A method is presented for applying a null-model analysis to the verification of the significance of the input neurons of Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP). This method was applied to a problem from ecology, namely the establishment ...

This report presents findings from Objective 2 of the FRST funded research programme titled: Enhancing the Spatial Dimensions of Tourism Yield. The overall aim of the programme is to examine tourism yield from a demand ...

A method is presented for extending the evolving connectionist system (ECoS) algorithm that allows it to explicitly represent and learn nominal-scale data without the need for an orthogonal or binary encoding scheme. ...

A new model of solute dispersion in porous media that avoids Fickian assumptions and that can be applied to variable drift velocities as in non-homogenous or geometrically constricted aquifers, is presented. A key feature ...

The ARGOS project has collected financial data from panels of kiwifruit orchards over several years. The Economics team of the project has conducted analysis of the data to investigate differences amongst the orchards ...

Shadows occurring in outdoor scenes can have a significant impact on the content within captured images. In object tracking applications they can grossly extend the apparent shape of an object due to the reduction in ...

Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS) have many advantages over others type of sensors for measuring strain or micro-displacement. This paper introduces a new configuration of Bragg gratings within an optical fibre to improve strain ...

Both integral equation and differential equation methods enable modelling moisture content sensors in heterogeneous materials, although integral equation methods provide better computational efficiency when inverting ...

Links between trade and the environment have aroused considerable interest, both in terms of the impact of trade liberalisation on the environment, and also the impact of environmental policy on production and trade. A key ...

It is currently proposed that there are two species of honeydew-producing sooty beech scale insects (Ultracoelostoma spp.) in New Zealand. It is thought that U. brittini lives exclusively on trunks of southern beech (Nothofagus ...