In this paper we present how to use an Unmanned Aerial System in remote sensing. The system is specifically designed for forest fire management, as a support tool for the Fire Services to improve their tactical decisions. The system payload includes two cameras: a thermal camera and a visual camera. A simple image processing algorithm is applied to the thermal images in order to detect hot area...

We present the first results from an experimental campaign to measure the atomic ablator-gas mix in the deceleration phase of gas-filled capsule implosions on the National Ignition Facility. Plastic capsules containing CD layers were filled with tritium gas; as the reactants are initially separated, DT fusion yield provides a direct measure of the atomic mix of ablator into the hot spot gas. Ca...

X-ray spectroscopy is used on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to diagnose the plasma conditions in the hot spot and the compressed shell of ignition-scale inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions. Ignition of an ICF target depends on the formation of a central hot spot with sufficient temperature and areal density. The concentric spherical layers of current NIF ignition targets consist...

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 11, No. 2, February 2005 347 within SXTLAOS. However, the gene was not found in any of the proposed hot spot regions. The possibility that the trimethoprim resistance determinant is located on the chromosome outside the SXT element and cotransfers with the SXT in an Hfr-like manner cannot be ruled out (9). Therefore, additional hot spot regi...

Identifying hot-spot residues - residues that are critical to protein-protein binding - can help to elucidate a protein's function and assist in designing therapeutic molecules to target those residues. We present a novel computational tool, termed spatial-interaction-map (SIM), to predict the hot-spot residues of an evolutionarily conserved protein-protein interaction from the structure of an ...

Most excellent object-oriented frameworks are still the product of a more or less chaotic development process, typically carried out in the realm of research-like settings. Overall, flexibility has to be injected into a framework in appropriate doses1. Framework adaptation takes place at points of predefined refinement that we call hot spots. As the quality of a framework depends directly on th...

In this research and development project we are exploring a new approach of mobile web and location-based services (LBS) for communication / collaboration which is based on a physical hot spot serving as an accumulation point; a hub for thematic and social collaboration. Different actors can consult, publish or exchange information in relation with the location materialized by the hot spot. Thi...

The main function of a wireless sensor network is to sense the outside environment and report the data to a processing center. Therefore, both sensing and communication roles should be considered for a sensor network. Except for the mobility aspect, sensor networks inherit almost all properties of ad hoc networks. Therefore, sensor nodes are supposed to report data to a common sink instead of s...