Shell length-frequencies were determined for samples of Dreissena rostriformis bugensis collected <2 m depth from Las Vegas Boat Harbor (LVBH), Callville Bay Marina (two samples, CBM-1 and CBM-2), and Lake Mead Marina (LMM) in the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead and Katherine Landing Marina (KLM) in the lower end of Lake Mohave within two months of initial discovery of D. rostriformis bugensis in La...

Objective: A chart review was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Medifast (MD) meal replacement (MR) plan in a Medifast Weight Control Center (MWCC) on body weight, body composition, and other health measures at 4, 12, 24 weeks, and final weight loss visit. Methods: Charts included adults aged 18 70 (n = 446) with a BMI ≥ 25 kg/m who attended one of three MWCCs and were following th...

Remotely sensed reflectance spectra may be biased by several intervening factors, and the biases are propagated into estimations of the fraction of vegetation cover (FVC) by algorithms based on a linear mixture model (LMM). The errors propagated in FVCs depend on the retrieval algorithm used, due to differences in the assumptions of the model as well as constraints employed in the algorithm. Th...

In acidified aluminium (Al) rich freshwater positively charged Al-species (Al(i)) are the key toxic components due to the accumulation in fish gills. As a countermeasure, liming is used to increase the pH and reduce the concentration of Al(i)-species; in particular low molecular mass (LMM) Al(i)-species by hydrolyses. However, very toxic high molecular mass (HMM) Al polymers can form in the uns...

Hyperspectral unmixing, which decomposes mixed pixels into the endmembers and corresponding abundances, is an important image process for further application of hyperspectral images (HSIs). Lately, unmixing problem has been solved using deep learning techniques, particularly autoencoders (AEs). However, majority them are based on simple linear mixing model (LMM), disregards spectral variability...

There are generally four recognized classes of japonica rice cultivars grown in the lower region of the Yangtze River valley. The geographical distribution of the four classes is latitude-dependent. Variation for heading date (HD) among 29 japonica rice cultivars grown in the lower region of the Yangtze River valley and belonging to the four classes was characterized, and their sensitivity to v...