Visualizing large data by the SOM and GTM methods – what are we obtaining? Anna Bartkowiak University of Wrocław, Institute of Computer Science, Przesmyckiego 20, Wrocław 51–151, PL Abstract We consider the visualization of multivariate data yielded by the SOM and the GTM methods. Special emphasis is put on the position of outliers and extreme points. When evaluating four data sets, it is found...

The objective of this analysis was to identify topographic and bioclimatic factors that predict occurrence of forest and grassland patches within tropical montane forest-grassland mosaics. We further investigated whether interactions between topography and bioclimate are important in determining vegetation pattern, and assessed the role of spatial scale in determining the relative importance of...

The aim of our study was to reveal biogeographical patterns in the native vascular flora of Iceland and to define ecological factors responsible for these patterns. We analysed dataset of more than 500,000 records containing information on the occurrence of vascular plants. Analysis of ecological factors included climatic (derived from WORLDCLIM data), topographic (calculated from digital eleva...

Malaria is endemic to Bangladesh. In this longitudinal study, we used hydrologic, topographic, and socioeconomic risk factors to explain single and multiple malaria infections at individual and household levels. Malaria incidence was determined for 1,634 households in 54 villages in 2009 and 2010. During the entire study period 21.8% of households accounted for all (n = 497) malaria cases detec...

abiotic factors, as topographic and physicochemical properties of soil, are the most important effective factor on vegetation in rangeland ecosystems which have the most important performances to forming and succession of plant vegetation. ecologic management of rangelands can be desired by better understanding of these effective factors. then, rangeland of javaherdeh (ramsar) in the northern a...

In this paper, we present the system developed by GTMUVigo team for the Multimedia Person Discovery in Broadcast TV task at MediaEval 2016. The proposed approach consists in a novel strategy for person discovery which is not based on speaker and face diarisation as in previous works. In this system, the task is approached as a person recognition problem: there is an enrolment stage, where the v...

this study was carried out in sorkhdeh rangeland in semnan province in order to determine the ecological species groups and their relationships with environmental factors as a tool for better management. vegetation sampling was performed in 230 plots under equal random classification method and soil samples were taken in 0-15 depth. climatic and topographic data were extracted by overlaying sam...

Ce papier présente un modèle génératif et son estimation permettant la visualisation de données binaires. Notre approche est basée sur un modèle de mélange de lois de Bernoulli par blocs et les cartes de Kohonen probabilistes. La méthode obtenue se montre à la fois parcimonieuse et pertinente en pratique.