This is the first report on analysis of habitat complexity and heterogeneity of the Pantanal wetland. The Pantanal encompasses a peculiar mosaic of environments, being important to evaluate and monitor this area concerning conservation of biodiversity. Our objective was to indirectly measure the habitat complexity and heterogeneity of the mosaic forming the sub-regions of the Pantanal, by means...

edge detection and edge enhancement techniques play an essential role in interpreting potential field data. this paper describes the application of various edge detection techniques to gravity data in order to delineate the edges of subsurface structures. the edge detection methods comprise analytic signal, total horizontal derivative (thdr), theta angle, tilt angle, hyperbolic of tilt angle (h...

Communication signals travelling in space with different modulation types and different frequencies fall in a very wide band. Usually, it is required to identify and monitor these signals for many applications. Some of these applications are in civilian purposes such as signal confirmation, interference identification and spectrum management. this paper described the new original configuration ...

Distance measures between a reference signal and the autoregressive estimate are used as an objective reference for comparing autoregressive order-determining criteria. The distance measures discussed are the rms log spectral deviation, its normalized cepstral distance approximation, the normalized autoregressive transfer function error, the equivalent Itakura distance, and the average squared ...

In this paper, the weighted goal program is reformulated as a lexicographic goal program with two main goals. The first goal, which has the first priority, seeks to minimize the maximum weighted undesired normalized deviation. The second goal, having the second priority, minimizes the sum of the undesired normalized deviations. This approach provides a solution that is consistent with the weigh...

having knowledge about behavioral biases, investors are able to evaluate their decision process with more awareness and they can react much better when facing such biases, as a result decisions deviation will be minimized. in this study, 36 different behavioral biases have been categorized into 5 different groups to normalize the effective behavioral biases in the process of decision making of ...

Autonomous modal parameter estimations may involve sorting a large number of possible solutions to develop one consistent estimate of the modal parameters (frequency, damping, mode shape, and modal scaling). Once the final, consistent estimate of modal parameters is established, this estimate can be compared to related solutions from the larger set of solutions to develop statistical attributes...

In order to protect cryptographic devices against power analysis attacks, circuit level countermeasures can be used. Using dynamic current mode logic(DyCML) is an efficient countermeasure providing that the routing of dual-rail signals is balanced. In this paper, we have developed a new logic style based on DyCML, which provides side-channel security without the balanced routing requirement. Si...