By going to the root of complexity I show that it can be simplified only if apparent. The true complexity arising from the peculiarities of the laws governing the interaction among n components of a "natural" system and, as well, from the "topology" of the latter requires to deeply re-think the approach to the design: operative framework, expectations, methods, evaluation. Complexity leads also...

Feeding habits of Caspian marine shad Alosa braschnikowii (Borodin, 1904), inhabiting in the western part of Caspian Sea such as prey spectrum and seasonal dynamics have been studied. As in other parts of Caspian Sea, throughout the year, the main hunt of Caspian marine shad constituted kilkas, gobies and shrimps while other groups of zoobenthos were represented in a lesser extent. Importance o...

Nowadays there is a significant increase of the incidence of left-handedness and sinistrality among schoolchildren. They demonstrate a large number of left-sided motor and sensory preferences which are considered as external markers of functional hemispheric asymmetry of the brain. The purposes of this study are to investigate gender peculiarities and specificity of age-related dynamics of late...

The study of biological networks, their analysis and modeling are important tasks in life sciences today. Most biological networks are still far from being complete and they are often difficult to interpret due to the complexity of relationships and the peculiarities of the data. This worksheet describes major types of biological networks and useful public databases that contain biological netw...

In this paper we report on the development of a Modern Greek large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition system. We discuss lexical modelling with respect to pronuciation generation and examine its effects on word accuracies. Peculiarities of Modern Greek as a highly inflectional language and their challenges for speech recognition are addressed.

The infrared and Raman spectra of the two hydrates of strontium oxalate, SrC2O4⋅H2O and SrC2O4⋅2H2O, were recorded and discussed on the basis of their structural peculiarities and in comparison with the spectra of the related calcium oxalates and other previously investigated metallic oxalates.

As e-Voting gains more importance while practicable solutions are being implemented, more questions arise concerning alternative possibilities for a secure and feasible authentication. The specific peculiarities of secure authentication to a system are various and for a sensitive area like e-Voting also challenging. In this paper we evaluate biometric systems in order to prove their capabilitie...

Efficient use and high output of any supercomputer depends on a great number of factors. The problem of controlling granted resource utilization is one of those, and becomes especially noticeable in conditions of concurrent work of many user projects. It is important to provide users with detailed information on peculiarities of their executed jobs. At the same time it is important to provide p...