during an 11 days mission in february 2000 the shuttle radar topography mission (srtm) collected data over 80% of the earth's land surface, for all areas between 60 degrees n and 56 degrees s latitude. since srtm data became available, many studies utilized them for application in topography and morphometric landscape analysis. exploiting srtm data for recognition and extraction of topographic ...

the present paper compares full kinetics mechanisms in numerical modelling of porous radiant burners (prb), with their reduced forms. the two most frequently used mechanisms of methane combustion (gri3.0 and miller) were selected and their effects were examined on temperature, species concentration, burning speed, and pollutant emission. while the findings of numerical simulation of prb show fi...

In a self-organizing system, behavior emerges at the large scale from the collective interaction of simple rules that apply at the smaller scale. The behavior that emerges is not directly apparent from inspection of the local rules or processes operating at the lower level. Few problems in engineering have been addressed with the specific idea of designing simple rules that operate in an isolat...

In Eastern spiritual traditions, the biological mechanism of both individual enlightenment and evolution of the species toward higher consciousness is called kundalini, a potential force that once awakened can .produce a variety of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual effects. The ancient yogic texts described a life energy present in all living beings called prana. Kundalini was describe...

Volumes are the basic organizing mechanism for data in the Andrew file system, a large distributed system designed to support thousands of workstations. Volumes provide the basis for addressing, storing, and accessing the information within the system. They are independent of the physical configuration of the system, and may be freely moved about as the needs of the system dictate without disru...

Motorola, Phoenix Corporate Research Laboratories, 2100 East Elliot Road, MD EL508, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA tel: (602)413-4129, fax: (602)413-7281, email: [email protected] Abstract We describe “WarpNet”, a time-warping algorithm for speech recognition based on neural nets. WarpNet is a self-organizing matching mechanism intended to replace dynamic programming (Dynamic Time Warping or Viterbi-a...

During development of chordates, establishment of the body plan relies on the activity of an organizing centre located on the dorsal side of the embryo that patterns the embryo and induces neural tissue. Intriguingly, the evolutionary origin of this crucial signalling centre remains unclear and whether analogous organizers regulate D/V patterning in other deuterostome or protostome phyla is not...

In previous work[1] it was shown that a mechanism competing for a presynaptic factor enables the self-organizing formation of local receptive elds with orientation selectivity, even though the synapses between the input and output layers are all nonlocal, i.e., fully connected. The previous model, however, assumed a priori competitive systems, called hypercolumns, that may not appropriately rep...

Evolutionary economics provides a self-organizing stabilizing mechanism without relying on mechanic equilibria. However, there are substantial differences between the genetic evolutionary biology, and the evolution of institutions, firms, routines or strategies in economics. Most importantly, there is no genetic codification and no sexual reproduction in economic evolution, and the involved age...