to determine the potential habitat of two rangeland species of salsola rigidaand agropyron trichophorum in qasr-e-shirin, iran, geographic information systems(gis) and remote sensing (rs) techniques were used. at first, several maps (vegetationcover and land uses maps and thematic maps of various organizations) were collected orprepared. for digitizing geology, vegetation and conventional state...

Current autonomous driving technology heavily relies on a special sensor, Velodyne Sensor, and a detailed precision map. From Darpa Grand Challenge in 2005 to current Google Car, Velodyne Lidar sensors are used widely. They could provide 360 degree real-time 3D distance map by illuminating environment with lasers and analyzing the reflect light. The 3D distance map can be used in obstacle detec...

By handling whole sets of indistinguishable objects together, lifted belief propagation approaches have rendered large, previously intractable, probabilistic inference problems quickly solvable. In this paper, we show that Kumar and Zilberstein’s likelihood maximization (LM) approach to MAP inference is liftable, too, and actually provides additional structure for optimization. Specifically, it...

This paper surveys political science literature in search of a proper conceptualization of political representation. The first section of the paper reviews most influential normative and theoretical understandings of political representation. The section concludes with a summary of general attributes of the concept of representation which ought to be taken into consideration in each study on re...

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of concept mapping on mastery goal orientation and academic self-efficacy in a collaborative learning environment. The current study employed a randomized controlled pretest-posttest group design to examine if learning strategies such as concept mapping can help students with both reading comprehension achievement and intrinsic motivation o...

Recent studies find that school-age children learn better when they have active control during study. Yet little is known about how individual differences in strategy or cognitive control skills may affect active learning for preschoolers, nor if experimental measures of active learning map onto real-world learning outcomes. The current study assesses 101 low-income 5-year-olds on an active cat...

Resistance-surface-based connectivity modeling has become a widespread tool for conservation planning. The current ease with which connectivity models can be created, however, masks the numerous untested assumptions underlying both the rules that produce the resistance surface and the algorithms used to locate low-cost paths across the target landscape. Here we present a process to guide map cr...

In 1969 M. Gromov in his PhD thesis [G1] greatly generalized Smale-Hirsch-Phillips immersionsubmersion theory (see [Sm],[Hi], [Ph]) by proving what is now called the h-principle for invariant open differential relations over open manifolds. Gromov extracted the original geometric idea of Smale and put it to work in the maximal possible generality. Gromov’s thesis was brought to the West by A. P...