BACKGROUND A simulation model that relies on satellite observations of vegetation cover from the Landsat 7 sensor and from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) was used to estimate net primary productivity (NPP) of forest stands at the Bartlett Experiment Forest (BEF) in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. RESULTS Net primary production (NPP) predicted from the NASA-CAS...

OBJECTIVE To investigate DNA fragmentation by using terminal deoxyribonucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling in relation to World Health Organization parameters and computer-aided sperm analysis (CASA) in sperm to determine the possibility of obtaining a correlation among CASA parameters, sperm morphology, and DNA fragmentation. DESIGN Sperm analysis according to World Health...

The smart home, ambient intelligence and ambient assisted living have been intensively researched for decades. Although rural areas are an important potential market, because they represent about 80% of the territory of the EU countries and around 125 million inhabitants, there is currently a lack of applicable AAL solutions. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of AAL in rural area...

This paper introduces a speech separation system as a front-end processing step for automatic speech recognition (ASR). It employs computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) to separate the target speech from the interference speech. Specifically, the mixed speech is preprocessed based on auditory peripheral model. Then a pitch tracking is conducted and the dominant pitch is used as a main cu...

This paper proposes a hybrid approach for cochannel speech segregation. HMM (hidden Markov model) is used to track the pitches of 2 talkers. The resulting pitch tracks are then enriched with the prominent pitch. The enriched tracks are correctly grouped using pitch continuity. Medium frame harmonics are used to extract the second pitch for frames with only one pitch deduced using the previous s...

The CASA (Carnegie-Ames-Stanford) ecosystem model has been used to estimate monthly carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems from 2000 to 2009, with global data inputs from NASA’s Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) vegetation cover mapping. Net primary production (NPP) flux for atmospheric carbon dioxide has varied slightly from year-to-year, but was predicted to have in...

Reproductive toxicity of 2-bromopropane (2BP), a substitute for ozone layer-depleting chloro-fluorocarbon, was found among the workers in an electronics factory in Korea in 1995. Furthermore the importance of testicular toxicity has been realized since the problem of endocrine disruptors arose all over the world, but manual methods must rely on subjective assessment. Recently, computer-assisted...

We are living in an increasingly information rich society. Geographical Information Systems now allow us to precisely tag information to specific features, objects and locations. The Internet is enabling much of this information to be accessed by a whole spectrum of users. At CASA we are attempting to push this technology towards a three-dimensional GIS, that works across the Internet and can r...

Pellegrino Musto, Antonietta Falcone, Grazia Sanpaolo, Carlo Bodenizza, Mario Carotenuto, Angelo Michele Carella Unit of Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza” Hospital S. Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

The impacts of implementing Effects Based Operations (EBO) on Course of Action (COA) development and evaluation will be significant. Because EBO focuses on producing effects from military activities, as opposed to the direct result of attacking targets, there is an opportunity to develop a significantly higher number of COAs that achieve the desired effects. Consequently, EBO planning will sign...