A regional algorithm to estimate SST fields in the western North Pacific, where small oceanographic disturbance are often found, has been developed using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS) aboard Terra and Aqua. Its associated algorithm, which includes cloud screening and SST estimation, is based on an algorithm for the Global Imager (GLI) aboard Advanced Earth Observing Sat...

A method is described for measuring transit time through the gut which requires the collection of only one stool. A dose of 20 radio-opaque markers is given to the subject on each of three consecutive days with breakfast, each dose of marker being of a different type. The first stool passed after rising on the fourth day is collected and its marker content analysed. The method has been validate...

BACKGROUND & PURPOSE Although perturbations can result in falls, objective practical tests of balance that incorporate perturbations have not received as much attention as other balance measures. The purposes of this study were to: (1) describe a new clinical waist pull perturbation balance test protocol, the Spring Scale Test (SST), (2) determine the test-retest reliability of the SST, and (3)...

A novel physics-based method for determination of sea surface temperature (SST) from AVHRR is explained in detail. Starting from the equation of radiative transfer in the mean value approximation, we use variational calculus to derive an expression relating the difference between the radiance calculated using a first guess atmospheric profile and the observed satellite radiance (∆I), to the cor...

This paper presents an optimal solution to water motion in satellite images. Since temperature patterns are suitable tracers in water motion, Sea Surface Temperature (SST) images of Caspian Sea taken by MODIS sensor on board Terra satellite have been used in this study. Two daily SST images with 24 hours time interval are used as input data. Computation of templates correspondence between pairs...

Due to the significant amount of noise in Sea Surface Temperature (SST) images that originate from different atmospheric sources and the sensor itself, current detection methods detect false fronts or neglect to detect fronts. Various methods have been used to filter the SST images including low-pass filter [1], contextual filter [2], adaptive filtering [3] and others [4]. The present paper int...

In this paper, we investigate semi-supervised training (SST) method in various state-of-the-art acoustic modeling techniques, using bottle-neck and corresponding tandem features. These techniques include subspace GMM, tanh-neuron deep neural network (DNN), and a generalized soft-maxout (p-norm) DNN. We demonstrate that SST may lead up to 2% Word Error Rate (WER) reduction using all these techni...

BACKGROUND Rabies causes 55, 000 annual human deaths globally and about 10,000 people are exposed annually in Nigeria. Diagnosis of animal rabies in most African countries has been by direct microscopic examination. In Nigeria, the Seller's stain test (SST) was employed until 2009. Before then, both SST and dFAT were used concurrently until the dFAT became the only standard method. OBJECTIVE ...

The characteristics of the SST data will depend on how the measurements were made. Most of the SST measurements in the period 1970 to 1997 were made using either a bucket and thermometer or by reporting the temperature of the engine intake cooling water. A smaller number of reports were made using hull sensors which are thought to be more accurate. ICOADS contains a metadata flag giving the met...

The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument on-board the METOP satellite is designed to provide very accurate measurements of Sea Surface Temperature (SST). In this work, using one year of METOP-AVHRR data and a geostatistical approach, we characterize the spatial anisotropy and non-stationarity of the SST variability using oriented ellipsoids. The method is also able to sep...