In a previous paper [Bag and Hu, Phys. Rev. E 73, 061107 (2006)], we studied the mean lifetime (MLT) for the escape of a Brownian particle through an unstable limit cycle driven by multiplicative colored Gaussian and additive Gaussian white noises and found resonant activation (RA) behavior. In the present paper we switch from Gaussian to non-Gaussian multiplicative colored noise. We find that ...

A ventilation simulator is implemented in android mobile devices to simulate the mechanics of the human lung. The simulation results shall be displayed by a dynamic plot to illustrate the trend of the ventilation parameters in real-time. The chosen software library to perform the plots is AndrodPlot [1]. The library provides basic features and tutorials for dynamic plotting. Tests were performe...

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Clustering is an important data exploration task. A prominent clustering algorithm is agglomerative hierarchical clustering. Roughly, in each iteration, it merges the closest pair of clusters. It was rst proposed way back in 1951, and since then there have been numerous mod-iications. Some of its good features are: a natural, simple, and non-parametric grouping of similar objects which is capab...

The properties of a variable area sampling technique, by which the observer varies the searchradius to obtain approximately a prescribed number of woody plants in each tier measured, were determined by (i) comparison of fixed area and variable area sampling of a computer-mapped shrub population; (ii) comparison of results from fixed area and variable area sampling of woody plants exceeding abou...

Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) is increasingly influential for making land management decisions, for directing conservation policy, and for research. But, the basic ecological properties and limitations of its metrics are ill defined and not well understood-especially those related to sample methods and scale. Nested plot data from a remnant tallgrass prairie sampled annually over a 12-year...

Biodiversity measurement served as baseline data for the development of effective conservation plans. The accuracy was highly dependent on size sample plot. Even though Indonesia had various ecosystems, standard plot measuring plant species diversity only available lowland, lower montane, and mangrove forests. Therefore, this study aimed to determine optimal dimension plots in coastal forest ec...

Small-study effects are a common threat in systematic reviews and may indicate publication bias. Their existence is often verified by visual inspection of the funnel plot. Formal tests to assess the presence of funnel plot asymmetry typically estimate the association between the reported effect size and their standard error, the total sample size, or the inverse of the total sample size. In thi...