Foraging time may be constrained by a suite of phenomena including weather, which can restrict a species' activity and energy intake. This is recognized as pivotal for many species whose distributions are known to correlate with climate, including kangaroos, although such impacts are rarely quantified. We explore how differences in shade seeking, a thermoregulatory behavior, of 2 closely-relate...

We compare two different methods in domain adaptation applied to constituent parsing: parser combination and cotraining, each used to transfer information from the source domain of news to the target domain of natural dialogs, in a setting without annotated data. Both methods outperform the baselines and reach similar results. Parser combination profits most from the large amounts of training d...

This paper introduces an extension of Answer Set Programming called Preference Set Constraint Programming which is a convenient and general formalism to reason with preferences. PSC programming extends Set Constraint Programming introduced by Marek and Remmel (Marek and Remmel 2004) by introducing two types of preference set constraint atoms, measure preference set constraint atoms and pre-orde...

this work presents the heat transfer characteristics of a new type of porous radiant air heater that operates on the basis of effective energy conversion method between flowing gas enthalpy and thermal radiation. at each layer, the gas and solid phases are considered in non-local thermal equilibrium, and combustion in the porous radiant burner is modeled by considering a non-uniform heat genera...

Under conditions of nonthermal radiant exposure to blue light (440 nm) the primate retina can suffer photic injury by a mechanism that must be photochemical in nature. We have examined the effects of elevated blood oxygen (pO2 of 270 mmHg) on the retinal photosensitivity to blue light in two macaque monkeys by histologic analysis of 12 lesions at 1 to 57 days after irradiation. The retinal imag...

This paper is a theoretical analysis of mirror tilt in a Michelson interferometer and its effect on the radiant flux over the active area of a rectangular photodetector or image sensor pixel. It is relevant to sensor applications using homodyne interferometry where these opto-electronic devices are employed for partial fringe counting. Formulas are derived for radiant flux across the detector f...