An advanced SAR interferometric analysis has been combined with a methodology for the automatic classification of radar reflectors phase histories to interpret slope-failure kinematics and trend of displacements of slow-moving landslides. To accomplish this goal, the large dataset of radar images, acquired in more than 20 years by the two European Space Agency (ESA) missions ERS-1/2 and ENVISAT...

In this letter, a technique for mapping the thermal infrared radiation variation within land cover using both a classification map and a thermal infrared image is proposed. Furthermore, a technique to effectively calculate the average thermal radiance for each land cover from Thematic Mapper (TM)-type sensors, which aquire high resolution of visible and near-infrared images and low resolution o...

One of the most crucial problem areas of information science concerns the identification of what documents are 'about'. This paper seeks to define the notion of 'aboutness ' within the context of recent work in text linguistics. It describes, first, the essential communicational structures of sentences, paragraphs and texts in terms of theme, rheme and thematic progression, connectors of clause...

Patients experience extreme difficulty when facing an intractable genetic disease. Herein, we examine the experiences of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in facing and learning about their disease. A total of seven patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (age range: 20-48) participated. We conducted in-depth interviews with them about how they learned of their disease and how their f...

membrane/ protein trafficking in the secretory/ biosynthetic and endocytic pathways is mediated by vesicles. vesicle trafficking in eukaryotes is regulated by a class of small monomeric gtpases the rab protein family. rab proteins represent the largest branch of the ras superfamily gtpases, and have been concerned in a variety of intracellular vesicle trafficking and different intracellular sig...

different world views and philosophies in defining development problems and their solutions derive currently from different disciplines. they refer in many respects to the principle of cause-effect as a fundamental relationship between phenomena. the history of differing values and attitudes presented in management and design indicates the importance of this relationship. this sort of knowledge...