This study aims to estimate the soil moisture (SM) in all-sky agriculture areas using fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Gaofen-3 (GF-3) data. The vegetation index (RVI) is obtained SAR data, which overcomes difficulty that optical data cannot construct cloud-covered areas. RVI introduced into water cloud model (WCM) remove contribution of total backscatter σ0 and obtain backscat...

BACKGROUND Respiratory viral infections (RVIs) are the most common causes of respiratory infections. The prevalence of respiratory viruses in adults is underestimated. Meteorological variations and air pollution are likely to play a role in these infections. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to determine the number of emergency visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acu...

Nowadays, technology occupies a preeminent place in different social spheres. In the educational world, and, more specifically, virtual reality can respond to diversity of students present classroom. this line, aim study is explore application immersive promote communication and interaction with ASD. For purpose, an (IVR) environment has been designed classroom where participants are presented ...

Methods We studied 431 patients 1-4 days after primary angioplasty for ST-elevation AMI. T2-weighted and delayed enhancement (DE) CMR was used for visualizing edema and scar to calculate myocardial salvage (MS). Cine-imaging was used for wall motion analysis. Patients with RVI were compared to matched patients with isolated left ventricular (LV) infarction. The primary endpoint was the occurren...

Intracellular protein concentration is an essential cell characteristic, which manifests itself through the refractive index. The latter can be measured from two or more mutually defocused brightfield images analyzed using the TIE (transport-of-intensity equation). In practice, however, TIE does not always achieve quantitatively accurate results on biological cells. Therefore, we have developed...

We review studies on regulatory volume decrease (RVD) and regulatory volume increase (RVI) of major ion and water transporting vertebrate epithelia. The rate of RVD and RVI is faster in cells of high osmotic permeability like amphibian gallbladder and mammalian proximal tubule as compared to amphibian skin and mammalian cortical collecting tubule of low and intermediate osmotic permeability. Cr...

The beta-adrenergic antagonist timolol reduces ciliary epithelial secretion in glaucomatous patients. Whether inhibition is mediated by reducing cAMP is unknown. Elemental composition of rabbit ciliary epithelium was studied by electron probe X-ray microanalysis. Volume of cultured bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial (PE) cells was measured by electronic cell sizing; Ca(2+) activity and pH were...