Although salinity satellites can provide high-resolution global sea surface (SSS) data, the satellite data still display large errors close to coast. In this paper, a nonlinear empirical method based on random forest is proposed correct two Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) L3 products in tropical Indian Ocean, including SMOS BEC CATDS data. The agreement between in-situ corrected better ...

Ice-free areas occupy less than 0.25% of the Antarctic surface, and mainly occur along coastlines, or as inland nunataks protruding from extensive ice sheet. Their extreme environment geographical isolation have contributed to evolution highly adapted, largely endemic terrestrial biota. Physical habitat mapping is important identify main drivers spatial variation in soil biodiversity, predict i...

The accurate prediction of protein chemical shifts using a quantum mechanics (QM)-based method has been the subject of intense research for more than 20 years but so far empirical methods for chemical shift prediction have proven more accurate. In this paper we show that a QM-based predictor of a protein backbone and CB chemical shifts (ProCS15, PeerJ, 2016, 3, e1344) is of comparable accuracy ...

We propose an automated protocol for designing the energy landscape of a protein energy function by optimizing its parameters. The parameters are optimized so that not only the global minimum energy conformation becomes native-like, but also the conformations distinct from the native structure have higher energies than those close to the native one. We classify low-energy conformations into thr...

This study examined the feasibility of admittance-based method for detecting simulated damage in bearing plate a prestressed anchorage. The proposed utilized PZT (lead zirconate titanate) interface technique to acquire strong admittance response from Firstly, numerical was demonstrated by presence fatigue cracks and preload changes fixed–fixed beam-like structure. Next, experimental verificatio...

The effectiveness of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is compromised by involuntary motion (e.g. respiration, cardiac activity). The feasibility of processing ultrasound echo data to automatically estimate 3D liver motion for real-time IMRT guidance was previously demonstrated, but performance was limited by an acquisition speed of 2 volumes per second due to hardware restrictions o...

Protein structures are routinely compared by their root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) in atomic coordinates after optimal rigid body superposition. What is not so clear is the significance of different RMSD values, particularly above the customary arbitrary cutoff for obvious similarity of 2-3 A. Our earlier work argued for an intrinsic cutoff for protein similarity that varied with the number o...

Land Surface Temperature (LST) is one of the key inputs for Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere transfer modeling in terrestrial ecosystems. In the frame of BIOSPEC (Linking spectral information at different spatial scales with biophysical parameters of Mediterranean vegetation in the context of global change) and FLUXPEC (Monitoring changes in water and carbon fluxes from remote and proximal sensing in...