Previous studies have demonstrated that peripheral denervation of the skin is reflected in the CNS as a reorganization of somatotopic representations. In cases in which peripheral nerve regeneration occurs there is a gradual reactivation of cortex by novel receptive fields that is reversed as regenerated nerves reestablish connections with the original skin surface. Functional recovery appears ...

Two methods providing representation of high dimensional input data in a lower dimensional target space are compared Although multidimensional scaling MDS and Kohonen s self organizing maps SOM are dedicated to very di erent applications both methods are based on an iterative process that tends to approximate the topography of high dimensional data and both can be used to model self organizatio...

For the prediction of the device performance of FinFET structures three-dimensional device simulation is inevitable. Due to the strong quantum mechanical confinement in the channel, quantum correction models need to be applied. Two of these models, where one is based on the correction of the densityof-states in a pre-processing step and the other calculates a correction for the band edge energy...

Contour moiré pictures with good contrast of a full size living body are now available. Construction problems, performance, and accuracy of large instruments are experimentally studied. Techniques to minimize the drawbacks of the moiré contouring are developed. The system has been proved to be ready for practical application to full size living bodies.

R ivers develop on planetary bodies from the interplay of climate and topography. In planetary contexts, rivers and their effects are used to constrain shortand long-term climate models. However, rivers are also controlled by the shortand long-wavelength topography of the planetary surface. Rivers thus provide a means to constrain the generation of topography. On page 727 of this issue, Black e...

[1] Oblique convergence is the general rule along convergent boundaries. Such convergence produces asymmetric deformation (topography) along the collision boundary. To quantify this asymmetry, we develop a method that allows us to calculate the asymmetry in topography with respect to a reference line drawn perpendicular to the collision boundary. The asymmetry in topography is presented as a nu...

The Tibetan Plateau, the world’s largest orogenic plateau, hosts thousands of lakes that play a prominent role as water resources, environmental archives, and sources of natural hazards such as glacier lake outburst floods. Previous studies reported that the size of the lakes on the Tibetan Plateau has been changing rapidly in recent years, possibly because of contemporary global warming. Track...

PURPOSE To describe a new software tool for the detailed presentation of corneal topography measurements variability by means of color-coded maps. METHODS Software was developed in Visual Basic to analyze and process a series of 10 consecutive measurements obtained by a topographic system on calibration spheres, and individuals with emmetropic, low, high, and irregular astigmatic corneas. Cor...

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We introduce an object-based method to automatically classify topography from SRTM data. The new method relies on the concept of decomposing land-surface complexity into more homogeneous domains. An elevation layer is automatically segmented and classified at three scale levels that represent domains of complexity by using self-adaptive, data-driven techniques. For each domain, scales in the da...