Based on MODIS NDVI and NOAA NDVI datum, covering the primary grassland types of Inner Mongolian in growing seasons from 2000 to 2003, this paper analyzes annual variation rule of the relationship between MODIS NDVI and NOAA NDVI datum. We use the theory of statistics to discuss the spatial scaling methods between different resolutions images of remote sensing in large-scale spatial extent. At ...

It is shown that density fluctuations obey a scaling law in an open Friedmann universe. In a flat universe, the fluctuations are not scale-invariant. We compute the growth rate of adiabatic scale-invariant density fluctuations in flat, open and inflationary universes. We find that, given a sufficiently long time, the density perturbations decay away in the Einstein-de-Sitter universe. On the co...

Similarity measures, extent to which two concepts have similar meanings, are key to understanding how concepts are represented, with different theoretical perspectives relying on very different sources of data from which similarity can be calculated. Experiential/embodied theories use verbal features or property ratings; distributional/relational ones use cooccurrence. Similarity may also be es...

we mean an equivalence class of paths modulo reparametrizations. Write CD for the set of chords in D. Given a path γ, we write [γ] for the associated chord; more generally, if γ is a continuous map from any compact subinterval I of [0,∞] to Û , starting at z0 and ending at z1, we can obtain a chord [γ] in D by choosing an increasing homeomorphism φ : [0, 1] → I and setting [γ] = [γ ◦ φ]. Write ...

Samples of phytobenthos were collected during three different seasons in 2005 along a linear transect of a lowland peat bog at various spatial scales (10 cm, 1 m, 10 m) to investigate the seasonal dynamics, diversity, and factors influencing the spatial patterns of microalgal communities. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS), similarity percentage (SIMPER) analyses, ANOSIM, Mantel tests a...