For the rest of the semester we will discuss representations of groups, mostly finite groups. An elementary treatment would start with characters and their computation. But the Wedderburn structure theorem will allow us to start at a higher level which will give more meaning to the character tables which we will be constructing. This is from Lang, XVIII, §1-7 with additional material from Serre...

Grounded theory methodology (GTM), with its espoused goal of theory development of novel phenomena, has found broad application in Information Systems (IS) research. To investigate how GTM is applied in IS research and how the research contributions are contingent on those applications, we review 43 GTM-based articles in major IS and related journals. Ten of the articles develop theory. The oth...

In the life sciences, short time series with high dimensional entries are becoming more and more popular such as spectrometric data or gene expression profiles taken over time. Data characteristics rule out classical time series analysis due to the few time points, and they prevent a simple vectorial treatment due to the high dimensionality. In this contribution, we successfully use the generat...

In rugged terrain, the accuracy of surface reflectance estimations is compromised by atmospheric and topographic effects. We propose a new method to simultaneously eliminate atmospheric and terrain effects in Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) images based on a 30 m digital elevation model (DEM) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) atmospheric products. Moreover, we define a norm...

Minnaert constants (K) were derived from non atmospherically corrected, high-sun elevation angle Landsat TM data (8 June 1996 and 13 July 1997) and DEMs at 30x30 m spatial resolution using the IDL procedure developed at Dartmouth College. K constants were calculated for two contiguous areas in northern Apennines, the former (366 ha) covered by beech (Fagus Sylvatica) forest and the latter (343 ...

The impact of topographic attributes on the uneven distribution of seismic response and associated devastation has frequently been observed and documented during seismic events, but has rarely been investigated at a regional scale. Existing numerical and experimental techniques applied to explore the impact of topographic attributes in the aggravation of seismic response, have been limited to i...

PURPOSE To investigate the effectiveness of femtosecond laser-assisted intrastromal relaxing incisions for astigmatism management and establish laser treatment parameters. METHODS Sixteen eyes of 16 patients had regular astigmatism after penetrating keratoplasty. All sutures had been removed and the refraction was stabilized. Paired arcuate intrastromal incisions were made 180° apart within t...

The availability of ZY-3 satellite data provides additional potential for surveying, mapping, and quantitative studies. Topographic correction, which eliminates the terrain effect caused by the topographic relief, is one of the fundamental steps in data preprocessing for quantitative analysis of vegetation. In this paper, we rectified ZY-3 satellite data using five commonly used topographic cor...

this study was carried out in sorkhdeh rangeland in semnan province in order to determine the ecological species groups and their relationships with environmental factors as a tool for better management. vegetation sampling was performed in 230 plots under equal random classification method and soil samples were taken in 0-15 depth. climatic and topographic data were extracted by overlaying sam...