Visuo-spatial integration is indeed one of the cognitive domains in which humans have clearly undergone evolutionary development (Wynn, 1989, 2010). Our ability to conceive of and organize our actions in space is arguably unmatched among primates. And as Bruner & Lozano explicate, this spatial cognition relies on our ability to generate an " inner virtual space " using neural resources of the I...

Branch-and-cut methods are exact algorithms for integer programming problems. They consist of a combination of a cutting plane method with a branch-and-bound algorithm. These methods work by solving a sequence of linear programming relaxations of the integer programming problem. Cutting plane methods improve the relaxation of the problem to more closely approximate the integer programming probl...

Robustness in farm animals was defined by Knap as 'the ability to combine a high production potential with resilience to stressors, allowing for unproblematic expression of a high production potential in a wide variety of environmental conditions'. The importance of robustness-related traits in breeding objectives is progressively increasing towards the production of animals with a high product...

Experimental archaeology has long yielded valuable insights into the tools and techniques that featured in past peoples’ relationship with the material world around them. We can determine, for example, how many trees would need to be felled to construct a large round-house of the southern British Iron Age (over one hundred), infer the exact angle needed to strike a flint core in order to knap a...

V letech 1939 aĹž 1943 patřily cesty do nacistickĂŠho Německa a na jĂ­m okupovanĂĄ ĂşzemĂ­ (Francie, Belgie, Holandsko, Polsko, velkĂĄ část SovětskĂŠho svazu) mezi dĹŻleĹžitĂŠ nĂĄstroje ovlivňovĂĄnĂ­ veřejnĂŠho mĂ­něnĂ­ v takzvanĂŠm ProtektorĂĄtu Čechy Morava. Studie se zaměřuje cestu českĂ˝ch intelektuĂĄlĹŻ – umělcĹŻ, kulturnĂ­ch pracovnĂ­kĹŻ novinářů Holandska září...

WHERE WE ARE IN MODELING MECHANICAL, TRAFFIC, AND SOCIO-ECONOMICAL DISCRETE SYSTEMS Discrete systems have been firstly introduced in physics (Fisher and Wiodm, 1969; Noor and Nemeth, 1980; Adhikari et al., 1996; Kornyak, 2009) to simulate materials at the microand nano-scales where a continuum description of matter breaks down. The constituents can be atoms or molecules and their interactions a...

Phytoplankton photosynthesis under the rapidly fluctuating irradiance which results from turbulent mixing through the vertical light gradient is poorly understood. Ship-based measurements often apply the fast repetition rate fluorescence (FRRF) technique in situ or in vivo to gauge the physiological state of the phytoplankton community and infer some of the physical properties of the water colu...

As part of LOD2 project and OpenData.cz initiative, we are developing an ODCleanStore framework enabling management of Linked Data. In this paper, we focus on the query-time data fusion in ODCleanStore, which provides data consumers with integrated views on Linked Data; the fused data (1) has solved conflicts according to the preferred conflict resolution policies and (2) is accompanied with pr...

In 2019, editorial the journal's previous Editor-in-Chief, late Professor Simon Leather, announced my appointment as a new Senior Editor responsible for farm animal health and welfare, subject area that had not featured significantly in Annals of Applied Biology many years (Leather, 2019). Despite this hiatus publishing applied livestock research journal, look into archives demonstrates animals...