At last we have ascended the dimensional ladder to its ultimate rung (at least for those of us living in a three-dimensional universe): partial differential equations in physical space. As in the one and two-dimensional settings developed in the preceding chapters, the three key examples are the three-dimensional Laplace equation, modeling equilibrium configurations of solid bodies, the three-d...

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Manipulation of models of complex three-dimensional shapes is common in computer graphics and virtual reality, computer-aided-design, geographic information systems, medicine, etc. In this chapter, we deal with geometric models based on spatial decompositions, also known as geometric meshes. A mesh is an aggregate of a finite number of basic entities, called cells. When a mesh is used to descri...

Copyright: © 2006 David Fay. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected] Genetic mapping and manipulation: Chapter 5-SNPs: Three-point ...

Spatial data mining is the process of discovering interesting and previously unknown, but potentially useful, patterns from large spatial datasets. Extracting interesting and useful patterns from spatial datasets is more diicult than extracting the corresponding patterns from traditional numeric and categorical data due to the complexity of spatial data types, spatial relationships, and spatial...

Decisions can, and do, go wrong: a doctor misdiagnoses a patient's illness; a new product fails in the marketplace; a military commander mistakenly engages a civilian aircraft. Undesirable outcomes, however, do not necessarily imply faulty decision making; consider General Hod's decision to shoot down a Libyan airliner (described at the end of the last chapter). Even though the aircraft turned ...

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cognitive science has found out that languages typically make use of conceptual metaphors to concretize abstract meanings. conceptual metaphor explains a target domain which is abstract via a source domain which is concrete. in other words, conceptual metaphor compares an abstract domain with a concrete one and thus makes it understandable for listeners/readers. this article studies the concept...

the first lines of aristotle's on interpretation are one of the most influential texts in the history of semantics and an important introduction to understanding and elaboration of some of aristotle's views. according to the classical interpretation, aristotle generally states that one’s writings represent spoken sounds and spoken sounds are in the first place representation of reacti...