(Leaf damage in a mangrove swamp at Sepetiba Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Leaf damage to Rhizophora mangle L., Avicennia schaueriana Stapf. & Leechman, and Laguncularia racemosa L. was studied in a two hectare mangrove swamp site in Sepetiba Bay. Seventeen arthropod morphospecies were identifi ed as being responsible for the damage, and their species diversity was highest on A. schaueriana, fo...

ETRI Journal, Volume 30, Number 4, August 2008 The H.264/AVC standard has adopted new coding tools such as intra-prediction, variable block size, motion estimation with quarter-pixel-accuracy, loop filter, and so on. The adoption of these tools enables an H.264/AVC-coded bitstream to have more information than was possible with previous standards. In this paper, we propose an effective spatial ...

There have been various studies analyzing public sentiment after a large-scale disaster. However, few studies have focused on the relationship between public sentiment on social media and its results on people’s activities in the real world. In this paper, we conduct a long-term sentiment analysis after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 using Facebook Pages with the aim of inv...

DOBSON, JAMES G., JR., AND GEORGE W. KIDDER III. Edye damage effect in in vitro frog skin preparations. Am. J. Physiol. 214 (4) : 719-724. 1968.-When frog skin is mounted between conventional chambers, some of the tissue in the exposed area is damaged by stresses imposed by the clamping process. It has been possible to measure the extent and characteristics of this damaged region by systematica...