Land-cover and land-use changes are an important part of global change but determine as well livelihoods at local and regional level. The knowledge of change trajectories and possible future conditions is important for a sustainable development strategy. Further on, reliable scenarios with spatial explicit simulations are needed as planning tools for decision makers. This paper describes an exa...

A bimonthly study of temporal changes in abundance and growth of the tropical seagrass Thalassia hemprichii on intertidal reef flats was conducted in southern Taiwan from October 1995 to December 1996. Thalassia hemprichii showed a marked temporal pattern in percentage cover, shoot density, and specific growth rate. There were no significant differences in the variables of T. hemprichii between...

Bodymovement synchrony (i.e. rhythmic synchronization between the body movements of interacting partners) has been described by subjective impressions of skilled counselors and has been considered to reflect the depth of the client-counselor relationship. This study analyzed temporal changes in body movement synchrony through a video analysis of client-counselor dialogues in counseling sessions...

A measurement method of the three-dimensional electromagnetic articulograph system is presented to investigate the dynamic behavior of articulatory organs which can include lateral or rotational movements. To accurately represent the spatial pattern of the magnetic field, we use a multivariate B-spline function, which smoothly interpolates a given set of calibration data samples. The strength o...

(2011) Visual motion induces a forward prediction of spatial pattern. Current Biology, 21 (9). pp. 740-745. The Nottingham ePrints service makes this work by researchers of the University of Nottingham available open access under the following conditions. A note on versions: The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this ...

This paper presents a theoretical argument that the relationship between price differences and per capita demand differences across locations can be used as a cross-sectional test for the law of one price. Since the relationship should be statistically insignificant or very weak in an integrated economy, its strength can measure the extent of market integration. A sequence of crosssectional est...

Models of consumer behaviour based purely upon empirical relationships in data can perform well in the short-term, but often degrade rapidly with changing circumstances. Superior longer term performance can sometimes be attained by developing models for the deeper processes underlying the consumer behaviour. In this paper, we develop a random-effects point-process model for ATM (Automated Telle...

This paper shows an experimental trial on part-based online character recognition. The purpose of the trial is to evaluate the discrimination ability of parts of a handwriting character, that is, a temporal pattern showing a character. Each part is a temporal segment of the character and the character is decomposed into a set of parts. Those parts are then represented as a “bag-of-features”, wh...

Dynamic graph mining is the task of searching for subgraph patterns that capture the evolution of a dynamic graph. In this paper, we are interested in mining dynamic graphs in videos. A video can be regarded as a dynamic graph, whose evolution over time is represented by a series of plane graphs, one graph for each video frame. As such, subgraph patterns in this series may correspond to objects...

Lidar data are regularly used to characterize forest structures. In this study, we determine the effects of three lidar attributes (density, spacing, scanning angle) on the accuracy and the uncertainty of timber merchantable volume estimates of balsam fir stands (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) in eastern Canada. We used lidar point clouds to compute predictor variables of the merchantable volume in...