We study the entropy time evolution of a quantum mechanical model, which is frequently used as a prototype for Anderson's localization. Recently Latora and Baranger [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 520 (1999)] found that there exist three entropy regimes, a transient regime of passage from dynamics to thermodynamics, a linear-in-time regime of entropy increase, that is, a thermodynamic regime of Kolmogoro...

A thought experiment is proposed that reveals a difference between Fitts’ index of difficulty and Shannon’s entropy, in the quantification of the information content of a series of rapid aimed movements. This implies that the contemporary Shannon formulation of the index of difficulty is similar to, but not identical to, entropy. Preliminary work is reported toward developing a model that resol...

In a curved surface design, the overall shape features that emerge from combinations of shape elements are important. However, controlling the features of the overall shape in curved profiles is difficult using conventional microscopic shape information such as dimension. Herein two types of macroscopic shape information, curvature entropy and quadrature curvature entropy, quantitatively repres...

An image segmentation technique based on fuzzy entropy is applied for MR brain images to detect a brain tumor is presented in this paper. The proposed method performs image segmentation based on adaptive thresholding of the input MR images. The image is classified into two membership functions, whose member functions of the fuzzy region are Z-function and S-function. The optimal parameters of t...

We show that size-rank distributions with power-law decay (often only over a limited extent) observed in a vast number of instances in a widespread family of systems obey Tsallis statistics. The theoretical framework for these distributions is analogous to that of a nonlinear iterated map near a tangent bifurcation for which the Lyapunov exponent is negligible or vanishes. The relevant statisti...

JPEG encodes a still image through a lossy encoding followed by a lossless entropy encoding. The entropy coding in JPEG is a combination of the runlength coding and a variable-length coding. The entropy encoding employed in JPEG aims to exploit repetition of strings within a block but not across blocks. We propose application of Burrows-Wheeler transformation (BWT) to exploit repetition of stri...

By 'working with the willing', the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) has successfully facilitated industrial symbiosis throughout the UK and, in the process, delivered significant economic and environmental benefits for both Programme members and the country as a whole. One of the keys to NISP's success is that, unlike failed attempts to plan and construct eco-industrial systems fr...

We assemble the Irish industrial data currently available for years 1800–1921, period during which entire island was in a political union with Great Britain, and construct an annual index of output 1800–1913. also new price index. grew by average 1.3 per cent annum between 1800 outbreak First World War. Industrial growth slightly slower than previously thought, especially two decades immediatel...

In recent years, environmental pollution and massive consumption of resources in the traditional development model have posed significant challenges to environment society. this study, we discuss influencing factors high-quality development. High-quality is increasingly important exploring current state quality China. Using evaluation data major nodes China’s provincial administrative regions f...