Body size is recognized as a major factor in evolutionary processes mediating sympatric diversification and community structuring. Life-history types with distinct body sizes can result from two fundamental mechanisms, size-dependent competition and size-dependent mortality. While previous theoretical studies investigated these two processes in separation, the model analyzed here allows both se...

Cognitive models claim that spoken words are recognized by an optimally efficient sequential analysis process. Evidence for this is the finding that nonwords are recognized as soon as they deviate from all real words (Marslen-Wilson 1984), reflecting continuous evaluation of speech inputs against lexical representations. Here, we investigate the brain mechanisms supporting this core aspect of w...

[1] Regular vegetation patterns in semiarid ecosystems are believed to arise from the interplay between long-range competition and facilitation processes acting at smaller distances. We show that, under rather general conditions, longrange competition alone may be enough to shape these patterns. To this end we propose a simple, general model for the dynamics of vegetation, which includes only l...

The effects of attention and stimulus competition on the late auditory-evoked potential (LAEP) were compared in 10 young males and 10 young females. Listeners attended to discriminably different oddball tonal sequences presented binaurally or monaurally. Peak amplitudes in response to the frequent tones were measured for N1, P2, and early and late N2 (N2e and N21) components of the LAEP Whereas...

Competitive interactions shape the evolution of organisms. However, often it is not clear whether competition is the driving force behind the patterns observed. The recent use of experimental evolution in competitive environments can help establish such causality. Unfortunately, this literature is scattered, as competition for food, mates, and hosts are subject areas that belong to different re...

Intermicrobial competition is known to occur in many natural environments, and can result from direct conflict between organisms, or from differential rates of growth, colonization, and/or nutrient acquisition. It has been difficult to extensively examine intermicrobial competition in situ, but these interactions may play an important role in the regulation of the many biogeochemical processes ...

The ICDAR Robust Reading Competition (RRC), initiated in 2003 and re-established in 2011, has become the defacto evaluation standard for the international community. Concurrent with its second incarnation in 2011, a continuous effort started to develop an online framework to facilitate the hosting and management of competitions. This short paper briefly outlines the Robust Reading Competition A...

This paper describes a method of obtaining MOLS of order v = 2np for p a prime power. In particular, it gives 5,7 and 9 MOLS of orders 48,40 and 80 respectively. If x = Min(2p-1 ,2n-1 ,4n-2) , it is conjectured that x MOLS of order v are always-obtainable by this method. Australasian Journ::ll of ~ohmin::ltnrirc: 101 1QQLl \ n .... 17f.;;_1Qg::