Many provinces in China including Shanghai, Tianjin, Jiansu, Hubei, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Changzhou, Cangzhou, and Jianxing (Deng and Ju, 1994; Ding et al., 2005; Hu et al., 2004; Xue et al., 2005; Yang et al., 2005) are subsiding owing to rapid development and urbanization. The cause identified with these subsidence phenomena has been mainly due to excessive withdrawal of groundwater (Chai et al.,...

Mechanisms for compressing text have been studied for many years, and a wide range of effective methods has been developed. But compression of text makes it unwieldy in other ways – it must be decompressed before being viewed, and it is harder to directly search. One way of addressing these concerns is to build an index for the source document, and search via a query interface [Witten et al., 1...

the nw-se trending zagros fold and thrust belt extends for about 1,800 km from a location some 300 km se of the east anatolian fault in ne turkey to the strait of hormuz where the north-south trending zendan-minab-palami fault system (zmp) separates the zagros belt from the makran accretionary prism. the ne limit of the zagros belt is marked by the main zagros reverse fault which is rotated abo...

Much attention has focused on tonal and harmonic sounds that animals produce, while less attention has focused on the production or function of atonal, non-harmonic sounds, despite these non-linear vocal phenomena being easily identified on a spectrogram (Fitch et al. 2002). Formally, only pure tones have no non-linear attributes because harmonics are one type of non-linearity. In this study, w...

Mechanisms for compressing text have been studied for many years, and a wide range of effective methods has been developed. But compression of text makes it unwieldy in other ways – it must be decompressed before being viewed, and it is harder to directly search. One way of addressing these concerns is to build an index for the source document, and search via a query interface [Witten et al., 1...

Liquid crystal suspensions including variousmicroand nano-colloidal particles have recently been received great attention for many practical applications such as nanosensors and devices, etc. When large colloidal particles of micronscale are dispersed in a uniform nematic liquid crystal phase, the colloidal particles disturb a long-range orientational order of the nematic phase. For a strong an...

An interesting question surrounding semisupervised learning for NLP is: should we use discriminative models or generative models? Despite the fact that generative models have been frequently employed in a semi-supervised setting since the early days of the statistical revolution in NLP, we advocate the use of discriminative models. The ability of discriminative models to handle complex, high-di...

Spatial autoregressive moving average (ARMA) processes have been extensively used in several applications in image/signal processing. In particular, these models have been used for image segmentation, edge detection and image filtering. Image restoration algorithms based on robust estimation of a two-dimensional process have been developed (Kashyap & Eom 1988). Also the two-dimensional autoregr...

The process of angiogenesis includes sprouting of new vessels from pre-existing ones, their remodelling and regression. Angiogenesis is a pre-requisite for growth and differentiation of organs and tissues as it allows for supply with nutrients and oxygen (Folkman, 2003). Angiogenesis also plays a key role in many pathological processes, particularly growth and metastasis of tumours (Folkman, 19...

Optimality Theory (henceforth OT) (Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004) is based upon lexicographic optimization. It differs in this respect from Harmonic Grammar (henceforth HG) (Legendre et al. 1990a, Legendre et al. 1990b), which is based upon linear numeric optimization. Differences between the two have been discussed in several places, including (Legendre et al. 2006, Pater et al. 2007a, Prince...