Among many organisms, offspring are constrained to occur at sites adjacent to their parents. This applies to plants and animals with limited dispersal ability, to colonies of microbes in biofilms, and to other genetically heterogeneous aggregates of cells, such as cancerous tumors. The spatial structure of such populations leads to greater relatedness among proximate individuals while increasin...

Land surface temperature and fractional vegetation coverage (LST/FVC) space is a classical model for estimating evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and drought monitoring based on remote sensing. One of the key issues in its utilization is to determine its boundaries, i.e., the dry and wet edges. In this study, we revisited and compared three methods that were presented by Moran et al. (1994), L...

Evidence for synchronous fluctuations of spatially separated populations is ubiquitous in the literature, including accounts within and across taxa. Among the few mechanisms explaining this phenomenon is the Moran effect, whereby independent populations are synchronized by spatially correlated environmental disturbances. The body of research on the Moran effect predominantly assumes that enviro...

t d i e s n i f t m s u A new tool, for the simulation of N or C edited 3D-NOESY– SQC spectra using the complete relaxation matrix approach, has een developed and integrated in the program AURELIA. This ool should be particularly useful for the fast and reliable comuter assisted assignment of 3D-NOESY–HSQC spectra by comaring back-calculated and experimental spectra in an iterative rocess. Fold...

One of the significant advantages of particle methods is their capability of computing large material deformation without the difficulty of mesh distortion. Often the large deformation of a material is caused by shock loading, therefore accurate calculation of shock waves is important for particle methods. In this work we study the numerical properties of four major versions of the material poi...