Various common error sources affect the quality of a map, e.g., salt and pepper noise and other forms of noise that are more or less uniformly distributed over the map. But there also exist errors that only occur very rarely in the mapping process but that have severe effects on the final result. They influence not only the local accuracy but also the whole spatial layout of the map. Examples o...

Understanding intraspecific geographic variation in animal signals poses a challenging evolutionary problem. Studies addressing geographic variation typically focus on signals used in mate-choice, however, geographic variation in intrasexual signals involved in competition is also known to occur. In Polistes dominulus paper wasps, females have black facial spots that signal dominance: individua...

Grief is an opportunity to offer empathy by honouring brokenness support healing, writes Amy Price

Imitating Nathan Carlin’s correlational method in Pastoral Aesthetics, this essay provides an extended description of a patient care situation to consider what it means reciprocally recognize someone as being able make autonomous choices health care. Next, Larry Graham’s concept the interlocking brokenness selves and worlds is explored relation case reciprocal recognition. And finally, borrowin...

this essay approaches the challenges of global translation in the 21st century from what might still be considered a somewhat uncommon example: a direct translation of ismail kadaré's 1978 novel prill e thyër (broken april) from the original albanian into brazilian portuguese in 2001. not only does it examine and compare lexical elements in the source and target texts and the usage of translato...

Scanline surveys consist of directional and qualitative measurements of rock discontinuities. These surveys are used in geologic and engineering investigations of fractured rock masses. This paper introduces a new MATLAB script developed for visualizing results from scanline surveys as traces in 2D and disks in 3D. The script is also able to cluster orientation data and to present statistical s...