The paper addresses the issues of managing sustainable regional development in context dynamic socio-economic processes. authors analyzed causes and prerequisites for its main directions. Based on analysis, examines state management economy modern conditions. study identifies objectives crucial strategic management: 1. Forming competitive advantages. This objective is basis further development,...

Medical image registration plays an important role in clinical diagnosis and therapy planning. This paper proposes an automatic method to register computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) brain images by using first principal directions of feature images. In this method, principal component analysis (PCA) neural network is used to calculate the first principal directions from featur...

Some experimental results measuring P-wave phase velocity and seismic attenuation in laboratory under dry and water-saturated conditions at ultrasonic frequencies and atmospheric pressure on sandstone samples of the Milk River Formation in the Writingon-Stone Provincial Park (WOSPP), southern Alberta, are presented and are correlated with petrophysical data obtained from these samples as clay c...