Tiring of the touts and tourists in Kathmandu, I decided to travel to Pokhara to see the sun rise over Annapurna. In order to experience the rural way of life of the Nepalese, I scorned the comfortable tourist-bus in favour of the service-bus used by the peasants. At ?1.30 for a journey of 130 miles it seemed a bargain? but subsequent experience proved otherwise. Kathmandu bus-station is a mech...

inspecting the level of simplification provided by a scale. Then he selects points in his segmentation task (Left), the correspondent basins in the respective Selection Scale are highlighted (Middle). Similar regions are collected by a region grouping algorithm, which are then focused into the representation scale. A smooth isosurface wraps the grouped similar connected regions (Right). Figure ...

Abstract. We study first some arrangements of hyperplanes in the n-dimensional projective space Pn(Fq). Then we compute, in particular, the second and the third highest numbers of rational points on hypersurfaces of degree d. As application of our results we obtain some weights of the Generalized Projective Reed-Muller codes PRM(q, d, n). And we also list all the homogeneous polynomials reachin...