Practical applications for auditory virtual environments (AVEs) are ever increasing. The achievable quality of AVEs has reached a level, where realworld problems can often be solved in a convenient way by using AVEs, meaning e.g. less expensive or more flexible than a real-world solution. Nowadays, the quality of AVEs is often measured in terms of their technical capacity to approximate the phy...

Resumen.—Los transmisores satelitales y los aparatos con sistemas de posicionamiento geográfico frecuentemente agregan un peso substancial a las aves a las que se los sujetan. Los estudios sobre los efectos de estos instrumentos se han enfocado en medidas indirectas, mientras que la influencia directa del peso extra en el comportamiento pelágico es poco conocida. Empleamos localizadores geográf...

The origin of birds (Aves) is one of the great evolutionary transitions. Fossils show that many unique morphological features of modern birds, such as feathers, reduction in body size, and the semilunate carpal, long preceded the origin of clade Aves, but some may be unique to Aves, such as relative elongation of the forelimb. We study the evolution of body size and forelimb length across the p...

Studies comparing numbers of nocturnal migrants in flight with numbers of migrants at stopover sites have produced equivocal results. In 2003, we compared numbers of nocturnal migrants detected by radar to numbers of passerines observed at the Atlantic Bird Observatory in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. Numbers of nocturnal migrants detected by radar were positively correlated with numbers of...

Recently, two families of HSS-based iteration methods are constructed for solving the system of absolute value equations (AVEs), which is a class of non-differentiable NP-hard problems. In this study, we establish the Picard-CSCS iteration method and the nonlinear CSCS-like iteration method for AVEs involving the Toeplitz matrix. Then, we analyze the convergence of the Picard-CSCS iteration met...

The evolution of birds is thought to have begun in the Jurassic Period, with the earliest birds derived from theropod dinosaurs. Birds are categorized as a biological class, Aves. The earliest known species of class Aves is Archaeopteryx lithographica, from the Late Jurassic period, though Archaepteryx is not commonly considered to have been a true bird. Modern phylogenies place birds in the di...

A direct generalized Newton method is proposed for solving the NP-hard absolute value equation (AVE) Ax−|x| = b when the singular values of A exceed 1. A simple MATLAB implementation of the method solved 100 randomly generated 1000-dimensional AVEs to an accuracy of 10−6 in less than 10 seconds each. Similarly, AVEs corresponding to 100 randomly generated linear complementarity problems with 10...

Address for Correspondence/Yaz›şma Adresi: Dr. Sait Demirkol, GATA Kardiyoloji Bölümü, Etlik, Ankara-Türkiye Tel: +90 312 304 42 81 [email protected] Accepted Date/Kabul Tarihi: 11.09.2012 Available Online Date/Çevrimiçi Yayın Tarihi: 27.09.2012 ©Telif Hakk› 2012 AVES Yay›nc›l›k Ltd. Şti. Makale metnine www.anakarder.com web sayfas›ndan ulaş›labilir. ©Copyright 2012 by AVES Yay›nc›l›k Ltd....

The rapid growth of the Internet has made IP addresses a scarce resource. To get around this problem, today and in the foreseeable future, networks will be deployed with reusable-IP addresses (a.k.a. private-IP addresses) or IPv6 addresses. The Internet is therefore evolving into a collection of networks of heterogeneous address spaces. Such development jeopardizes the fundamental bi-directiona...

The success of ornithological studies often hinges on a researcher’s ability to capture individuals quickly and efficiently. Sometimes it is necessary to capture the same individual multiple times, as is the case in many metabolic, ecotoxicological, and immunocompetence studies. Several methods of capturing cavity-nesting birds at their nest boxes have been described. However, these methods pro...