Water availability is the most influential factor affecting plant carbon (δ(13)C) and nitrogen (δ(15)N) isotope composition in arid and semi-arid environments. However, there are potential differences among locations and/or species in the sensitivity of plant δ(13)C and δ(15)N to variation in precipitation, which are important for using stable isotope signatures to extract paleo-vegetation and ...

In this paper, a robust stereo matching technique using growing component seeds has been proposed in order to find a semi-dense disparity map. In the proposed algorithm only a fraction of the disparity space is checked to find a semi-dense disparity map. The method is a combination of both the feature based and the area based matching algorithms. The features are the non-horizontal edges extrac...

The collision and safety control of industrial UGVs equipped with laser range finders is often based on conservative area-oriented policies that lack in flexibility and does not deal well with non ephemeral environment changes due to semi-static objects (e.g. passive misplaced objects). In this paper, we propose a method to detect and represent semi-static objects using polygonal local maps in ...

We used genotyping by sequencing to identify a set of 10,480 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for constructing a high-resolution genetic map of 1096 cM for watermelon. We assessed the genome-wide variation in recombination rate (GWRR) across the map and found an association between GWRR and genome-wide nucleotide diversity. Collinearity between the map and the genome-wide reference ...

Let X = ΣY be a suspension. A question in homotopy theory is how to decompose the n-fold self smash product X into a wedge of spaces. Consider the set of homotopy classes [X, X]. Let the symmetric group Sn act on X by permuting positions. So for each σ ∈ Sn there is a map σ : X → X. This gives a function θ : Sn → [X, X]. By assuming that X is a suspension, [X, X] is an abelian group and so ther...

In this paper we propose a quadratically convergent algorithm for finding the largest eigenvalue of a nonnegative homogeneous polynomialmapwhere theNewtonmethod is used to solve an equivalent system of nonlinear equations. The semi-symmetric tensor is introduced to reveal the relation between homogeneous polynomial map and its associated semi-symmetric tensor. Based on this relation a globally ...

This paper proposes a multi-class semi-supervised learning algorithm of the graph based method. We make use of the Bayesian framework of Gaussian process to solve this problem. We propose the prior based on the normalized graph Laplacian, and introduce a new likelihood based on softmax function model. Both the transductive and inductive problems are regarded as MAP (Maximum A Posterior) problem...