The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) provides a regularly updated, global database that currently contains over 868,000 scientific names and their hierarchy. program exists to communicate comprehensive taxonomy of species across 7 kingdoms enables biodiversity information be discovered, indexed, connected all human endeavors. ITIS partners with taxonomists experts the world assemb...

Abstract Redundancy needs more precise characterization as it is a major factor in the evolution and robustness of networks multivariate interactions. We investigate complexity such interactions by inferring connection transitivity that includes all possible measures path length for weighted graphs. The result, without breaking graph into smaller components, distance backbone subgraph sufficien...

Scattering from man-made objects in SAR imagery exhibits aspect and frequency dependencies which are not well modeled by standard SAR imaging techniques. If ignored, these deviations will reduce recognition performance due to the model mismatch, but when appropriately accounted for, these deviations from the ideal point scattering model can be exploited as attributes to better distinguish scatt...