Thalweg profiles are longitudinal profiles of the streambed elevation measured along the deepest portion of the stream. This technique has recently been advocated as a tool to monitor fish habitat in streams because profiles can provide useful information on such habitat, and measurements are both repeatable and independent of stream flow. However, a relation between fish abundance and metrics ...

Many pneumatic energy sources are available for use in autonomous and wearable soft robotics, but it is often not obvious which options are most desirable or even how to compare them. To address this, we compare pneumatic energy sources and review their relative merits. We evaluate commercially available battery-based microcompressors (singly, in parallel, and in series) and cylinders of high-p...

the general relatively isotropic mean landsberg metrics contain the general relativelyisotropic landsberg metrics. a class of finsler metrics is given, in which the mentioned two conceptsare equivalent. in this paper, an interpretation of general relatively isotropic mean landsberg metrics isfound by using c-conformal transformations. some necessary conditions for a general relativelyisotropic ...

We discuss the physical interpretation of stress-energy tensors that source static spherically symmetric Kerr-Schild metrics. We find that the sources of such metrics with no curvature singularities or horizons do not simultaneously satisfy the weak and strong energy conditions. Sensible stress-energy tensors usually satisfy both of them. Under most circumstances, these sources are not perfect ...

We address the problem of class imbalance in supervised grammatical error detection (GED) for non-native speaker text, which is the result of the low proportion of erroneous examples compared to a large number of error-free examples. Most learning algorithms maximize accuracy which is not a suitable objective for such imbalanced data. For GED, most systems address this issue by tuning hyperpara...

Lectin-like oxidized low-density lipoprotein receptor-1 (LOX-1), the primary receptor for ox-LDL in endothelial cells, is a multi-ligand scavenger receptor that plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disorders and recently identified as a tumor marker. LOX-1 is naturally present in caveolae/lipid rafts in plasma membranes and disruption of these membrane ...

Probabilistic distance functions, including several variants of value difference metrics, minimum risk metric and ShortFukunaga metrics, are used with prototype-based rules (P-rules) to provide a very concise and comprehensible classification model. Application of probabilistic metrics to nominal or discrete features is straightforward. Heterogeneous metrics that handle continuous attributes wi...

Multi-modal biometric fusion is more accurate and reliable compared to recognition using a single biometric modality. However, most existing fusion approaches neglect the influence of the qualities of the biometric samples in information fusion. Our goal is to advance the state-of-the-art in biometric fusion technology by providing a more universal and more accurate solution for personal identi...

The interconnection of vehicles is an important topic concerning the enhancement of traffic safety and traffic efficiency. Therefore, vehicles exchange position and state information with each other to establish an awareness level for the calculation of collision probabilities with their neighbors. To recognize critical safety situations it is essential to receive information reliably. However,...

We introduce a transformation, named rephasing, that manipulates the timing parameters in control-dataflow graphs (CDFGs) during the high-level synthesis of datapath intensive applications. Timing parameters in such CDFGs include the sample period, the latencies between input-output pairs, the relative times at which corresponding samples become available on different inputs, and the relative t...