This paper establishes several approaches of assessing whether the use of different fare payment options affect passenger travel behaviour. The analysis compares the behavioural traits of season ticket (Travelcard) holders against those who travel on a Pay As You Go (PAYG) basis, on the London Underground over a fourmonth period. The regularity of passenger journeys is considered through the ex...

Eva M. Albert, Miguel A. Fortuna, Jos e A. Godoy and Jordi Bascompte Abstract Habitat transformation is one of the leading drivers of biodiversity loss. The ecological effects of this transformation have mainly been addressed at the demographic level, for example, finding extinction thresholds. However, interpopulation genetic variability and the subsequent potential for adaptation can be erode...

The goal of the “Emotion in Music” task in MediaEval 2015 is to automatically estimate the emotions expressed by music (in terms of Arousal and Valence) in a time-continuous fashion. In this paper, considering the high context correlation among the music feature sequence, we study several multiscale approaches at different levels, including acoustic feature learning with Deep Brief Networks (DB...

Several other methods of achieving dynamic range control were also discussed in the previous chapter. These methods are typically unsharp mask filters with large kernel sizes, and multi-scale approaches such as multi scale image contrast amplification (MUSICA) developed by the Agfa-Gevaert company (Vuylsteke & Schoeters, 1999). In achieving their goal of dynamic range control, these methods alt...

diagnosing and assessing child abuse is a critical and difficult process in clinical psychology, because this phenomenon has several negative behavioral and psychological consequences on victims. the aim of this research is to create a scale for assessing child abuse and neglect. through a multiclustral sampling, 3042 secondary school students (boys and girls) were selected to fill (1) a list o...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Microvascular blood flow is essential for healing and predicts surgical outcome. The aim of the current study was to investigate the relation between fluxes measured with the laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) technique and changes in absolute blood flow. In addition, we studied the reproducibility of the LSCI technique when assessing the intra-abdominal microcirculation of t...

and methodological developments by recognizing the importance of micro-, meso-, macro-, and cross-scale approaches. The term landscape ecology was coined in 1939 by the German geographer Carl Troll, who was inspired by the spatial patterning of landscapes revealed in aerial photographs and the ecosystem concept developed in 1935 by the British ecologist Arthur Tansley. Troll originally defi ned...

financial companies are constantly exposed to the dangers of risk. in the last few years for various reasons, measuring value at risk (var) has become increasingly important for financial firms. the study of multiple measures of risk, var measure with a new approach provides the ground for calculation of market risk. common approaches to risk measurement due to complicated, nonlinear and changi...

Diagnosing and assessing child abuse is a critical and difficult process in clinical psychology, because this phenomenon has several negative behavioral and psychological consequences on victims. The aim of this research is to create a scale for assessing child abuse and neglect. Through a multiclustral sampling, 3042 secondary school students (boys and girls) were selected to fill (1) a li...