Size depends upon the overall quantity of matter that ecosystems process, whereas the organization of flows deals with the topological architecture of matter exchanges (the flows).
A convenient representation of the ecosystem as a network of flows (matter, energy) is given as fundamental tool from which one can compute the main components of ascendency: size and organization of flows.
It is interesting to note that even if the organization of flows follows a simple iterative scheme, it leads to a complex and rich structure, which is not strictly hierarchical since it mixes different levels of flows consisting of different orders of magnitude.
Broad distribution of flows have already been observed at the inter-urban level [14], but it is the first time that we observe this empirically at an intra-urban level showing that, in agreement with other studies (for Madrid [15] and for Portland, Oregon [1]), the movement patterns in large cities exhibit an heterogeneous organization of flows.
According to the process of emergent measures in URT system, the organization of passenger flow can be divided into two steps evacuation and recovery.
The experimentally gained velocity fields provides information on the organization of coherent flow structures, which play a role in the wall shear rate and the mass transfer phenomenon at the impinged wall.
The local divergence measure was employed by the computation of the Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCSs), revealing the general organization of the flow according to the obtained separatrices, while the global Lyapunov exponents were used to characterize the attractors obtained under one or more bifurcation parameters.
The organization of optic flow processing in inferior parietal lobule is less well understood.
To analyze the organization of the flow in the absence of FAs, we plated the cells on poly-L-lysine-coated surface in the absence of serum and extracellular matrix proteins.
The role for each team member, as well as the organization of patient flow, is one of the major focuses of improvements using lean principles [ 29].
