organismal, ecological and evolutionary levels continue to develop rapidly. Increasingly, biologists need to confront organised complexity, of which living systems are the paramount example. Both spontaneous emergence of order and the maintenance of stability in complex systems in the face of highly variable environments need to be researched further. Complex structures are generated and mainta...

While making location decisions, the distribution of distances (outcomes) among the service recipients (clients) is an important issue. In order to comply with the minimization of distances as well as with an equal consideration of the clients, mean-equity approaches are commonly used. They quantify the problem in a lucid form of two criteria: the mean outcome representing the overall efficienc...

Five hundred millions of tweets are posted daily, making Twitter a major social media from which topical information on events can be extracted. Events are represented by time, location and entityrelated information. This paper focuses on location which is an important clue for both users and geo-spatial applications. We address the problem of predicting whether a tweet contains a location or n...

The health benefits of purple sweetpotato, which is used as an edible food in its natural 13 state and in processed foods and as a natural color pigment, have been recognized. In Japan, 14 sweetpotato has been economically produced in regions below 36°4′N latitude, however, cultivation 15 areas are beginning to expand further north. The anthocyanin and polyphenolics in purple 16 sweetpotatoes c...

Genes that are more closely spaced on the chromosome than expected by chance are said to be spatially clustered. Standard tests of clustering versus uniformity do not take into account two important features of genes—the high variability of gene length and the low probability that gene locations overlap (exclusion). We show by simulation that the standard null distributions which ignore length ...

     This research study deals with the processing and interpretation of the total Bouguer anomaly and the total count iso-radiation data for a region located in the western desert of Iraq. The research aims to delineate the approximate locations and the effective depth of faults and how does rocks radioactivity act nearby the faults. The graphical method adopted to separate the residual fields...

based on writing of tabari as well as other historical researches, mihr narseh, prime minister of bahram v (421-439 ad) founded a number of buildings in the province of ardashir khorrah. among public utility buildings, he built four fire temples in four villages in baryn plains of the same province. the current paper tries to find the exact locations of those temples based on references availab...

Crack identification is a very important issue in mechanical systems, because it is a damage that if develops may cause catastrophic failure. In the first part of this research, modal analysis of a multi-cracked variable cross-section beam is done using finite element method. Then, the obtained results are validated usingthe results of experimental modal analysis tests. In the next part, a nove...