Design in nature : learning from trees by Mattheck, C. (Claus), 1947- Publication date 1998 Topics Biomechanics, Trees -- Mechanical properties Publisher Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag Collection ...

Abstract: Rapidly-exploring random tree star (RRT*) has attracted intensive attention in track planning due to its asymptotic optimal properties. However, the RRT* algorithm plans costly trajectory ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Abstract: The decoding of binary random linear codes for packet erasures relies on receivers collecting a sufficient number of error-free coded packets for the reconstruction of a transmitted message.