ABSTRACT There are various useful metrics for finding the distance between two points in Euclidean space. Metrics for finding the distance between two rigid body locations in Euclidean space depend on both the coordinate frame and units used. A metric independent of these choices is desirable. This paper presents a metric for a finite set of rigid body displacements. The methodology uses the pr...

Building information systems collect building related sensor data. This data is processed and distributed to various users. The present contribution discusses the application of web technologies in building information systems and aims to give an overview of interesting applications and current research and development fields. The analysis is conducted using the example of the Monitoring System...

This paper introduces an online density reduction algorithm for non-homogenous multidimensional datasets. This work is motivated by applications in terrain modeling using laser data. Unlike most existing density reduction algorithms, the developed algorithm is designed for sequentially provided data and online implementation. Experimental results are presented for a 3D points cloud with 3 milli...

Ageing of publications, percentage of self-citations, and impact vary from journal to journal within fields of science. The assumption that citation and publication practices are homogenous within specialties and fields of science is invalid. Furthermore, the delineation of fields and among specialties is fuzzy. Institutional units of analysis and persons may move between fields or span differe...

Interpretations of local field potentials (LFPs) are typically shaped on an assumption that the brain is a homogenous conductive milieu. However, microscale inhomogeneities including cell bodies, dendritic structures, axonal fiber bundles and blood vessels are unequivocally present and have different conductivities and permittivities than brain extracellular fluid. To determine the extent to wh...

Let $G$ be a locally compact group, $H$ be a compact subgroup of $G$ and $varpi$ be a representation of the homogeneous space $G/H$ on a Hilbert space $mathcal H$. For $psi in L^p(G/H), 1leq p leqinfty$, and an admissible wavelet $zeta$ for $varpi$, we define the localization operator $L_{psi,zeta} $ on $mathcal H$ and we show that it is a bounded operator. Moreover, we prove that the localizat...

BACKGROUND Focus groups are commonly used to explore participants' experiences in health and social care research. Although it is suggested that having demographically homogenous groups may help put participants at ease, the evidence is sparse.The aims of the paper are to: explore the impact of relative ethnic homogeneity and heterogeneity of focus group participants on the group discussions; i...

A social group can only be spatially coherent if its members synchronize activities such as foraging and resting. However, activity synchronization is costly to individuals if it requires them to postpone an activity that would be personally more profitable in order to do what the rest of the group is doing. Such costs will be particularly high in groups whose members belong to different age, s...