* Department of Biology, Duke University, Phytotron Building, Science Drive, Box 90340, Durham, NC 27708-0340, USA, ‡ Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Móstoles, § Departamento de Agroquímica y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Miguel Hernández, 03202 Elche, and ¶ Departamento de Silvopascicultura, ETSI Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Mad...

We describe a three-species mechanism for spatial pattern formation in which only one species spatially moves. We show that a bifurca-tion to traveling or standing waves occurs. We contrast this mechanism for pattern formation with the better known cases where more than one species moves.

A quantitative model of auditory learning is presented to predict how auditory patterns are stored in the songbird auditory forebrain. This research focuses on the caudomedial nidopallium (NCM) in the songbird telencephalon, a candidate site for song perception and the formation of song auditory memories. The objective is to introduce simplified features of bird song that could be used by the a...

Question: Previous interpretations of the variance plot of paired quadrat variance method (PQV) have been incomplete. The objective of this study was to clarify the interpretation of PQV, and to shed additional light on how different quadrat variance methods can be used, in concert, to measure scale in transect data. Methods: We used artificial and real data to examine how the PQV method elucid...

Dynamic scenes with many different objects and interrelations changing over time demand complex representations. The identification of frequent patterns and prediction rules in such scenes would be very valuable as associations in the data could be discovered or a system’s performance could even be improved by utilizing the new information in the behavior decision process. In this work, a novel...

This paper analyzes the temporal pattern of prices for single-family housing. We estimate models of house price dynamics using a repeat sales framework, and we use the results to test for a random walk in asset prices. For eight large samples of housing transactions, representing essentially all house sales in Sweden during a 12-year period, we reject the hypothesis that house prices follow a r...

This article investigates the role of spatial pattern in residential outdoor water use and implications for the efficacy of non-price restrictions. Drawing on a spatially explicit dataset, the analysis characterizes latent neighborhood effects in households’ outdoor water use and how these effects vary during water restrictions. Results illustrate that spatial patterns in water use vary across ...

Spatio-temporal events are collected at high levels of detail (LoDs) in many phenomena. Both spatial and temporal characteristics of data can be expressed at different LoDs. Depending on the level of detail, different spatiotemporal patterns can be detected, and in some specific cases spatio-temporal patterns are just detected in some LoDs [1]. It is crucial to model spatio-temporal phenomena h...

Long-term observations of lake water level are essential to our understanding of the evolution of Tibetan lake system. CryoSat-2 radar altimetry data over the Tibetan Plateau (2010–2014, P2) is used to extend lake level measurements from ICESat laser altimetry (2003–2009, P1). This study evaluates the performance of CryoSat-2 data by comparing with gauge-based water levels that are calibrated b...

Prior studies evaluate the relative importance of the sources of value that financial analysts bring to the market based on the price impact of forecast revisions over the event time. We find that management earnings forecasts influence the timing and precision of analyst forecasts. More importantly, evidence suggests that prior studies’ finding of weaker (stronger) stock-price responses to for...