this study is a contribution to assess the high resolution digital aerial imagery for semi-automatic analysis of tree species identification. to maximize the benefit of such data, the object-based classification was conducted in a mixed forest plantation. two subsets of an ultracam d image were geometrically corrected using aero-triangulation method. some appropriate transformations were perfor...

(2011) Use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for examining healthcare professionals' assessments of the relative importance of risk factors for falls in community-dwelling older people. The Nottingham ePrints service makes this work by researchers of the University of Nottingham available open access under the following conditions. · To the extent reasonable and practicable the material m...

Teachers form the backbone of any educational system, hence selecting qualified candidates is very crucial. In Malaysia, the decision making in the selection process involves a few stages: Initial filtering through academic achievement, taking entry examination and going through an interview session. The last stage is the most challenging since it highly depends on human judgment. Therefore, th...

Students with disabilities who are served in restrictive educational settings often display inappropriate behavior that serves to preclude their integration into the mainstream. One approach to managing difficult behavior is a levels system (Smith & Farrell, 1993), which typically consists of a hierarchy of levels in which students must meet increasingly demanding standards of behavior before a...

Introduction: Advances in human health and welfare ultimately depend on research projects. Healthcare research can provide important information about disease trends and risk factors, outcomes of treatment or public health interventions, functional abilities, patterns of care, and health care costs and use. Teaching healthcare research is done to make change and meet human needs in the communit...

We study the class coNPMV of complements of NPMV functions. Though defined symmetrically to NPMV, this class exhibits very different properties. We clarify the complexity of coNPMV by showing that it is essentially the same as that of NPMVNP. Complete functions for coNPMV are exhibited and central complexity-theoretic properties of this class are studied. We show that computing maximum satisfyi...

introductionpopulation data is easily accessible and shows the relationship between city size and other socio-economic factors in the city indirectly, so many geographers using this type of data to gain an understanding of the structure of the cities network and distribution of the people in the different levels of urban hierarchy. in fact, urban hierarchy is the best way of space organization ...

We show how to formalize approximate counting via hash functions in subsystems of bounded arithmetic, using variants of the weak pigeonhole principle. We discuss several applications, including a proof of the tournament principle, and an improvement on the known relationship of the collapse of the bounded arithmetic hierarchy to the collapse of the polynomial-time hierarchy.

The bounded arithmetic theory S 2 is nitely axiomatized if and only if the polynomial hierarchy provably collapses. If T i 2 equals S i+1 2 then T i 2 is equal to S 2 and proves that the polynomial time hierarchy collapses to p i+3 , and, in fact, to the Boolean hierarchy over p i+2 and to p i+1 =poly .