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<p>High-resolution soil moisture product is important for agriculture-related managements including irrigation. We have investigated the Change Detection (CD) method using Sentinel-1 data for 100 m resolution soil moisture retrieval and got a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) about 0.6 m<sup>3</sup>/m<sup>3</sup>. However... |
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</tr><tr><td>Index<sub>2 </sub>= SM<sub>min</sub> + (SM<sub>max </sub>- SM<sub>min</sub>) * Index<sub>1</sub></td> |
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</tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Different parameters were tested to train the Neural Network approach, the preliminary results show a correlation value compared with DISPATCH product about 0.71 over croplands, 0.73 over irrigated fields, and 0.65 over forests, considering Index1, Index2 and SMAP soil moisture. Wor... |
Histopathological Characteristics and Expression of CDV-NP Antigen in the Brain of Serologically Positive Spontaneously Infected Red Foxes (Vulpes Vulpes) In Western Serbia |
Abstract Canine distemper virus (CDV) is a worldwide distributed RNA virus that can cause severe disease in carnivore and non-carnivore species. Red foxes are highly susceptible and may act as a reservoir of the virus. As in other wild species, distemper in red foxes can manifest as acute, systemic and chronic nervous ... |
Introduction: Recently, pharmacotherapy has advanced extensively, but there are still many refractory diseases which cannot be solved fully by existing therapeutic agents. Therefore, alternative medicine and health foods are now attracting much attention, for example, lactoferrin (LF): a multifunctional glycoprotein. A... |
Abstract Methyl bromide has been widely used for weed control in polyethylene-mulched tomato production. With the phaseout of methyl bromide in the United States, an effective alternative is needed. Field experiments were conducted in 2007 and 2009 to determine if allyl isothiocyanate (ITC) would provide substantive we... |
Heat pipes are passive heat transfer devices crucial for systems on spacecraft; however, they can freeze when exposed to extreme cold temperatures. The research on freezing mechanisms on wicked surfaces, such as those found in heat pipes, is limited. Surface characteristics, including surface topography, have been foun... |
This paper presents a general microfabrication method for precision patterning of thin-film poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS). The method enables PDMS microstructures with controlled lateral dimensions and thickness on a silicon or glass substrate. Two applications based on this new method are discussed. First, a scanning ... |
The present invention substantially nitride semiconductor by on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer of the light emitting elements forming the n-side electrode with paper electrode formed in a diagonal direction, lowering the drive voltage and capable of reducing heat generation flip-chip nitride having a cross-sect... |
Extraction of accurate quantitative parameters to characterize water diffusion in complex porous media like brain tissue in neuroimaging is a challenging inverse problem, that depends on medium's structural and geometrical factors [1,3]. If the role of membranes is generally invoked, probe collisions with the insoluble... |
Abstract In response to a dramatic increase of illegal immigration in the European Union, in the fall of 2015 Latvia agreed to accept several hundreds of refugees on its soil. Nevertheless, Latvian society remains very sceptic about these plans, and reportedly demonstrates strong negative attitudes towards refugees. Ac... |
In this article, the authors suggest that current notions of advocacy in early childhood education should be expanded to include a view of young children as citizens. The authors ground their discussion in a how-to book project in Providence, Rhode Island, consider different concepts of children and citizenship, share ... |
The excimer laser‐assisted non‐occlusive anastomosis (ELANA) technique is a way of making an anastomosis of vessels without temporal occlusion that is used for cerebral revascularization. Currently, 10 mJ of laser energy is used during the ELANA procedure. We have recently demonstrated that increasing the laser energy ... |
There is a growing number of students enrolling in community colleges in the United States. Many of these students are looking to transfer credits earned from the community college to four-year institutions, while others are simply looking to enter into the skilled workforce. With the increase in general enrollment and... |
Despite the widespread use of hydraulic-actuation joysticks in mobile North American construction, mining and forestry vehicles, the biomechanical effects that joysticks have on their human operators has not been studied extensively. Using nine unskilled joystick operators and a laboratory mock-up with a commonly used ... |
Influence diagrams are compact representations of decision problems that are mathematically equivalent to decision trees. The authors present five important principles for structuring a decision as an influence diagram: 1) start at the value node and work back to the decision nodes; 2) draw the arcs in the direction th... |
Intermittent generation, such as wind and solar, are popularizing stochastic simulation of power grids. Stochastic forecasts of these uncertainties are typically characterized by their marginal distributions. However, dependencies between forecasts also influence the grid significantly, but their specification is not s... |
We show that very high-efficiency second- and third- harmonic conversions can be generated simultaneously in 1-D semiconductor photonic crystals that possess both chi(2) and chi(3) nonlinearities. This is theoretically demonstrated in a CdS-SiO2 photonic crystal. The total conversion efficiency can be as large as ~30% ... |
Three-color coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) represents non-degenerate four wave mixing that includes both non-resonant and resonant processes, the contributions of which depend upon how the molecular vibrational modes are being excited by the input laser pulses. The scattering signal due to resonant proces... |
This research is descriptive qualitative. Classical assumption test was conducted to determine the normality of the data obtained and multiple linear regression test. In addition, a hypothesis test was conducted which consisted of t test, F test and R2 test. The results of the multiple linear regression equation are as... |
BACKGROUND |
Results from randomized trials indicate that treatment with tamoxifen or chemotherapy for primary breast cancer reduces the risk for contralateral breast cancer. However, less is known about how long the risk is reduced and the impact of factors such as age and menopausal status. |
METHODS |
The study included 634 women with contralateral breast cancer (case patients) and 1158 women with unilateral breast cancer (control subjects) from the Women's Environment, Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study. The women were younger than age 55 when they were first diagnosed with breast cancer during 1985-1999. Rate... |
RESULTS |
Chemotherapy was associated with a lower risk for contralateral breast cancer (RR = 0.57, 95% CI = 0.42 to 0.75) than no chemotherapy. A statistically significant association between chemotherapy and reduced risk for contralateral breast cancer persisted up to 10 years after the first breast cancer diagnosis and was st... |
CONCLUSION |
The associations between chemotherapy and tamoxifen treatment and reduced risk for contralateral breast cancer appear to continue for 10 and 5 years, respectively, after the initial breast cancer is diagnosed. Ovarian suppression may have a role in the association between chemotherapy and reduced risk for contralateral... |
OBJECTIVES |
A measurement of cell DNA content would be highly useful in determining the malignant nature of thyroid tumours in cases without distinctive features such as metastases, capsule invasion or emboli. Abnormal cell ploidy can be recognized with flow cytometry, but it is not known whether such results have diagnostic value... |
METHODS |
Fifty unselected cold thyroid nodules were obtained from 50 consecutive patients (40 women, 10 men; age 18-80 years; mean 46) who underwent surgery within a 6 month period. Surrounding non-tumoural tissue was also obtained in 46 of them. Cell ploidy and the percentage of cells in each cell phase was determined with flo... |
RESULTS |
The pathologic diagnosis was carcinoma in 7 cases (papillary carcinoma 6, vesicular carcinoma 1) and benign adenomas in 43 (29 macrovesicular, 11 microvesicular, 3 oncocytal). All the non-tumoural tissue samples were diploid. All 7 carcinomas were diploid and 10 of the 43 benign adenomas were aneuploid (4 near-diploid,... |
CONCLUSION |
These findings confirm that cell ploidy measured by flow cytometry is of no diagnostic value in the thyroid gland. It was also revealed that aneuploidy in adenomas may be related to tissue rearrangements of undetermined prognostic significance.A mobile wireless sensor networks prediction algorithm based on clustering |
This paper researches the problem of energy efficient optimization for the measurement of wireless sensor nodes. Based on Clustering, the metric of network measurement coverage and communicate energy consumption are established. In this paper, we propose a Distributed Clustering Algorithm (DCA) which is based on the us... |
Previous experiments have shown that murine ocular lenses immersed in saline in vitro suffered microscopic physical damage (including cataractogenic changes) after exposure to pulsed microwaves under conditions in which the temperature rise was negligible. The suspected coupling mechanism is thermoelastic transduction ... |
Circus performance acts incorporate a variety of unique movements. Professional artists are often performing these acts in multiple shows a day and/or week on top of completing regular training of the acts. However, there is limited understanding of the mechanical demands of the acts. The emergence of wearable technolo... |
This paper makes a study on the design and development features of Self Organizing Sensor Networks for Automation and Process Monitoring. The research project `Multifunk' aims at development and prototypical implementation of software and hardware components for monitoring of industrial production processes using model... |
Some of the units in this manual describe techniques for the cloning, expression, and structural analysis of genes and proteins. Users of these protocols are assumed to have at least some introductory background in recombinant DNA technology (or are working with a collaborator who does); therefore, comprehensive covera... |
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recombinant DNAThermal analysis of horizontal earth-air heat exchangers in a subtropical climate: An experimental study |
The earth-air heat exchanger (EHX) has a promising potential to passively save the energy consumption of traditional air conditioning systems while maintaining a high degree of indoor comfort. The use of EHX systems for air conditioning in commercial and industrial settings offers several environmental benefits and is ... |
Abstract This paper presents an H ∞ controller synthesis method for discrete time fuzzy dynamic systems based on a piecewise smooth Lyapunov function. The basic idea of the approach is to design a piecewise linear state feedback control law and use a piecewise smooth Lyapunov function to establish the global stability ... |
Outcome measures are used to monitor the effects of interventions in clinical practice or in formal clinical trials. They may also be used to assess changes within populations either spontaneously or as a result of public‐health measures. They are used to monitor the course of illness as part of a management plan or, f... |
We have measured the spectral momentum density p(E,q} of graphite by (e,2e) spectroscopy for momentum parallel and perpendicular to the crystal e axis. In the independent-electron approximation, p(E, q}=go ~ U„(G) ~ 25(q —lt —G)5(E —E(t}}where the one-electron wave function is %„(rl=e'"' go U„(G)e'o' and G is a recipro... |
Listeriolysin O (LLO) is a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin that is an essential virulence factor of Listeria monocytogenes. LLO pore-forming activity is pH-dependent; it is active at acidic pH (<6), but not at neutral pH. In contrast to other pH-dependent toxins, we have determined that LLO pore-forming activity is con... |
To synthesize studies that use structural equation modeling (SEM), researchers usually use Pearson correlations (univariate r), Fisher z scores (univariate z), or generalized least squares (GLS) to combine the correlation matrices. The pooled correlation matrix is then analyzed by the use of SEM. Questionable inference... |
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