The combined multi-view photogrammetric retrieval of cloud-top height (CTH) from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) and the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) is discussed. Although ASTER was designed mainly for land applications, the synergistic use of MISR and ASTER is shown to be valuable for 3D cloud analysis. A new cloud-adapted matching al...

| We introduce an approach for obtaining dense contour maps of objects, which is based on the combination of the images of two or more colour cameras. As with all stereo techniques corresponding points in the image planes of the cameras, i. e. pixels illuminated by a certain point on the object, must be identiied before the distance between the cameras and the object point is computed by triang...

Metallic wires can discriminate light polarization due to strong absorption of electric fields oscillating in parallel to wires. Here, we explore polarization-based biosensing of DNA hybridization in situ by employing metal target-conjugated nanoparticles to form a wire-grid polarizer (WGP) as complementary DNA strands hybridize. Experimental results using gold nanoparticles of 15 nm diameter t...

one of the greatest philosophers of western tradition, spinoza, in ethics, explained the nature of passions and presented some cures for them. george eliot, a great novelist in the nineteenth century and the translator of spinoza’s works, was strongly influenced by spinoza’s philosophy and of course in some cases surpassed him. in this essay, i try to explain that although in the case of cures ...

recent advances in life-sustaining treatments and technologies, have given rise to newly-emerged, critical and sometimes, controversial questions regarding different aspects of end-of-life decision-making and care. since religious values are among the most influential factors in these decisions, the present study aimed to examine the islamic scholars' views on end-of-life care. a structured int...

The National Outlook Movement (Millî Görüş), a prominent Turkish-Islamist movement which previously held strong anti-Western views, moderated its views towards the West in 1990s. With an examination of Millî Görüş documents from 1973 to 1995, this study sheds light on dynamics shift view and argues that one aspect ‘tilt’ was geopolitical realities – mainly collapse USSR rise US hegemony. While ...

A new leptodirine leiodid beetle species, Pholeuonopsis (Pholeuonopsis) sljivovicensis sp. n., from a cave in western Serbia is described and diagnosed. The views of both male and female genitalia and other taxonomically important characters are imaged. The new species is clearly distinct from the closest relatives. It probably belongs to an old phyletic lineage of Mesogeid origin, like other k...