Two-dimensional potential flow of the ideal incompressible fluid with free surface and infinite depth can be described by a conformal map of the fluid domain into the complex lower half-plane. Stokes wave is the fully nonlinear gravity wave propagating with the constant velocity. The increase of the scaled wave height H/λ from the linear limit H/λ = 0 to the critical value Hmax/λ marks the tran...

To respond appropriately to objects, we must process visual inputs rapidly and assign them meaning. This involves highly dynamic, interactive neural processes through which information accumulates and cognitive operations are resolved across multiple time scales. However, there is currently no model of object recognition which provides an integrated account of how visual and semantic informatio...

The objective of this study was to determine the upper thermal limits of Arctic cod Boreogadus saida by measuring the response of maximum heart rate (f(Hmax)) to acute warming. One set of fish were tested in a field laboratory in Cambridge Bay (CB), Nunavut (north of the Arctic Circle), and a second set were tested after air transport to and 6 month temperature acclimation at the Vancouver Aqua...

Invasive plants can alter ecosystem properties, leading to changes in the ecosystem services on which humans depend. However, generalizing about these effects is difficult because invasive plants represent a wide range of life forms, and invaded ecosystems differ in their plant communities and abiotic conditions. We hypothesize that differences in traits between the invader and native species c...

27 The aim of this study was to determine how muscle activity and body orientation contribute to 28 the triceps surae spinal transmission modulation, when moving from a sitting to a standing 29 position. Maximal H-reflex (Hmax) and motor potential (Mmax) were evoked in the soleus 30 (SOL), medial and lateral gastrocnemius in 10 male subjects and in three conditions: passive 31 sitting, upright ...

Image classification is one of the most important topics in computer vision. It became crucial for large image datasets. In literature, several approaches are proposed. this context, Bag-of-Visual Words (BoVW) model has been widely used. The BoVW relies on building visual vocabulary and images represented as histograms words. However, recently, attention shifted to use complex architectures whi...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The interspecific allometry of maximum plant height (Hmax) with respect to maximum basal stem diameter (Dmax) has been studied for leptocaulis dicot and conifer tree species. In contrast, virtually nothing is known about the interspecific allometry of pachycaulis species. Here, the interspecific allometries for palms, cacti and cycads are reported and compared with those of ...