Phylogeography is a relatively new discipline that deals with the spatial arrangements of genetic lineages, especially within and among closely related species. The word phylogeography was coined in 1987 (Avise et al., 1987). About a decade earlier, scientists had begun using mitochondrial (mt) DNA to address precisely how conspecific individuals are genealogically linked through shared ancesto...

In this report, we consider prediction of an agent’s preferences over risky monetary outcomes using Prospect Theory. We suppose that for a given agent we have data on previous prospects that the agent has accepted or declined. Based on this information, we would like to predict whether the agent will accept some new prospect X∗. This amounts to learning a value function v and probability weight...

In science, we look for the big picture, but in autobiography, it is details that care more about. Inevitably, my piece embodies this contradiction. The linguistic parts aim to bring out unifying themes behind what may like a hopelessly all-over-the-place curriculum vitae of research and teaching. autobiographical are mostly vignettes formative years, places where I have lived, events made an i...

The paper is concerned with the hydrogeological appraisal of the proposed mining operations in theThar lignite field in Sindh, Pakistan. The Thar coalfield covers an area of approximately 9000km2 andcontains three lignite seams lying at depth of 130m to 250 m. In the Thar lignite field, the presence ofthree main aquifers induces pore pressure in the rock mass surrounding the lignite seams and m...

This note presents explicitly a strong connection between the Tsallis thermodynamics and the so-called prospect theory introduced to take into account agent’s decisions under risk. Moreover, using the cumulative prospect theory adapted here for a continuous framework, we show that if the Tsallis parameter q belongs to the interval [0,1], then the prospect theory requirement that extreme events ...

In the process of moving target detection, moving objects and their shadows are often extracted both. It leads to the failure of moving target positioning, segmentation, tracking and classification in the moving-object detection. Thus the shadow removal is an important task in the intelligent monitoring system. In the process of shadow removal, using color features to detect shadow is easy to c...