The benefits and services of urban forests are becoming increasingly well documented, with carbon storage being the main focus attention. Recent efforts in remote sensing have incorporated additional data such as LiDAR but been limited to sections an area or only certain species. Existing models not generalizable remaining unmeasured trees. To make a individual tree model, we used metrics from ...

The objectives of this study are to evaluate landscape-scale fuel and terrain controls on fire rate spread (ROS) estimates derived from repetitive airborne thermal infrared (ATIR) imagery sequences collected during the 2017 Thomas Detwiler extreme wildfire events in California. Environmental covariate data were prefire National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) orthoimagery USGS digital elevat...

Neurology India | September 2006 | Vol 54 | Issue 3 246 CMYK Neurodegenerative diseases with known neuropathologies provide a natural laboratory for the study of functional neural circuitry. Systematic cognitive probing of diseases of differing neuropathology offers the hope of understanding the contributions of select neural systems in mediating distinct cognitive processes. It can also reveal...

AIM Presentation of a prenatally diagnosed case of Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, the most severe type of spinal muscular atrophy. METHODS DNA obtained from cultivated amniocytes was analyzed for deletions in the survival motor neuron gene and neuronal apoptosis inhibitory protein gene. RESULTS The fetus was diagnosed as an affected homozygote for deletions in exon 7 and exon 8 of the survival m...

Burkholderia pseudomallei causes the tropical infection melioidosis. Pneumonia is a common manifestation of melioidosis and is associated with high mortality. Understanding the key elements of host defense is essential to developing new therapeutics for melioidosis. As a flagellated bacterium encoding type III secretion systems, B. pseudomallei may trigger numerous host pathogen recognition rec...