Identifying novel topological properties of quantum states matter, such as exemplified by the quantized Hall conductance, is a valuable step towards realizing materials with attractive attributes that guarantee their imperviousness to realistic imperfections, disorder and environmental disturbances. Is gravitational coupling coefficient matter promising candidate? Substantially building on well...

abstract for evaluating nacl salinity effect on some physiological and qualitative attributes of five winter canola cultivars, an experiment was conducted in a rcd base factorial in three replicates in greenhouse of east azarbaijan agricultural research center in 2008. five salinity levels as 0, 50, 100, 150 and 200 mm nacl treated as first factor on five rape seed (fornax, licord, elite, slm04...

The present study aimed to characterize the effect of a nearby distractor on vertical, horizontal, and oblique saccade curvature under normal saccade preparation times. Consistent with previous findings, longer-latency vertical saccades showed greater curvature away from a distractor than did oblique or horizontal saccades. At short latencies, vertical saccades also showed greater curvature tow...

In Geomorphology the landforms delineation and delimitation are based on traditional techniques which is usually achieved by two different approaches: semantic and geometric. The semantic approach involves interpreting aerial photographs as well as using field knowledge to map the possible landforms extent. The geometric approach involves inferring the probability of extension on related proper...

Attneave (1954 Psychological Review 61 183-193) demonstrated that a line drawing of a sleeping cat can still be identified when the smoothly curved contours are replaced by straight-line segments connecting the positive maxima and negative minima of contour curvature. Using the set of line drawings by Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 6...

Earth's surface archives the combined history of tectonics and erosion, which tend to roughen landscapes, and sediment transport and deposition, which smooth them. We analyzed hillslope morphology in the tectonically active Dragon's Back Pressure Ridge in California, United States, to assess whether tectonic uplift history can be reconstructed using measurable attributes of hillslope features w...

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is often utilised in point cloud processing as provides an efficient method to approximate local point properties through the examination of the local neighbourhoods. This process does sometimes suffer from the assumption that the neighbourhood contains only a single surface, when it may contain multiple discrete surface entities, as well as relating the prope...

Massive determination of complete genome sequences has led to the development of different tools for genome comparisons. Our approach is to compare genomes according to typical genomic distributions of a mathematical function that reflects a certain biological function. In this study we used comprehensive genome analysis of DNA curvature distributions in coding and non-coding regions of prokary...