The ecological mechanisms hypothesized to structure species-rich communities range from strict local determinism to neutral ecological drift. We assessed the degree of ecological determinism in tropical plant community structure by analyses of published demographic data; a broad range of spatial, historical, and environmental variables; and the distributions of 33 herbaceous species (plot size ...

The concept of sectorization of the transformed images for CBIR is an innovative idea. This paper introduces the concept of Wavelet generation for Discrete sine transform (DST).The sectorization of the DST transformed images and the DST wavelet transforms has been done into various sector sizes i.e.4,8,12, and 16. The transformation of the images is tried and tested threefold i.e. row wise tran...

factorial and split-plot designs are two statistical procedures used to conduct agricultural field experiments. both designs are used frequently to quantify the main and interaction effects of two or more factors. however, split-plot design is recommended for specific situations depending on major and minor goals of the study, characteristics of the factors, and precision of statistical testing...

Safe, robust operation of an autonomous vehicle in cross-country environments relies on sensing of the surroundings. Thanks to the reduced cost of vision hardware, and increasing computational power, computer vision has become an attractive alternative for this task. This paper concentrates on the use of stereo vision for obstacles detection in cross-country environments where the ground surfac...