The monitoring of herbaceous fuel moisture content is a crucial activity in order to assess savanna fire risks. Faced with the difficulty of managing wide areas of vegetated surfaces, remote sensing appears an attractive alternative for terrestrial measurements because of its advantages related to temporal resolution and spatial coverage. Earth observation (EO)-based vegetation indices (VIs) an...

A hurricane event can often produce both intense rainfall and a storm tide that cause major compound flooding threat to coastlines. This paper examined applications of multivariate copula-based time series models using data observed during Hurricane Irma (2017) along the coastlines Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, United States. Multivariate were developed bivariate copulas wherein modeled LOW...

This paper presents some experiences in the exploitation of a database interface development architecture in which the interface is implemented using the facilities of the database. It is shown how novel interfaces, specifically a multiparadigm query interface and a debugger for an active rule system, can benefit from and exploit the uniform representation of interface and database system conce...

Recent studies have suggested that educators should avoid concrete instantiations when the goal is to promote transfer. However, concrete instantiations may benefit transfer in the long run, particularly if they are “faded” into more abstract instantiations. Undergraduates were randomly assigned to learn a mathematical concept in one of three conditions: generic, in which the concept was instan...

We investigate the relation between two quantitative measures characterizing short term memory in input driven dynamical systems, namely the short term memory capacity (MC) [3] and the Fisher memory curve (FMC) [2]. We show that even though MC and FMC map the memory structure of the system under investigation from two quite different perspectives, for linear input driven dynamical systems they ...

In this contribution we review models for construction of higher dimensional dependence that have arisen recent years. In particular we focus on specific generalized Farlie Gumbel (or Sarmanov) copulas which are generated by a single function (so-called generator or generator function) defined on the unit interval. An alternative approach to generalize the FGM family of copulas is to consider t...

When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This intelligent assistant systems concept...

We propose a formalized method that allows to automatically derive an optimized implementation from the formal speciication of a protocol. Our method starts with the SDL speciication of a protocol stack. We rst derive a data and control ow dependence graph from each SDL process. Then, in order to perform cross-layer optimizations we combine the dependence graphs of diierent SDL processes. Next,...

We propose a formalized method that allows to automatically derive an optimized implementation from the formal speciication of a protocol. Our method starts with the SDL speciication of a protocol stack. We rst derive a data and control ow dependence graph from each SDL process. Then, in order to perform cross-layer optimizations we combine the dependence graphs of diierent SDL processes. Next,...

Most theories of analogical transfer focus on similarities between the learning and transfer domains, where transfer is more likely between domains that share common surface features, similar elements, or common interpretations of structure. We suggest that characteristics of the learning instantiation alone can give rise to different levels of transfer. We propose that concreteness of the lear...