a field study was undertaken with four farming systems (fs) such as; grasses and fodders, agro-forestry, agriculture (new farming systems) and shifting cultivation (old practice), to investigate the effect of land use on the soil properties, erosion and crop productivity on a loamy acidic alfisol. besides crops, the livestock were also kept and their dropping were incorporated in the respective...

Although most studies of visual attention have examined the effects of shifting attention between different locations in the visual field, attention can also be directed to particular visual features, such as a color, orientation or a direction of motion. Single-unit studies have shown that attention to a feature modulates neuronal signals in a range of areas in monkey visual cortex. The locati...

5 The LASSO 9 5.1 Performance of Lasso estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.2 “Normal equations” for the LASSO solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.3 Facts about Lasso solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 This short document presents the Dantzig Selector, first introd...

Wavelength scanning interferometry offers a new dimension in precision metrology by measuring the cavity length (thickness), the cavity length variation over the cavity area (flatness), and the optical homogeneity within a transparent cavity; without any mechanical movement by implementing a tunable laser. This property is useful when the physical movement of a large optic is not feasible using...

(I.Ch.:) Department of Algebra and Geometry, Palacký University Olomouc, Tomkova 40, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic (G.Cz. and E.K.H.:) University of Szeged, Bolyai Institute, Szeged, Aradi vértanúk tere 1, HUNGARY–6720. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

A high-speed method for line detection is proposed in this paper. By shifting the black points in a black/white image 1, a parallel line for each straight line on I will be generated. Through the use of the geometric property on a pair of parallel lines, the parameter sets of those lines possibly on I can be obtained immediately. Since the transform from image space to parameter space is one to...

Catastrophe insurance provides peace of mind and financial security. Climate change can have adverse impacts on insurance affordability and availability, potentially slowing the growth of the industry and shifting more of the burden to governments and individuals. Most forms of insurance are vulnerable, including property, liability, health, and life. It is incumbent on insurers, their regulato...

semantic shifting which is one of the most important semantic processes forming the meaning of some linguistic structures was first introduced by safavi (1379). the meaning of different structures such as proverbs, are made by semantic shifting which takes place on the syntagmatic axis, but is shown on the paradigmatic axis. the corpus used in this study consists of 10 persian proverbs which ar...