Evolutionary biology is undergirded by an extensive and impressive set of mathematical models. Yet only one result, Fisher's theorem about selection and fitness, is generally accorded the status of a fundamental theorem. I argue that although its fundamental status is justified by its simplicity and scope, there are additional results that seem similarly fundamental. I suggest that the most fun...

This document contains the review of key papers in the field of handand signature-based personal authentication systems. Keyword List : State of the art, key paper, signature modality, hand modality Project co-funded by the European Commission within the sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006) Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission ...

This document presents the update on the analysis and evaluation of alternative solutions for biometric modalities including speech modality. Keyword List : Joint research, advanced solutions, speech modality Project co-funded by the European Commission within the sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006) Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the C...

How does a network of documents grow without centralized control? This question is becoming crucial as we try to explain the emergent scale-free topology of the World Wide Web and use link analysis to identify important information resources. Existing models of growing information networks have focused on the structure of links but neglected the content of nodes. Here I show that the current mo...

We extend the time dependent bias model of Tegmark & Peebles (1998) to predict the large-scale evolution of the stochastic linear bias of different galaxy populations with respect to both the dark matter and each other. The resulting model equations contain a general expression, coined the “interaction term”, accounting for the destruction or production of galaxies. This term may be used to mod...

A review of the chemistry of polyhedral cluster complexes in which s-, p-, dand f-block metals are incorporated mainly into Ccage-trimethylsilyl-substituted C2B4 carborane cages is presented. While the main thrust of this review is on the results obtained in authors’ laboratories, comparisons are made to similar systems and to those involving both largeand small-cage carboranes. In this way we ...

this article tries to explain the background and the logic of army forces creation in irgc considering irgc's fundamental purposes and its institutional evolution during the war. these forces' function during the last years of the war is discussed briefly at the end of the essay.

We measure the evolution of the rest-frame K-band Fundamental Plane from z = 1 to the present by using IRAC imaging of a sample of early-type galaxies in the Chandra Deep Field-South at z ∼ 1 with accurately measured dynamical masses. We find that M/LK evolves as ∆ ln (M/LK) = (−1.18± 0.10)z, which is slower than in the B-band (∆ ln (M/LB) = (−1.46 ± 0.09)z). In the B-band the evolution has bee...

Text summarization endeavors to produce a summary version of a text, while maintaining the original ideas. The textual content on the web, in particular, is growing at an exponential rate. The ability to decipher through such massive amount of data, in order to extract the useful information, is a major undertaking and requires an automatic mechanism to aid with the extant repository of informa...