Changes in climate and land use can impact natural systems across all levels of ecological organization. Most documented and anticipated effects consider species’ properties, including phenologies, geographic distributions, and abundances. Responses of higher-level aggregate community or ecosystem properties have not been considered as they are assumed to be relatively stable due to compensator...

Computational models of the natural hip joint are needed to examine and optimise tissue sparing interventions where the natural cartilage remains part of the bearing surfaces. Although the importance of interstitial fluid pressurisation in the performance of cartilage has long been recognized, few studies have investigated the time dependent interstitial fluid pressurisation in a three dimensio...

In this paper we develop a simple micromechanical model of a prestressed polycrystalline aggregate, in which the texture-induced and stress-induced anisotropies of the aggregate are precisely de ned; here the word \texture" always refers to the texture of the aggregate at the given prestressed con guration, not to that of a perhaps ctitious natural state of the aggregate. We use this model to d...

The problem of how to rationally aggregate probability measures occurs in particular (i) when a group of agents, each holding probabilistic beliefs, needs to rationalise a collective decision on the basis of a single ‘aggregate belief system’ and (ii) when an individual whose belief system is compatible with several (possibly infinitely many) probability measures wishes to evaluate her options ...

Keyword search over relational databases has gained popularity due to its ease of use. Current research has focused on the efficient computation of results from multiple tuples, and largely ignores queries to retrieve statistical information from databases. The work in [5] developed a system that allows aggregate functions to be expressed using simple keywords. However, this system may return i...

Linking human motion and natural language is of great interest for the generation of semantic representations of human activities as well as for the generation of robot activities based on natural language input. However, although there have been years of research in this area, no standardized and openly available data set exists to support the development and evaluation of such systems. We, th...

In the present study, lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) coated with iron oxide was investigated as a low cost sorbent to remove  from wastewater. Iron oxide coated LECA (IOCL) as a new sorbent was tested for its efficiency as  sorbent using operational parameters such as contact time, the initial pH of the solutions, and sorbent dosage concentration in batch systems. The adsorption cha...

the purpose of this research was to evaluate the application of recycled aggregates of constructiondebris such as concrete, cement block and rubbles from pars-kangan site in asphalt concrete mix design. toevaluate the performance of aggregates different mix designs with recycled aggregate percentages of 0, 10,30, 50 and bitumen percentages of 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, and 6.5 were provided and two mar...

Generating human motion that appears natural is a long standing problem in character animation. Researchers have explored many different approaches including physics-based simulation, optimization, and data-driven methods such as motion graphs and motion interpolation. One major difficulty in applying most of these approaches is the lack of an implementable definition of what it means for motio...