Grid Technology has proven to be a suitable means for the efficient sharing of various resources within a well–defined community. The EC–funded projects LeGE–WG and e–LeGI have set out to apply this technology for technology enhanced learning services. Previously, the applicability of distributed skill maps for adaptive e–Learning within a grid network has been discussed. In this paper, we prop...

A method for building a statistical shape model of sulci of the human brain cortex is described. The model includes sulcal fundi that are defined on a spherical map of the cortex. The sulcal fundi are first extracted in a semi-automatic way using an extension of the fast marching method. They are then transformed to curves on the unit sphere via a conformal mapping method that maps each cortica...

The bidirectional reflectance distribution function has a four dimensional parameter space and such high dimensionality makes it impractical to use it directly in hardware rendering. When a BRDF has no analytical representation, common solutions to overcome this problem include expressing it as a sum of basis functions or factorizing it into several functions of smaller dimensions. This thesis ...

Understanding the results of a multi objective optimization process can be hard. Various visualization methods have been proposed previously, but the only consistently popular one is the 2D or 3D objective scatterplot, which cannot be extended to handle more than 3 objectives. Additionally, the visualization of high dimensional parameter spaces has traditionally been neglected. We propose a new...

zygophyllum atriplicoides is one of the important species of iran rangelands that has special importance owing to some properties like high distribution rate, coverage percentage, density, and plant biomass that make it possible to supply a part of forage needed by livestock during spring and winter as well as to avoid soil degradation against water and wind erosions. this research tries to stu...

Probability measures (quasi probability mass), given in the form of integrals of Wigner function over areas of the underlying phase space, give rise to operator valued probability measures (OVM). General construction methods of OVMs, are investigated in terms of geometric positive trace increasing maps (PTI), for general 1D domains, as well as 2D shapes e.g. circles, disks. Spectral properties ...

The paper provides a quantitative algebraic analysis of a BB’84-type quantum key distribution protocol. The analysis is done in an algebraic setting, where classical and quantum variables form a module for the quantale formed from the communication and quantum actions. The module-quantale pair is endowed with sup-maps that encode uncertainties of agents involved in the protocol, about the varia...

The repeated administration of methamphetamine (MAP) causes behavioral sensitization in animals. We previously reported that the high accumulation of MAP was observed in the MAP-sensitized animal brain, which suggested that this phenomenon is an important factor in the development or expression of behavioral sensitization. The purpose of the present study is to elucidate the MAP distribution in...