Abstract Dimension stone is natural rock prepared for building use. It rapidly colonised by microorganisms that cause discoloration (mainly cyanobacteria, algae and fungi) structural damage. Microbial mobilisation of ions leads to new superficial or internal deposits, weakening the structure. Cyanobacteria fungi may penetrate, filling pores creating spaces. Lichens, fungus/phototroph associatio...

let r be a commutative noetherian ring. we study the behavior of injectiveand at dimension of r-modules under the functors homr(-,-) and -×r-.

We examine the so-called rigorous support vector machine (RSVM) approach proposed by Vapnik (1998). The formulation of RSVM is derived by explicitly implementing the structural risk minimization principle with a parameter H used to directly control the VC dimension of the set of separating hyperplanes. By optimizing the dual problem, RSVM finds the optimal separating hyperplane from a set of fu...

The geometric structural complexity of spatial objects does not render an intuitive distance metric on the data space that measures spatial proximity. However, such a metric provides a formal basis for analytical work in transformation-based multidimensional spatial access methods, including locality preservation of the underlying transformation and distance-based spatial queries. We study the ...

In this paper, we give and prove lower bounds of the VC-dimension of the univariate decision tree hypothesis class. The VC-dimension of the univariate decision tree depends on the VC-dimension values of its subtrees and the number of inputs. In our previous work (Aslan et al., 2009), we proposed a search algorithm that calculates the VC-dimension of univariate decision trees exhaustively. Using...

The problem of distinguishing density-independent (DI) from density-dependent (DD) demographic time series is important for understanding the mechanisms that regulate populations of animals and plants. We address this problem in a novel way by means of Statistical Learning Theory. First, we estimate the VC-dimensions of the best known nonlinear ecological models through the methodology proposed...

To validate our edge selection strategy, we present here the rate distortion curves obtained using different edge selection metrics: Hausdorff distance wgc, texture seam deviation wt and the combination that we propose wgc + wt . We use the multiscale SSIM metric presented in the paper to evaluate the quality of the obtained levels of detail (the texture map is kept in its highest resolution fo...

Given a probability measure P and a reference measure μ, one is often interested in the minimum μ-measure set with P -measure at least α. Minimum volume sets of this type summarize the regions of greatest probability mass of P , and are useful for detecting anomalies and constructing confidence regions. This paper addresses the problem of estimating minimum volume sets based on independent samp...

This paper investigates the spatial heterogeneity of three landscapes along an altitudinal gradient and different human land use. The main aim was the identification of appropriate landscape indicators using different extents. ASTER image was used to create a land cover map consisting of three landscapes which differed in altitude and land use. A number of landscape metrics quantifying patch co...

Background and Objectives: Health human resources is the major asset of the health system. The status of human resources in upstream and regulatory health organizations can exert high impact on the effectiveness of health policies and the performance of health system. This study, hence, was designed to explore the possible area of human resource damage to the employees of the Iranian Ministry o...