Temporal integration of equations possessing continuous symmetries (e.g. systems with translational invariance associated with traveling solutions and scale invariance associated with self-similar solutions) in a “co-evolving” frame (i.e. a frame which is co-traveling, co-collapsing or co-exploding with the evolving solution) leads to improved accuracy because of the smaller time derivative in ...

We test whether immigrants are more prone to support terror than natives because of lower opportunity costs, using the international World Values Survey data. We show that, in general, economically, politically and socially non-integrated persons are more likely to accept using violence for achieving political goals, consistent with the economic model of crime. We also find evidence for the des...

Published articles are reprinted here with the permission of the publishers. Cover page: collage of pictures from the proteomics procedure applied in this work superimposed on a photograph of a rocky habitat from the coast of Galicia (July of 2005). Summary vii List of publications ix List of abbreviations xi 1 Environmental proteomics 1 1.1 Biomonitoring and assessment of marine pollution .

Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD countries’ social and overall spending as well as their implicit tax rates on labor, consumption and capital. Accounting for potential endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that globalization (measured by an index covering 23 variables) did not decrease the leeway for indep...

The Duluth-WSI systems in SemEval-2 built word co–occurrence matrices from the task test data to create a second order co–occurrence representation of those test instances. The senses of words were induced by clustering these instances, where the number of clusters was automatically predicted. The Duluth-Mix system was a variation of WSI that used the combination of training and test data to cr...

LARD is a hardware description language which uses CSP-like channel communication to describe the behaviour of asynchronous VLSI systems. This communication abstraction makes LARD a much more productive language for this type of modelling than conventional languages such as VHDL. LARD simulations can be useful for debugging, for performance analysis , and for validating the behavioural model ag...

Extending popular histogram representations of local motion patterns, we present a novel weighted integration method based on an assumption that a motion importance should be changed by its appearance to obtain better recognition accuracies. The proposed integration method of motion and appearance patterns can weight information involving “what is moving” by discriminant way. The discriminant w...

This paper examines the behavior of forecasts made from a co-integrated system as introduced by Granger (1981), Granger and Weiss (1983) and Engle and Granger (1987). It is established that a multi-step forecast will satisfy the co-integrating relation exactly and that this particular linear combination of forecasts will have a finite limiting forecast error variance. A simulation study compare...

Developmental instability is used commonly to assess environmental conditions, but it is frequently observed that some traits, individuals, and species are better indicators of environmental stress than others. Herein we addressed the mechanisms behind this variation by examining stress-induced developmental instability in three coexisting species of soricid shrews. We examined jaw development ...

Globalization and growth-maximizing governments may cause countries to converge towards a similar composition of government expenditures. These convergent forces may be even more intensive in the case of EU Member States engaged in the European integration process. The results obtained, through calculation of a constructed dissimilarity index and by adapting the usual indicators of convergence ...