Based on recent work, I will give a nontechnical brief review of a powerful quantitative concept in biology, adaptive landscape, initially proposed by S. Wright over 70 years ago, reintroduced by one of the founders of molecular biology and by others in different biological contexts, but apparently forgotten by modern biologists for many years. Nevertheless, this concept finds an increasingly i...

In this project, image processing techniques are used to develop basic understanding on video recording taken by vehicle’s front-view camera. By post processing on the video recording, the computer is able to extract road sign and traffic light information, and make prediction on how fast the vehicle is moving and steering. The road sign recognition is able to identify most of the signs in the ...

NM-landscapes have been recently introduced as a class of tunable rugged models. They are a subset of the general interaction models where all the interactions are of order less or equal M . The Boltzmann distribution has been extensively applied in single-objective evolutionary algorithms to implement selection and study the theoretical properties of model-building algorithms. In this paper we...

OF all medical books, the De humani corporisfabrica of Andreas Vesalius in its two folio editions of 1543 and 1555 has probably been the object of most study and attention. Even today when its difficult late Latin and the absence of a full English translation make it inaccessible to all but a small number of scholars, its woodcut illustrations are still familiar to any one with the slightest in...

In this scenario, a generic meta-stable deSitter vacuum site in the cosmic landscape in string theory has a very short lifetime. Typically, the smaller is the vacuum energy of a meta-stable site, the longer is its lifetime. This view of the landscape can provide a qualitative dynamical explanation why the dark energy of our universe is so small. The argument for this scenario is based on resona...