A population craniometric analysis of the red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) from Bulgaria was carried out using 19 linear skull and dental parameters. The analysis included 93 adult individuals (74 males and 19 females), originating from the main hunting economic areas in the country, i.e. Central Stara Planina Mountains, Strandzha-Sakar area, Ludogorie-Dobrudzha region and the Rila-Pirin region. Th...

The Urban spatial structure is affected by spatial interactions among various activity locations, and land uses in the city over the transportation system. Each city has its unique circulation pattern of passengers and freight due to its unique geographic conditions and the distribution of locations of economic activities. In that sense, it is claimed in this chapter per the authors that urban ...

objectives: new cognitive theories of delusions have proposed that deficit or bias in inference stage (a stage of normal belief formation) is significant in delusion formation. the aim of this study was predicting the severity of delusions based on jumping-to-conclusion bias in patients with schizophrenia. methods: the sample consisted of 60 deluded patients with schizophrenia who were selected...

estimating similarity is expressed in many domains and sciences. for instance, data mining, web mining, clustering, search engines, ontology mapping and social networks require the definition and deployment of similarity. user similarity in social networks is one of the main problems and has many applications in this area. in this paper, a new method is introduced for combining structural and n...

The following paper describes a framework for the visualization and analysis of economic data. It can be employed in the context of risk analysis, stock prediction and other tasks being important in the context of banking. The system bases on a quantification of the similarity of related objects, which governs the parameters of a mass-spring system, organized as two concentric spheres. More spe...

This study is an attempt to assess quantitatively social and economic factors that determine vulnerability of Russian regions to natural risk, to trace the space differences of the considered factors, and to group the regions by their similarity. In order to indicate the regional differences in social and economic development, equipment condition, dangerous substances accumulation, and social t...

Net blotch, caused by the phytopathogen Drechslera teres, is a common disease of barley (Hordeum vulgare L) and is responsible for large economic losses in some barley growing areas. In this study the morphology and genetic variability of eight D. teres isolates from different regions of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul were investigated. Colony morphology was studied on potato-dextrose...

We construct a network of member states of the United Nations General Assembly based on how similarly they vote on resolutions. We describe a similarity metric that we feel better describes the inter-nation relationships than previously proposed models. Next, we introduce a mechanism to infer the best diplomatic path between countries that do not have high similarity in voting. Lastly, we creat...