ii Abstract One of the goals of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) is to improve storm-scale numerical weather prediction (NWP) by collecting data with dense X-band radar network which provides high-resolution low-level coverage, and by assimilating such data into NWP models. During the first spring storm...

The conventional assessment of human semen is a highly subjective assessment, with considerable intraand interlaboratory variability. Computer-Assisted Sperm Analysis (CASA) systems provide a rapid and automated assessment of the sperm characteristics, together with improved standardization and quality control. However, the outcome of CASA systems is sensitive to the method of experimentation. ...

Aggregate signature schemes enable anyone to compress many signatures into one. Besides the unforgeability of aggregate signature, another property called extraction sometimes is useful. In sequential schemes, computed incrementally by signers. We introduce security in context which can be seen as an analogy introduced Boneh et al. CRYPTO 2003. addition practical meaning, it also has benefits c...

casa (computer assisted semen analysis) systems are designed to assist andrologist labour. most available casa systems are not accurate or so expensive. therefore labours use manual methods to provide parameters. although some companies have achieved appropriate accuracy, they have not released their methods. so proposing methods in this area might be useful for groups who intend to design new ...

1 Third-year Resident Physician, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Santa Casa de São Paulo. 2 MSc. in Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Sciences School of the Santa Casa de São Paulo, Doctoral Student, Medical Sciences School of the Santa Casa de São Paulo. (Assistant Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Santa Casa de São Paulo). 3 Fifth-year Medical Student, Medical Sciences School of the...

1 Assistant Professor, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, and Chief of the Mastology Outpatient Clinic of Santa Casa de Misericórdia de são Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 2 Professor, Faculdade de Ciências Medicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo and Chief of Gyecology and Menopause Clinic of Santa Casa de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 3 M.D., Santa Casa de Misericórdia de S...

By using informetric tools, we evaluated the contribution and impact of the open source computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA) software on sperm studies, especially pertaining to fish. The article was cited 125 times between 2007 and 2014 in four publication types (articles, doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, and books). Among articles, the number of citations increased at rate of three ...

This study was designed to determine the ability of computer-assisted sperm morphometry analysis (CASA-Morph) with fluorescence to discriminate between spermatozoa carrying different sex chromosomes from the nuclear morphometrics generated and different statistical procedures in the bovine species. The study was divided into two experiments. The first was to study the morphometric differences b...

Hospital São José, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil: MD, PhD, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital São José Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre; MD, Resident in Neurological Surgery, Hospital São José Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre; MD, Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Policlínica Santa Clara Santa Cas...