Message passing using types is the foundation of system communication:  Messages are the unit of communication  Types enable secure communication Actors ActorScript™ is a general purpose programming language for implementing iAdaptive TM concurrency that manages resources and demand. It is differentiated from previous languages by the following:  Universality o Ability to directly specify ex...

The effect of spatial scale on spatial analysis has long, but sporadically, been recognized in human geography and more recently and acutely in landscape ecology. As the number of studies directly and systematically addressing scale effects is still limited, it remains unclear how results of different statistical analyses are affected by changing scale for different landscapes, or whether or no...

The paper investigated the application of MODIS data for mapping regional land cover at moderate resolutions (250 and 500 m), for regional conservation purposes. Land cover maps were generated for two major conservation areas (Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem—GYE, USA and the Pará State, Brazil) using MODIS data and decision tree classifications. The MODIS land cover products were evaluated using ...

remote sensing can be used as a powerful tool by using data from different sources and combine them for vegetation and land cover classification. pasture type classification provides key information for analysis of agricultural productivity, carbon accounting and biodiversity. the first data set that used in this study landsat tm (thematic mapper) optical image and the second envisat asar radar...

Monitoring o f coral reef bleaching has hitherto been based on regional-scale, in situ data. Larger-scale trends, however, must be determined using satellite-based observations. Using both a radiative transfer simulation and an analysis o f multitemporal Landsat TM images, the ability o f satellite remote sensing to detect and monitor coral reef bleaching is examined. The radiative transfer sim...

Recently, microcavities with anisotropic materials were shown to be able create bands non-zero local Berry curvature. The refractive index of the cavity layer is believed critical in opening an energy gap at tilted Dirac points. In this work, we show that anticrossing between a mode and Bragg can also realized within empty microcavity without any birefringent layer. Nondispersive are observed d...

A specially designed metallic E-shaped fractal-based perfect metamaterial absorber (PMA) with fairly wideband absorptivity in the K- and Ka-bands of microwave regime was investigated. The PMA top surface is comprised square-shaped split-ring resonators (SRRs) surrounded stated fractal design. analyzed range 20 - 30 GHz for normal oblique incidence waves. Both transverse electric (TE) magnetic (...

Tm-1, an inhibitor protein of Tomato mosaic virus RNA replication, contains two conserved domains: an uncharacterized domain at its N-terminus and a TIM-barrel-like domain at its C-terminus. The N-terminal domain of Tm-1 has an inhibitory activity and its three-dimensional structure has not been determined. Here, the crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction of the N-terminal domain of ...