Groups of the Guatemalan black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) in a fragmented northern Guatemalan cloud forest in the Sierra Yalijux were analyzed for group composition and size using an ornithological census technique. Audio and visual records were combined to estimate each group’s home range size. The 361 observations in 2002 estimated 50 individuals in seven groups. Two home range classes we...

We consider a thermoelastic contact problem for several bodies under the conditions of unilateral mechanical through nonlinear Winkler surface layers and imperfect thermal contact. obtain weak formulation this in form system formed by variational equation inequality also an alternative linear equations. To solve equations thermomechanical problem, we develop parallel iterative Robin-type domain...

The security nowadays considered as significant topic specifically in design smart home. This paper is dedicated on an authentication problem door lock using string matching technique based password string.
 work contains two main parts, Android application (remote control) and control circuit Arduino UNO, plus the communication medium Bluetooth technology which used to send receive inform...

Our baseline approach from the 2012 year includes three language-independent methods for the task of answer validation. All methods are based on a scoring mechanism that reflects the degree of similarity between the question-answer pairs and the supporting text. We evaluate the proposed methods when using various string similarity metrics, such as exact matching, Levenshtein, Jaro and Jaro-Wink...

This paper shows that an integrable approximation of the spring pendulum, when tuned to be in 1 : 1 : 2 resonance, has monodromy. The stepwise precession angle of the swing plane of the resonant spring pendulum is shown to be a rotation number of the integrable approximation. Due to the monodromy, this rotation number is not a globally defined function of the integrals. In fact at lowest order ...

The facility layout problem is concerned with finding the most efficient arrangement of a given number of departments with unequal area requirements within a facility. The facility layout problem is a hard problem, and therefore, exact solution methods are only feasible for small or greatly restricted problems. In this paper, we propose a spring-embedding approach that unlike previous approache...

Dr. Constance E. Ruhl is an Epidemiologist at Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. Dr. Jeanne M. Clark is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Dr. James E. Everhart was Chief of the Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Branch in the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrit...

The spring-loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP), or monopedal hopper, is an archetypal model for running in numerous animal species. Although locomotion is generally considered a complex task requiring sophisticated control strategies to account for coordination and stability, we show that stable gaits can be found in the SLIP with both linear and "air" springs, controlled by a simple fixed-leg rese...