Abstract This article argues that an expanded view of linguistic landscapes provides a useful metaphor for exploring language policies. Following this view, “language policy” is defined as “linguistic landscaping” (i.e., placing policy mechanisms which, together with already placed mechanisms, construct metaphorical landscape). The application landscaping has several advantages, it way to imagi...

Studies have shown that the human capability of monitoring multiple surveillance videos is limited. Computer vision techniques have been developed to detect abnormal events to support human video surveillance; however, their results are often unreliable, thus distracting surveillance operators and making them miss important events. This paper presents Hotspot as a surveillance video visualizati...

The spacetime metric around a rotating SuperConductive Ring (SCR) is deduced from the gravitomagnetic London moment in rotating superconductors. It is shown that theoretically it is possible to generate Closed Timelike Curves (CTC) with rotating SCRs. The possibility to use these CTC’s to travel in time as initially idealized by Gödel is investigated. It is shown however, that from a technology...

Intelligent video tracking technology is the digital video processing and analysis of an important field of application in the civilian and military defense have a wide range of applications. In this paper, a systematic study on the surveillance video of the Smart in the agricultural tracking, particularly in target detection and tracking problem of the study, respectively for the static backgr...

Spatial heterogeneity is a source of complexity in environmental models, but can also be an important part of landscape dynamics and our understanding of environmental processes. The majority of our knowledge of environmental processes to date has been acquired from relatively small plot-based experiments. Recently there has been a growing recognition that in order to apply this knowledge to re...

These lectures contain a brief description of evolutionary models inspired by the statistical mechanics of disordered systems. After an introduction describing the Darwinian paradigm of evolving populations, the deterministic quasispecies equation is described, and the simplest fitness landscapes are discussed. The effect of finite population size is then considered, from the opposing points of...

We present a method for designing a funnel-shaped free-energy surface that reproducibly assembles secondary structure elements of proteins into their native conformations from a random extended configuration. Assuming a priori knowledge of secondary structure, our method can design a funnel-shaped surface for folding of alpha, beta, and alphabeta structures individually. We design energy surfac...

Smartphone applications are driving a growing interest in 3D modelling – in particular the use of LiDAR for modelling city landscapes at high levels of precision and accuracy. In such dynamic environments, where we wish to make decisions based on places of interest that are in the (rapidly changing) field of view, it is critical that we address performance issues in visibility analysis. This pa...