Barrier islands are heavily influenced by external drivers such as sea-level rise, storm-related disturbances, and other complex factors that affect net sediment exchange. Numerous ecological processes (e.g., dispersal, competition, and facilitation) interact with these drivers and ultimately influence barrier-island state change and therefore stability. Our synthesis of physical and ecological...

Heterogeneous and incomplete datasets are common in many real-world applications. The probabilistic nature of the Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM), which only handles complete continuous data originally, offers the ability to extend it to also visualise mixed-type and missing data as suggested in (Bishop et al., 1998a). This paper describes this generalisation of GTM and assesses the result...

We currently know little of the role of the corporate human resource (HR) function in multinational corporations regarding global talent management (GTM). GTM is explored here from two perspectives: increasing global competition for talent, and new forms of international mobility. The first considers the mechanisms of GTM, and the second, individual willingness to be mobile, especially in emerg...

This paper describes our participation in the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge [1]. Starting from our previous experience in the use of automatic classification for the validation of an expressive corpus, we have tackled the difficult task of emotion recognition from speech with real-life data. Our main contribution to this work is related to the classifier sub-challenge, for which we tested ...

Adaptations of Abies nordmanniana, Picea orientalis, Pinus sylvestris, Fagus and Carpinus betulus to the abiotic environmental conditions study area largely determined their predicted distribution in Caucasus. The ecological niches species mostly coincided two analyzed complex factors (characteristics water regime topographic parameters). humidity factor was main determining potential forest-fo...

The epidemic of lung cancer in Xuanwei City, China, remains serious despite the reduction of the risk of indoor air pollution through citywide stove improvement. The main objective of this study was to characterize the influences of topography on the spatiotemporal variations of lung cancer mortality in Xuanwei during 1990-2013. Using the spatially empirical Bayes method, the smoothed mortality...

In many studies, topographic factors have been considered as an important factor in establishing the vegetation in different ecosystems. So, it affects vegetation composition and diversity by influencing soil moisture, fertility and soil depth. The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of slope, elevation and geographical aspects on species growth, forage production and vegetation...

This is the User s Guide to the GTM Toolbox a set of Matlab functions and scripts that implements and demonstrates the generative topographic mapping a method for density modelling dimensionality reduction and data visualisation This document gives a brief description of the GTM the content of the toolbox and what is required to use it It describes how to use the toolbox and provides a section ...