Most terrestrial ectotherms experience diurnal and seasonal variation in temperature. Because thermal performance curves are non-linear, mean performance can differ in fluctuating and constant thermal environments. However, time-dependent effects--effects of the order and duration of exposure to temperature--can also influence mean performance. We quantified the non-linear and time-dependent ef...

The notion of a generalized helix in R3, a curve making a constant angle with a fixed direction, can be generalized to higher dimensions in many ways. In [7] the same definition is proposed but in R. In [4] the definition is more restrictive: the fixed direction makes a constant angle with all the vectors of the Frenet frame. It is easy to check that this definition only works in the odd dimens...

Fast algorithm for joint near-optimal approximation of multiple polygonal curves is proposed. It is based on iterative reduced-search dynamic programming introduced earlier for the minproblem of a single polygonal curve. The proposed algorithm jointly optimizes the number of line segments allocated to the different individual curves, and the approximation of the curves by the given number of se...

Fast algorithm for joint near-optimal approximation of multiple polygonal curves is proposed. It is based on iterative reduced search dynamic programming introduced earlier for the minproblem of a single polygonal curve. The proposed algorithm jointly optimizes the number of line segments allocated to the different individual curves, and the approximation of the curves by the given number of se...