Understanding biodiversity distribution is a primary goal of community ecology. At a landscape scale, bee communities are affected by habitat composition, anthropogenic land use, and fragmentation. However, little information is available on local-scale spatial distribution of bee communities within habitats that are uniform at the landscape scale. We studied a bee community along with floral a...

— We present a local convergence analysis for an improved Jarratt-type methods of order at least five to approximate a solution of a nonlinear equation in a Banach space setting. The convergence ball and error estimates are given using hypotheses up to the first Fréchet derivative in contrast to earlier studies using hypotheses up to the third Fréchet derivative. Numerical examples are also pro...

How biotic interactions, current and historical environment, and biogeographic barriers determine community structure is a fundamental question in ecology and evolution, especially in diverse tropical regions. To evaluate patterns of local and regional diversity, we quantified the phylogenetic composition of 189 hummingbird communities in Ecuador. We assessed how species and phylogenetic compos...

In this project the image is retrieved using Local Tetra Pattern (LTrP) for Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). It gives the path to retrieve the needed information based on the image content. The earlier version of CBIR was based on Local Binary Pattern, Local Derivative Pattern and Local Ternary Pattern. These methods extract information based on the distribution of edges which are coded us...

Hayakawa (1990) has very recently studied the behavior of the power for several large sample tests for the mean direction vector of the Langevin distribution. These tests are not known to possess any non-trivial optimal property. Here we derive some multiparameter locally optimal tests, e.g., best first and second directional derivative tests and locally most mean powerful tests. For the case w...

A new image indexing and retrieval algorithm known as local derivative pattern (LDP_16_2) is proposed in this work. LDP_16_2 histograms are used as features of each image in the data base. LDP_16_2 encodes the higher order derivative information which contains more detailed discriminative features. This property made it a powerful tool for feature extraction of images in the data base. Improved...