Predicting the percent live cover of corals: An in situ remote sensing approach" (2006). [1] Percent reflectance of corals is perhaps the most important remotely sensed data that can be related to their biophysical properties. Because most of the biophysical variables of corals (i.e., pigment content, live cover and algal overgrowth) are related to their reflectance spectra, the analysis and in...

Corresponding Authors: Jian-xing Ma, MD, PhD. (To be contact) BSEB 328B, 941 Stanton L. Young Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73104-5020 Fax: (405) 271-3973; Telephone: (405) 271-4372 Email: [email protected] Zuguo Liu, MD, PhD Eye institute of Xiamen University, 168 Daxue Road, Xiamen, Fujian, 361005, China Fax: 86-592-2183761; Telephone: 86-592-2186901 Email: [email protected] Page 1 of 48 Dia...

Newer genetic lines of pigs are being used in indoor and outdoor production systems. The objectives of Exp. 1 were to describe the effects of the maternal sow line genotype, environment (indoor vs outdoor), and the genotype x environment interactions on blood hemoglobin (Hb), immunoglobulin G (IgG) concentrations, white blood cell (WBC) numbers, lymphocyte transformation/blastogenesis (LTA), na...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the use of 405 nm light for inhibiting the growth of selected species of dermatophytic and saprophytic fungi. BACKGROUND DATA The increasing incidence and resilience of dermatophytic fungal infections is a major issue, and alternative treatment methods are being sought. METHODS The sensitivity of the dermatophytic fungi Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton mentagrop...

A new experiment is presented for the measurement of single aerosol particle extinction efficiencies, Qext, combining cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS, λ = 405 nm) with a Bessel beam trap (λ = 532 nm) in tandem with phase function (PF) measurements. This approach allows direct measurements of the changing optical cross sections of individual aerosol particles over indefinite time-frames faci...

This report describes a crystallization method we developed for amorphous (a)-Si film by using 405-nm laser diodes (LDs). The proposed method has been used to fabricate bottom gate (BG) microcrystalline (μc)-Si TFTs for the first time. A μc-Si film with high crystallinity was produced and high-performance BG μc-Si TFTs with a field effect mobility of 3.6 cm2/Vs and a current on/off ratio exceed...

BACKGROUND Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is known to play a pivotal role in the development of endometriosis. This study was performed to investigate whether the VEGF gene 5'-untranslated region polymorphism is associated with susceptibility to advanced stage endometriosis. METHODS This study comprised 215 women with advanced stage endometriosis, 219 control women without endometr...

PURPOSE To explore whether the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) +405 G/C polymorphism confers susceptibility to breast cancer (BC) by conducting a meta-analysis. METHODS Publications addressing the association between the VEGF +405 G/C polymorphism and BC risk were selected from the PubMed, Embase and Google Scholar databases. Data were extracted from studies by three independent rev...

This paper investigates whether the skewness of firm fundamentals is informative about future firm performance and stock returns. We present two distinct preference-free theoretical models of firm fundamentals, both of which imply a positive relation between the skewness of firm fundamentals and expected stock return. Consistent with this implication, we show empirically that the skewness measu...