The control of attention and the control of movement in space share a similar optimal control structure—mediating the tradeoff between exploiting one locale and exploring others. A common spatial foraging strategy observed in many species is area-restricted search, in which animals respond to resources or their absence by moving between local and global search strategies, respectively. When res...

Complete characterization of a noisy multipartite quantum state in terms entanglement requires full knowledge how the content is affected by spatial distribution noise state. Specifically, we find that if measurement basis protocol computing localizable and Kraus operator representing local channel do not commute, information regarding retained system even after qubit traced out measurement. Us...

in this research, the spatial distribution of electrical conductivity and ph of springs, ghanats and the base flow concentration places on the streams of central and south-west and central parts of the hamedan-bahar plain were evaluated. using different geostatistical methods such as kriging, minimum curvature, inverse distance, natural neighbor, local polynomial and radial basis functions, 108...

Combinatorial cis-regulatory networks encoded in animal genomes represent the foundational gene expression mechanism for directing cell-fate commitment and maintenance of cell identity by transcription factors (TFs). However, the 3D spatial organization of cis-elements and how such sub-nuclear structures influence TF activity remain poorly understood. Here, we combine lattice light-sheet imagin...

the mathematical modeling of fracture networks is critical for the exploration and development ofnatural resources. fractures can help the production of petroleum, water, and geothermal energy. theyalso greatly influence the drainage and production of methane gas from coal beds. orientation andspatial distribution of fractures in rocks are important factors in controlling fluid flow. the object...

spatial patterns of soil fertility parameters, and other extrinsic factors need to be iden-tified to develop farming practices that match agricultural inputs with local crop needs. little is known about the spatial structure of yield and weed density across fields. in this study, geostatistics was used to describe and map spatial patterns of soil total nitrogen, available phosphorus, available ...

Combinatorial optimization has been a workhorse of financial and risk management, and it has spawned a large number of real-life applications. Prominent in this body of research is the mean-variance efficient frontier (MVEF) that emanates from the portfolio optimization problem (POP), pioneered by Harry Markowitz. A textbook version of POP minimizes risk for a given expected return on a portfol...

This paper develops Order Acceptance for an Integrated Production-Distribution Problem in which Batch Delivery is implemented. The aim of this problem is to coordinate: (1) rejecting some of the orders (2) production scheduling of the accepted orders and (3) batch delivery to maximize Total Net Profit. A Mixed Integer Programming is proposed for the problem. In addition, a hybrid meta-heuristic...

We present a method for utilising knowledge of qualitative spatial relations between objects in order to facilitate efficient visual search for those objects. A computational model for the relation is used to sample a probability distribution that guides the selection of camera views. Specifically we examine the spatial relation “on”, in the sense of physical support, and show its usefulness in...