in order to quantify of schooling behavioral responses of rosy barb (puntius barbus) subjected to acute decreasing temperature stress monitored by computer- vision system. four aquaria as duplicate with a density of 30 fish per unit were used for rearing of fish in normal and stress conditions. some geometric schooling parameters such as average location of center gravity school and distance of...

in this study, the possibility of estimating wheat density was investigated by using a non-destructive method of output voltage of the light received by the photovoltaic cells. for the static tests, treatments and procedures, a system was designed and built. an experiment with different density on the wheat crop was carried out. the components of optical system clouding: photocells, led lights ...

nowadays use of detergents and cleaners becomes one of the essential of human life's. since these materials enter to the sewage systems, due to the existing poly phosphate, reacts with water and gradually becomes into phosphate ions and cause too many environmental problems that always have considered environmentalists. this study examined three factors was investigated in the removal of p...

The Janzen-Connell hypothesis proposes that specialist natural enemies, such as herbivores and pathogens, maintain diversity in plant communities by reducing survival rates of conspecific seeds and seedlings located close to reproductive adults or in areas of high conspecific density. Variation in the strength of distance- and density-dependent effects is hypothesized to explain variation in pl...

basins leading to tabriz plain are part of the sub-basins of urmia lake basin, which is located in the east azerbaijan province and in the north-western part of iran. the area of this basin is 5397 km2, and agriculture is one of the main sources of income for the people, which is dependent on groundwater and surface water resources. in this study, an attempt was made to investigate the basins l...

an experiment was conducted at zahak research station in zabol in 1996-97 to determine the best method of planting and plant density for mixed culture of cucumber and eggplant. in this experiment, yields of two crops were compared in individual and mixed cultures. in both systems the distances between two plant were 25 and 50 cm, and in the mixed culture eggplants were planted in the opposite o...

[1] Entrainment processes in convective clouds often occur stochastically and entrainment rate estimates depend on the distance from the cloud from which the dry air is entrained. However, no observational studies exist on either the distance dependence or probability density function of entrainment rate, hindering understanding and the parameterization of convection. Here entrainment rate in c...

A new method which allows identifying any shape of cluster patterns in case of numerical clustering is proposed. The method is based on the iterative clustering construction utilizing a nearest neighbor distance between clusters to merge. The method differs from other techniques of which the cluster density is determined based on calculating the variance factors. The cluster density proposed he...

We present and evaluate two variants of an algorithm for simultaneously segmenting and modeling a mixed-density unstructured 3D point cloud by ellipsoidal (Gaussian) region growing. The base algorithm merges initial ellipsoids into larger ellipsoidal segments with a minimum spanning tree algorithm. The variants differ only in the merge criterion used—a threshold on a generalised distance measur...

Reliable and repeatable methods for estimating animal abundance are fundamental to the effective study and management of New Zealand species. New Zealand scientists and conservation managers currently rely on measures of conspicuousness rather than density for indexing the sizes of many New Zealand animal populations. Distance sampling offers a group of methods which estimate the absolute densi...