Termites are pallid, secretive creatures colloquially known as 'white ants'. Although termites and ants are very different types of insect, the confusion is understandable as they share some remarkable similarities. Both follow trails, live in nests or colonies in the ground, in timber and in trees and sometimes invade buildings. Nests are generally under the control of a single queen, and othe...

Validation is a process that determines the fitness of an assay, which has been properly developed, 6 optimised and standardised, for an intended purpose. Validation 8 includes estimates of the analytical and diagnostic performance 10 characteristics of a test. In the context of this chapter, an assay that 12 has completed the first three stages of the validation pathway (see 14 Figure 1 below)...

In this section, we present a three-organization example to illustrate more about how the A and the C matrices can differ. Recall our simple example from Section IG (see Figure 1). There are two organizations, i = 1, 2, each of which has a 50% stake in the other organization. The associated crossholdings matrix C and the dependency matrix A are as follows. (Recall that Ĉii is equal to 1 minus t...

People base their view of nature on a new device that is both revolutionary and pervasive. Because we humans built the device, we can comprehend it. Consequently, the new technology often further serves humans as a well-understood analog of nature. In the present context, some scientists claim that the basic particle of the universe is information; that information is not an abstraction of real...

Recall #Questions dec rand node Figure 1: Corrected Figure 12(b): #Questions vs Recall for Places We discovered that there was a duplicate figure in our paper. We accidentally put Figure 13(b) for Figure 12(b). We have provided the correct Figure 12(b) above (See Figure 1). Figure 1 plots the recall of various strategies as a function of the number of questions asked for Places dataset. There w...

Fractal Dimension (FD) is an essential feature of fractal geometry that characterizes the surface roughness of complex or irritated objects. Though, fractal dimension gradually established its importance in the area of image processing by means of image segmentation, Pattern recognition, texture and medical signal analysis and many more. A number of algorithms for estimation of fractal dimensio...

A very important property of a deterministic self-similar set is that its Hausdorff dimension and upper box-counting dimension coincide. This paper considers the random case. We show that for a random self-similar set, its Hausdorff dimension and upper box-counting dimension are equal a.s.

ABSTARCTFractal theory is used in image processing. The dimension of complex objects in nature is calculated by Fractal Dimension. Fractal Dimension is used in shape classification, graphic analysis in many fields, texture segmentation. FD‟s can be used to aid in several data mining tasks. Mainly box counting method is used to calculate the FD of an image. In this paper various methods used to ...

Validation is a process that determines the fitness of an assay, which has been properly developed, optimised and standardised, for an intended purpose. Validation includes estimates of the analytical and diagnostic performance characteristics of a test. In the context of this chapter, an assay that has completed the first three stages of the validation pathway (see Figure 1 below), including p...

This paper is concerned with the construction of intervals of computably enumerable degrees in which the lattice M5 (see Figure 1) cannot be embedded. Actually, we construct intervals I of computably enumerable degrees without any weak critical triples (this implies that M5 cannot be embedded in I, see Section 2). Our strongest result is that there is a low2 computably enumerable degree e such ...