncertainty of fractal dimension estimation and the potential solutions to it. Using regular fractals as archety...

Three-dimensional fractal models on grids of ∼ 200 pixels are generated from the inverse Fourier transform of noise with a power law cutoff, exponentiated to give a log normal distribution of density. The fractals are clipped at various intensity levels and the mass and size distribution functions of the clipped peaks and their subpeaks are determined. These distribution functions are analogous...

BACKGROUND Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) has been identified as a major public and military health concern both in the United States and worldwide. Characterizing the effects of mTBI on postural sway could be an important tool for assessing recovery from the injury. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We assess postural sway by motion of the center of pressure (COP). Methods for data reductio...

GIS is considered an important technique as well as a prerequisite for cost effective mineral exploration and determination of high potential areas. The purpose of this research is to determine high potential iron zones for detailed exploration using index overlay GIS method. Index Overlay was used to combine the geology, topography (scale: 1:1,000), lineaments, remote sensing (ASTER and ETM+) ...

introduction nowadays, many studies were performed about noise source and its type and effects related to duration of sound emission. most of these researches just report sound pressure level in frequency or time domain. these researches should be continued in order to find better absorber material in noise pollution. use of fractal geometry is a new method in this filed. wave fractal dimension...

In this paper a new hardware method for fast and low power fractal coding is presented. The introduced method is based on binary classification of domain and range blocks. The technique not only reduces power consumption and increases processing speed but also has minimal effect on the degradation of the output result compared to the available fractal techniques. In order to show the functional...