This study’s overarching aim is to establish the areal extent and characteristics of the rapid sugarcane expansion and land use change in São Paulo state (Brazil) as a result of an increase in the demand for ethanol, using Landsat type remotely sensed data. In 2003 flex fuel automobiles started to enter the Brazilian consumer market causing a dramatic expansion of sugarcane areas from 2.57 mill...

This paper reports on the activities at IMEC that will lead to a 100Mb/s indoor communication system based on multi-carrier modulation. The goal is to build a wireless local area network, which can compete with today’s wired solutions in terms of cost and performance. It is shown how a dedicated ASIC architecture implements an OFDM modem with 256 carriers that allows transmission of complex sym...

Abstract Drug release membranes have been developed in various points of view for many decades. They should be flexible responding to body movement the patient convenience. Most them are synthetic materials. Since natural rubber (NR) is elastic and flexible, it an interesting green material develop as a drug membrane. However, there limitation NR Therefore, development efficiency membrane impor...

New insights into the low-resolution structure of the hinge region and the transmembrane domain of the membrane-bound major coat protein of the bacteriophage M13 are deduced from a single cysteine-scanning approach using fluorescence spectroscopy. New mutant coat proteins are labeled and reconstituted into phospholipid bilayers with varying headgroup compositions (PC, PE, and PG) and thicknesse...

Many microscopes, especially confocal and electron microscopes, are costly to purchase and maintain and are often only available in centralized facilities. The Internet has provided the potential for real-time accessibility to these microscopy resources with HTML pages describing the facility and the equipment available and, in some cases, the remote use of the microscope itself. Web-based book...

This paper addresses local stability analysis for the exible independent component analysis (ICA) algorithm [6] where the generalized Gaussian density model was employed for blind separation of mixtures of suband super-Gaussian sources. In the exible ICA algorithm, the shape of nonlinear function in the learning algorithm varies depending on the Gaussian exponent which is properly selected acco...

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Local phase coherence (LPC) is a recently discovered property that reveals the phase relationship in the vicinity of distinctive features between neighboring complex filter coefficients in the scale-space. It has demonstrated good potentials in a number of image processing and computer vision applications, including image registration, fusion and sharpness evaluation. Existing LPC computation m...

We propose a new object recognition system based on local features and their flexible spatial configuration within a probabilistic framework. Although the training set consists of only 1 image of the object, the system is able to recognize that same object under large rigid and/or non-rigid deformations. This is possible due to the robustness of the local features and of the pairwise geometric ...