the morphological river evolution at long-time (centuries and even millennia) and large spatial scale (watersheds of several square kilometres) can be described by means of simplified 1d models, able to simulate the variation of bed elevation and grain size composition at non-detailed scales, involving a reduced computational effort. the erosion and deposition phenomena acting along rivers can ...

background: topical anesthesia has been widely advocated as an important component of atraumatic administration of intraoral local anesthesia. the aim of this study was to use direct observation of children’s behavioral pain reactions during local anesthetic injection using cotton-roll vibration method compared with routine topical anesthesia. materials and methods: forty-eight children partici...

For fields that vary slowly on the scale of the lightest mass the logarithm of the vacuum functional can be expanded as a sum of local functionals. For Yang-Mills theory the leading term in the expansion dominates large distance effects and leads to an area law for the Wilson loop. However, this expansion cannot be expected to converge for fields that vary more rapidly. By studying the analytic...

We propose an extension of the PAS problem described in our previous work [6], which considers also constraints about the utilisation of operating rooms for patients that have to undergo a surgery. We design a solution approach based on local search, which explores the search space using complex neighbourhood operators.

It is not easy to imagine how the existing city can be converted to the principles of sustainability, however, the need for innovation, requires a pioneering phase which must address the main problems of rehabilitation of the operating models of the city. Today, however, there is a growing awareness that the identification and implementation of policies and measures to promote the adaptation, r...

Bushmeat management policies are often developed outside the communities in which they are to be implemented. These policies are also routinely designed to be applied uniformly across communities with little regard for variation in social or ecological conditions. We used fuzzy-logic cognitive mapping, a form of participatory modeling, to compare the assumptions driving externally generated bus...

We have developed a new framework for scale invariant texture analysis using multi-scale local autocorrelation features. The multiscale features are made of concatenated feature vectors of different scales, which are calculated from higher-order local autocorrelation functions. To classify different types of textures among the given test images, a linear discriminant classifier (LDA) is employe...