The patterned branching in the Drosophila tracheal system is triggered by the FGF-like ligand Branchless that activates a receptor tyrosine kinase Breathless and the MAP kinase pathway. A single fusion cell at the tip of each fusion branch expresses the zinc-finger gene escargot, leads branch migration in a stereotypical pattern and contacts with another fusion cell to mediate fusion of the bra...

In this paper, fuzzy-based multisensor data fusion is studied and an iterative fuzzy classifier is proposed. Obtained results are given as a set of two maps: a thematic map, and a confidence map (a classification certainty map representing the degree of certainty in the thematic map). The application of this classifier using ERS-1/JERS-1 SAR composites is shown to very promising.

This study presents a novel version of the Visualization Induced Self-Organizing Map based on the application of a new fusion algorithm for summarizing the results of an ensemble of topology preserving mapping models. This algorithm is referred to as Weighted Voting Superposition (WeVoS). Its main feature is the preservation of the topology of the map, in order to obtain the most truthful visua...

In robotics, the key requirement for achieving autonomy is to provide robots with the ability to accurately map an environment and simultaneously localize themselves within that environment. This problem is referred to as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). In this research, a decentralized platform for SLAM with multiple robots has been developed. Single-robot SLAM is achieved throug...

the paper deals with special types of $l$-ordered sets, $l$-fuzzy complete lattices, and fuzzy directed complete posets.first, a theorem for constructing monotone maps is proved, a characterization for monotone maps on an $l$-fuzzy complete lattice is obtained, and it's proved that if $f$ is a monotone map on an $l$-fuzzy complete lattice $(p;e)$, then the least fixpoint of $f$ is meet of ...

One of the problems usually discussed in autonomous mobile robot navigation is how to build a map of the environment where the robot is navigating. In the case of indoor navigation, a suitable method to do this mapping is the fusion of the data that are gathered from the several sensors, which are mounted on the robot. Here, a mobile robot equipped just with range finding sensors has been suppo...

conclusions as an oral premedication, clonidine can reduce surgical blood loss in lumbar spine posterior fusion surgery, even at the same levels of mean arterial pressure (map) with the control group. its use can be studied in more complicated spine surgeries, such as scoliosis and spinal deformity surgeries. results there was no statistically significant difference between groups in age (p = 0...