A three-dimensional mathematical model is presented to describe volume changes in porous electrodes occurring during operation. Material conservation equations are used to derive governing relationships between electrode dimensions and porosity for deposition/precipitation, intercalation, and ionomer-based electrodes. By introducing a parameter, called the swelling coefficient, the relative mag...

PURPOSE To explore the potential relationship between optic disc haemorrhage, venous pulsation pressure (VPP), ocular perfusion pressures and visual field change in glaucomatous and glaucoma suspect eyes. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective observational study examined 155 open angle glaucoma or glaucoma suspect eyes from 78 patients over 5 years. Patients were followed with 3 monthly non-...

Regional hydrological modeling in ungauged regions has attracted growing attention in water resources research. The southern Tibetan Plateau often suffers from data scarcity in watershed hydrological simulation and water resources assessment. This hinders further research characterizing the water cycle and solving international water resource issues in the area. In this study, a multi-spatial d...

Climate change is likely to impact more severely on the poorer people of the world, because they are more exposed to the weather, because they are closer to the biophysical and experience limits of climate, and because their adaptive capacity is lower. Estimates of aggregated impacts necessarily make assumptions on the relative importance of sectors, countries and periods; we propose to make th...

The alarming rate of expansion of oil palm plantations in Southeast Asian countries in recent years is expected to have an impact on the environment and global climate change. This is due to the massive reduction of tropical rainforests and the use of large-scale burning for the clearing of land. Microwave remote sensing is a viable method for the monitoring of the large expanses of oil palm pl...

We present new lightcurve measurements of Pluto and Charon taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) High Resolution Camera (HRC) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The observations were collected from June 2002 to June 2003 at twelve distinct sub-earth longitudes over a range of solar phase angle 0.36-1.74 degrees – a larger range than previously measured. The new measurements of Plut...

Using 1km grid datasets representing monthly mean precipitation, monthly mean temperature, and dry matter production (DMP), we considered the regional plant production ability in Southeast and South Asia, and also employed pixel-by-pixel correlation analysis to assess the intensity of relation between climate factors and plant production. While annual DMP in South Asia was approximately less th...

Brain MR image requires analysis of complex data. In this article use of machine learning approaches together with the Change detection algorithms is aimed at identifying changes in sets of images or image sequences at different times. In other words it is the process of identifying the changes in a state of an object over time. The phenomena of change detection are used to detect the progress ...

Introduction: WH MRCA [1-4] examinations are usually performed during free breathing, and the Real-time Motion Correction (RMC) coefficient is important for obtaining good image quality. However, this coefficient differs in each patient, which may result in degradation of image quality. We have developed the Motion Pre-Analysis Method to determine the appropriate RMC coefficient before WH MRCA ...