Vessel groundings are a major source of disturbance to coral reefs worldwide. Documenting the extent of damage caused by groundings is a crucial first step in the reef restoration process. Here, we describe the application of a novel survey methodology, landscape video mosaics, to assessment of the damage caused by vessel groundings. Video mosaics, created by merging thousands of video frames, ...

public accountability is a sign of modern and democratic administration. accountability has become a topic of concern in governance literature. the question of holding politicians and administration accountable in new governance environment, where many traditional means for controlling government have been no longer fully applied, has gained wide recognition. as a consequence, new types of acco...

An image mosaic is an image made up of many other images. In this paper we investigate the automatic generation of such image mosaics, using content-based image retrieval as the underlying framework. Our first contribution is to describe and evaluate a few parameters that control the quality of the mosaic image. Our second contribution is the proposal of an (automatic) measure to assess the qua...

MOSAICS central objective is the development of an integrated conveyance system to manage the access and benefit sharing issues related to microbiological resources, in the context of the CBD and the enforcement of other relevant international rules. The purpose of the project is to design procedures and documents that set the rules at the source or original provider and during transfers. MOSAI...

Eggs from an ebony stock exposed to 5-5 degrees C prior to syngamy exhibited increased production of genetic mosaics in comparison with untreated eggs from the same females. No increase in mosaic production occurred for cold-shocked cleavage-stage embryos from the ebony stock or from pre-cleavage cold-shocked eggs from a wild-type stock. Heat shock of pre-syngamy eggs also failed to increase th...

Video resolution can be improved when a group of corresponding frames from two or three videos are registered, which are taken by two or three camcorders with fixed focus length and position. An efficient algorithm for constructing high quality video from videos is proposed. In order to reduce registration errors, we apply a gradient descent algorithm to the matching images, which results in an...

We propose an iterated version of the Gilbert model, which results in a sequence of random mosaics of the plane. We prove that under appropriate scaling, this sequence of mosaics converges to that obtained by a classical Poisson line process with explicit cylindrical measure. Our model arises from considerations on tropical plane curves, which are zeros of random tropical polynomials in two var...