Dominance is a social relation between a subordinate animal and the dominant to which it submits. Animal groups seem regularly to form dominance hierarchies in which dominance relations are transitive and stable, but comparative studies are rare. Dominance hierarchies can be formalized as social networks, with arrows (directed edges) pointing from dominant animals (nodes) to subordinates. Using...

The analytical discussion of acousmatic music can benefit from being based on spatial concepts, and this article aims to provide a framework for investigation. A personal experience of soundscape listening is the starting point, and uncovers basic ideas relating to the disposition and behaviour of sounding content, and listening strategy. This enables the opening out of the discussion to includ...

This article explores an alternative state space representation for ARIMA models to that usually advocated. The alternative representation has minimal state order. More importantly, it has more convenient Kalman filter convergence properties. This convergence reveals the concrete connection between classical infinite sample representations based on lag polynomials and the recursive Kalman filte...

We propose a topological version of four-dimensional (Euclidean) Einstein gravity, in which anti-self-dual 2-forms and an SU(2) connection are used as fundamental fields. The theory describes the moduli space of conformally self-dual Einstein manifolds. In the presence of a cosmological constant, we evaluate the index of the elliptic complex associated with the moduli space. e-mail: [email protected]...

We study umbilic (space-like) submanifolds of pseudo-Riemannian space forms, then define totally semi-umbilic space-like submanifold of pseudo Euclidean space and relate this notion to umbilicity. Finally we give characterization of total semi-umbilicity for space-like submanifolds contained in pseudo sphere or pseudo hyperbolic space or the light cone.A pseudo-Riemannian submanifold M in (a...

we show that the character space of the vector-valued lipschitz algebra $lip^{alpha}(x, e)$ of order $alpha$ is homeomorphic to the cartesian product $xtimes m_e$ in the product topology, where $x$ is a compact metric space and $e$ is a unital commutative banach algebra. we also characterize the form of each character on $lip^{alpha}(x, e)$. by appealing to the injective tensor product, we then...