Frequent hurricane landfalls along the northern Gulf of Mexico, in addition to causing immediate damage to vegetation, also have long term effects on coastal ecosystem structure and function. This study investigated the utility of using time series enhanced vegetation index (EVI) imagery composited in MODIS product MOD13Q1 for assessing hurricane damage to vegetation and its recovery. Vegetatio...

We introduce soft cardinality constraints which need to be satisfied on average only, and thus permit violations in a controlled manner. Starting from a highly expressive but intractable class, we establish a fragment that is maximal with respect to both expressivity and efficiency. More precisely, we characterise the associated implication problem axiomatically and develop a low-degree polynom...

In the past years computing has been moving from the sequential world to the parallel one, from centralised organisation to a decentralised. In parallel programming the goal of the design process cannot be reduced to optimise a single metrics like for example speed. While evaluating a parallel program a problem specific function of execution time, memory requirements, communication cost, implem...

In JIT assembly system, any supplier’s postponement of delivery or incorrect delivery quantity will result in the manufacturer’s incapability of assembling on schedule, which will not only damage the interests of other suppliers but also jeopardize the interests of enterprises and reduce the competitiveness of the supply chain. In this article, coordination of the upstream supply logistics from...

This paper studies the effect of noise on coevolutionary learning, using Backgammon as a typical noisy task. It might seem that co-evolutionary learning would be ill-suited to noisy tasks: genetic drift causes convergence to a population of similar individuals, and on noisy tasks it would seem to require many samples (i.e., many evaluations, and long computation time) to discern small differenc...

variable rate application (vra) based on site specific crop management (sscm) is an effective approach for optimizing the application of agricultural inputs and preventing the undesirable environmental impacts. design, construction and evaluation of a map-based vra system was the main objective followed in this research. for variable rate application based on the generated map, a direct injecti...

static bone scan was performed in 46 patients for evaluation of ocular hydroxyapatite vascularization. study findings indicated that bone scan, with tc-99m mdp is an appropriate method for evaluation of hydroxyapatite vascularization and for estimating the time for peg insertion into the hydroxyapatite implant. our study showed proper hydroxyapatite vascularization when the ratio of activity in...