Previous research is classified into four broad categories in this paper: the study of a university’s impact on the location choice of high technology facilities, the investigation of university impact on the spatial distribution of high technology production, the analysis of the spatial pattern of industrial research and development activities, and the modeling of local knowledge transfers ema...

In this study, I compared the physical elements of two Indonesian traditional houses between a Kaili tribe (Central Sulawesi) and a Bugis-Makassar tribe (South Sulawesi). If we viewed of the name, meaning and function from both traditional houses have similarities, namely the Souraja/Saoraja house (House of the King), however, observed more detail the physical elements of architecture also show...

The total ozone distribution in March 1997 showed very low values in the North Atlantic-European region, even lower than in the years before. A spatial pattern correlation between the zonally asymmetric part of total ozone and that of the 300 hPa surface geopotential of the Northern Hemisphere was applied to examine the spatial structure of the low ozone values and its dynamic dependence. A tre...

Small changes in spatial pattern on a landscape can sometimes produce dramatic ecological responses. Such transition ranges are associated with critical environmental conditions such as tree density. As the landscape becomes dissected into smaller patches of trees, landscape connectivity may suddenly become disrupted, which may have important consequences for the behaviors of forest fire, i.e.,...

An articulatory study was conducted to explore effects of prosodic boundary and syllable structure on temporal realizations of /ma/ in C♯V vs. ♯CV in Korean (where ‘♯’ denotes an Intonational Phrase or a Word boundary). The vocalic gesture underwent boundary-induced lengthening more in C♯V than in ♯CV, implying that the boundary effect is largely localized to the initial element whether consona...

This paper discusses a prototype of a temporal pattern predictor, which was built on specifications derived from the descriptions of the “Ergotrix” temporal memory network in Valentino Braitenberg’s “Vehicles” (Braitenberg, 1984). The prototype was developed as a component for a control architecture for virtual characters.

Let N , N1 and N2 be point processes such that N1 is obtained from N by homogeneous independent thinning and N2 = N −N1. We give a new elementary proof that N1 and N2 are independent if and only if N is a Poisson point process. We present some applications of this result to test if a homogeneous point process is a Poisson point process.

To process a spatiotemporal pattern, a short-term memory (STM) is needed to maintain the pattern over time. In general, a STM for storing a temporal sequence of input items should possess characteristics such as acting as a rst-in-rst-out buuer, storing multiple items of the same type, and encoding interval-invariant and rate-invariant representations of the input items. Some of these character...

Multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) has gained enormous popularity in the neuroimaging community over the past few years. At the group level, most MVPA studies adopt an "information based" approach in which the sign of the effect of individual subjects is discarded and a non-directional summary statistic is carried over to the second level. This is in contrast to a directional "activation based"...

(2) ε∆uε + f(uε) = 0, x ∈ Ω, Bu = 0, x ∈ ∂Ω, where ε > 0 is a small parameter, Ω is a smooth bounded domain in Rn, and Bu is an appropriate boundary condition. The connection of (1) and (2) are made by a typical technique called blowup method. Suppose that {uε} is a family of solutions of (2). The simplest setup of the blowup method is to choose Pε ∈ Ω, and define vε(y) = uε(εy + Pε), for y ∈ Ω...