Information technology is increasingly used to support civil infrastructure systems that are large, complex heterogeneous, and distributed. These dynamic systems include communication systems, roads, bridges, traffic control facilities, and facilities for the distribution of water, gas and electricity. Mobile mapping is a new technology to capture georeferenced data. It is, however, still not p...

Collisions between birds and aircraft (bird strikes) are expensive, risk human lives, and increase bird mortality. Aircraft lighting has been proposed as a potential means of enhancing avian responses to aircraft. Determining the optimal changes to lighting to reduce bird strikes is a complicated problem because avian visual systems differ markedly from that of humans. Icteridae, including Brow...

The present paper studies fuzzy matroids in view of degree. First wegeneralize the notion of $(L,M)$-fuzzy independent structure byintroducing the degree of $M$-fuzzy family of independent $L$-fuzzysets with respect to a mapping from $L^X$ to $M$. Such kind ofdegrees is proved to satisfy some axioms similar to those satisfiedby $(L,M)$-fuzzy independent structure. ...

Identification of individual component from a natural mixture sample is having the utmost importance in the drug development industry. Generally, plant components or natural material on the earth use to present in a complex form and the individual components have been found to have specific beneficiary effect on specific disease. Such urgency to isolate the unit component or active ingredient i...

Separation-individuation is a developmental process through which individuals renegotiate self-other boundaries. Although this process is thought to be critically engaged in the first years of life, it is generally agreed that adolescence and young adulthood constitute a “second phase” wherein these issues are renegotiated in light of the developmental tasks common to this age period (Blos, 196...

This paper presents the graphical embeding of the rotational degree of freedom into the translational Configuration Space for planar assembly tasks. The resulting representation helps the visualization and understanding of motions in a simple and easy graphical way. The aim is the developing of motion planning algorithms in a two-dimensional parametrized space for planar assembly tasks (3 d.o.f...

Description The package contains functions for generating random clusters, generating random co-variance/correlation matrices,calculating a separation index (data and population version) for pairs of clusters or cluster distributions, and 1-D and 2-D projection plots to visualize clusters. The package also contains a function to generate random clusters based on factorial designs with factors s...

In this commentary on Anderson and Morzycki’s article ‘Degrees as kinds’, I raise some issues about the interchangeability of concrete (or Davidsonian) states (in the sense of Maienborn 2007) and tropes (particularized properties, according to Moltmann 2009), as well as the category of concrete states as such. I will also raise some issues for Anderson and Morzycki’s use of kinds of concrete st...