Many real world problems require a degree of exibility that is di cult to achieve using hand programmed algorithms. One such domain is vision-based autonomous driving. In this task, the dual challenges of a constantly changing environment coupled with a real time processing constrain make the exibility and e ciency of a machine learning system essential. This chapter describes just such a learn...

Many real world problems quire a degree of flexibility that is diflicult to achieve using hand programmed algorithms. One such domain is vision-based autonomous driving. In this task, the dual challenges of a constantly changing environment coupled with a real t h e processing constrain make the flexibility and efficiency of a machine learning system essential. This chapter describes just such ...

the effect of forest roads on the extent and type of fire damage occurred in forests and rangelands of the neka county in mazandaran province was investigated. for this purpose, all fire spots, stand number, percentage and type of injury and damage to tree species, and average diameter at breast height (dbh) were noted with 100% inventory; area and geographic location of access roads were deter...

{Recent advances in global optimization for process synthesis, design and control are discussed. After a review of the chemical engineering contributions, we focus on the enclosure of all solutions of nonlinear constrained systems of equations. Important theoretical results are presented accompanied with computational studies on the enclosure of multiple steady states and all homogeneous azeotr...

Examining the way in which animals, including those in captivity, interact with their environment is extremely important for studying ecological processes and developing sophisticated animal husbandry. Here we use the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) to quantify the degree of sharing of salivary, skin, and fecal microbiota with their environment in captivity. Both species richness and microb...

rangeland shrubs may provide mechanical facilitation on their understory plants, by protecting themagainst the livestock grazing. however, such a facilitation effect may vary depending on the rangelandutilization rate. in a field research, mechanical facilitation of rangeland shrubs was compared in ahighly grazed, a moderately grazed and an enclosure site; in an arid rangeland, kakhak, gonabad,...

This work presents a numerical analysis of entropy generation in Γ-Shaped enclosure that was submitted to the natural convection process using a simple thermal lattice Boltzmann method (TLBM) with the Boussinesq approximation.  A 2D thermal lattice Boltzmann method with 9 velocities, D2Q9, is used to solve the thermal flow problem. The simulations are performed at a constant Prandtl number (Pr ...

the probability that the commutator of two group elements is equal to a given element has been introduced in literature few years ago. several authors have investigated this notion with methods of the representation theory and with combinatorial techniques. here we illustrate that a wider context may be considered and show some structural restrictions on the group.