We study the wind climate and its long-term variability in the North Sea and South China Sea, areas relevant for offshore wind energy development, using satellite-based wind data, because very few reliable long-term in-situ sea surface wind observations are available. The Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) ocean winds extrapolated from 10 m to 100 m using the Charnock relationship and the ...

A 6-week trial was conducted to investigate the effects of animal skin protein sources from swine and cattle on growth performance, body condition and blood characteristics in growing pigs. A total of 96 pigs (23.50 ± 0.61 kg) were randomly allotted into four dietary treatment groups as follows: (1) basal diet (BD); (2) basal diet with 1.5% hydrolysed render meal (HRM); (3) basal diet with 1.5%...

Abstract. Defective pelvic organ support due to injuries of the levator ani is a common problem in women and its intervention requires a thorough understanding of the structure. Three-dimensional surfaces of the levator ani have proved to be a promising method of studying this. In this paper, we propose to build a statistical shape model (SSM) of the levator ani and describe a segmentation tech...

An improved split-step method (SSM) for digital backward propagation (DBP) applicable to wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) transmission with polarization-division multiplexing (PDM) is presented. A coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations, derived from the Manakov equations, is used for DBP. The above system enables the implementation of DBP on a channel-by-channel basis, ...

Passivemicrowave radiometer data over the ocean have beenwidely used, but data near coastlines or over lakes often cannot be used because of the large footprint with mixed signals from both land and water. For example, current standard Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) products, including wind, water vapor, and precipitation, are typically unavailable within about 100km of any coastline. ...

This paper is the result of reflection upon a series of software measurement exercises that have been carried out in a telecommunications engineering environment. These exercises were conducted in a manner which attempted, as far as possible, to follow recognised good practice. It is argued that while approaches such as the Goal/Question/Metric paradigm and the framework for the validation of s...

OBJECTIVE Increasing numbers of student service members/veterans (SSM/Vs) are enrolling in college. However, little is known about how their previous military experience affects their adjustment to this new role. The present study tested the hypothesis that SSM/Vs who report adjustment problems in college have a higher incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and other beh...

It is widely known that morphological changes of the liver and the spleen occur during the clinical course of chronic liver diseases. In this paper, we proposed a morphological analysis method based on statistical shape models (SSMs) of the liver and spleen for computer-aided diagnosis and quantification of the chronic liver. We constructed not only the liver SSM but also the spleen SSM and a j...

The excess of highest energy solar-neutrino events recently observed by Superkamiokande can be in principle explained by anomalously high hep-neutrino flux Φ ν (hep). Without using SSM calculations, from the solar lumi-nosity constraint we derive that Φ ν (hep)/S 13 cannot exceed the SSM estimate by more than a factor three. If one makes the additional hypothesis that hep neutrino production oc...

This algorithm was originally developed for application to the SSM/I instrument for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) (Wilheit et al., 1991) The lowest frequency of the SSM/I was 19.35 GHz so that many heavy rain events could not be measured due to saturation. The use of the form of the rain PDF allowed us to fill in the contribution from these heavy rain rates by extrapolatio...