Predicting surface deformations caused by underground mining is an issue of significance both for the safety of overlaying facilities and for economic purposes. There are many different models for predicting the impact of underground mining on the land surface. One of them is the Knothe model commonly used in Poland and in the world. The paper presents two methods of estimating Knothe model parameters uncertainty. The parallel application of two methods enables the mutual verification of the results obtained and the identification of the potential errors and their sources in the case of any discrepancies. The first method is based on the so-called law of propagation of uncertainty, which in essence is the approximation based on the first-order Taylor series expansion. The second presented method is based on the Monte Carlo simulation.
This article describes statistical evaluation of the computational model for precipitation forecast and proposes a method for uncertainty modelling of rainfall-runoff models in the Floreon+ system based on this evaluation. The Monte-Carlo simulation method is used for estimating possible river discharge and provides several confidence intervals that can support the decisions in operational disaster management. Experiments with other parameters of the model and their influence on final river discharge are also discussed.
The Weinstein transform satisfies some uncertainty principles similar to the Euclidean Fourier transform. A generalization and a variant of Cowling-Price theorem, Miyachi's theorem, Beurling's theorem, and Donoho-Stark's uncertainty principle are obtained for the Weinstein transform.
Let $X$ be a Banach space. We give characterizations of when ${\cal F}(Y,X)$ is a $u$-ideal in ${\cal W}(Y,X)$ for every Banach space $Y$ in terms of nets of finite rank operators approximating weakly compact operators. Similar characterizations are given for the cases when ${\cal F}(X,Y)$ is a $u$-ideal in ${\cal W}(X,Y)$ for every Banach space $Y$, when ${\cal F}(Y,X)$ is a $u$-ideal in ${\cal W}(Y,X^{**})$ for every Banach space $Y$, and when ${\cal F}(Y,X)$ is a $u$-ideal in ${\cal K}(Y,X^{**})$ for every Banach space $Y$.
We determined if mature ladybirds use colour to initially find suitable host plants. We also determined whether ladybird beetles are capable of associating characteristics such as colour with the presence of prey. Here, we show that the multicoloured Asian ladybird beetle, Harmonia axyridis, has a differential response to yellow compared to green colours. Naive ladybirds, of both sexes, make significantly more visits and spend more time on yellow vs. green coloured pillars. After pairing yellow and green colours with the presence or absence of aphid prey, ladybirds alter their foraging behaviour. Beetles conditioned to having food on both pillar colours exhibited the same responses as naive beetles, while beetles conditioned to only yellow or green pillars did not exhibit a preference for visiting or spending time on different colours. However, there was a trend towards females spending more time on pillar colours on which they received reinforcement, and males spending more time foraging on colours opposite to that which they were reinforced. Thus, H. axyridis is capable of responding to cues such as colour, and its foraging behaviour can be altered as a result of prior experience.
This study aims to articulate and compare the structure, presuppositions and implications of two paradigmatic sceptical arguments, i.e. arguments from underdetermination of scientific theories by observational data (UA) and Cartesian-style arguments (CA) invoking sceptical scenarios of severe cognitive dislocation. Although salient analogies between them may prompt one to think that a unified diagnosis of what is amiss with them is called for, it will be argued that this may be a false hope, if those analogies do not underwrite a complete homology. That said, possible parallels of one promising anti-sceptical exposure of CA are pointed out for the case of UA, which conspire together to render the problem of underdetermination less threatening than it could at first appear., Tato studie si klade za cíl artikulovat a porovnávat strukturu, předpoklady a implikace dvou paradigmatických skeptických argumentů, tj. Argumentů z podceňování vědeckých teorií pozorovacími daty ( UA ) a argumenty kartézského stylu ( CA ), které vyvolávají skeptické scénáře těžké kognitivní dislokace. Ačkoli výrazné analogie mezi nimi mohou vést k tomu, aby si někdo myslel, že je požadována jednotná diagnóza toho, co je s nimi v rozporu, bude to argumentovat, že to může být falešná naděje, pokud tyto analogie nepodléhají úplné homologii. To znamená, že případné paralely jedné slibné antiseptické expozice CA jsou poukazovány na případ UA, které spolu splynou k tomu, že problém nedostatečného určení je méně ohrožující, než by se mohlo na první pohled zdát., and Ladislav Koreň