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Applications of controlled surgery in dimension 4: Examples
The validity of Freedman's disk theorem is known to depend only on the
fundamental group. It was conjectured that it fails for nonabelian free
fundamental groups. If this were true then surgery theory would work in
dimension four. Recently, Krushkal and Lee proved a surprising result that
surgery theory works for a large special class of 4-manifolds with free
nonabelian fundamental groups. The goal of this paper is to show that this also
holds for other fundamental groups which are not known to be good, and that it
is best understood using controlled surgery theory of Pedersen--Quinn--Ranicki.
We consider some examples of 4-manifolds which have the fundamental group
either of a closed aspherical surface or of a 3-dimensional knot space. A more
general theorem is stated in the appendix
GIS and regional development: Examples of applications
The recent development of Geographic Information Technologies (GIT), such as GIS, Remote Sensing and Desktop Mapping gives to the technicians of landscape management and regional development areas, access to a new powerful set of tools with an high potential for spatial analysis. Our project's ambition is to confirm that GIT can be useful tools for the definition and management of development policies. The ability of GIT to analyse geographical information (more or less 80 to 90% of the overall information that exists can be georeferenced) will create conditions to establish a model for economical development and with the support of this model decisions can be more accurate. By doing so, we will encourage the use of GIS in the regional science field. The results that we already had achieved with our project push us in front. That's why it is important to present them. In order to gather more people for this area. This paper will resume the activities and the major conclusions of some projects being developed since 1996 with the main purpose of establishing a theoretical background and create sample methodologies to support economic development through the use of GIS.
The duality diagram in data analysis: Examples of modern applications
Today's data-heavy research environment requires the integration of different
sources of information into structured data sets that can not be analyzed as
simple matrices. We introduce an old technique, known in the European data
analyses circles as the Duality Diagram Approach, put to new uses through the
use of a variety of metrics and ways of combining different diagrams together.
This issue of the Annals of Applied Statistics contains contemporary examples
of how this approach provides solutions to hard problems in data integration.
We present here the genesis of the technique and how it can be seen as a
precursor of the modern kernel based approaches.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS408 the Annals of
Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
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