RESULTS All results shown are obtained from a data set acquired with 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 mm isotropic resolution using a 1.5-T GE (General Electric, Milwaukee, WI) MRI scanner. A diffusion-weighted EPI pulse sequence was used. After a single acquisition is performed with no diffusion-weighting, 50 images with diffusion-weighting gradients oriented along different directions were acquired at b=1100 ...

Global climate models typically use relatively crude estimates of roughness length, often based on constant values for land cover category. However, large variations may exist within any of the vegetation categories. Global large-scale estimates of roughness length, such as required by climate models, cannot rely on field experiments for practical reasons and must, therefore, be derived from sa...

Road condition estimation based on Extended Floating Car Data (XFCD) from smart devices allows for determining given quality indicators like the international roughness index (IRI). Such approaches currently face the challenge to utilize measurements from heterogeneous sources. This paper investigates how a statistical learning based self-calibration overcomes individual sensor characteristics....

Pavement maintenance requires knowing the state of the road surface. Human inspection is the most common method for evaluating this state. Recently, the automated visual inspection has been addressed, but some important questions remain open concerning the variable ambient lighting, shadows, device synchronisation and the large amount of data. In the present paper, an automated visual inspectio...

Psoriasis is a widespread skin disease affecting up to 2% population with plaque psoriasis accounting to about 80%. It can be identified as a red lesion and for the higher severity the lesion is usually covered with rough scale. Psoriasis Area Severity Index (PASI) scoring is the gold standard method for measuring psoriasis severity. Scaliness is one of PASI parameter that needs to be quantifie...

<span lang="EN-US">Kosovo has limited renewable energy resources and its power generation sector is based on fossil fuels. Such a situation emphasizes the importance of active research efficient use potential. According to analysis meteorological data for Kosovo, it can be concluded that among most attractive potential wind sites are locations known as Kitka (42° 29' 41" N 21° 36' 45" E) ...

This paper investigates the influences of macroeconomic policies on agricultural production and other factors affecting it, based panel data in a global sample for period 2010–2017. Because spatial interactions levels countries are determined, models employed analyses. According to analysis results, countries' financial, fiscal monetary have an important effect production. Besides, determinants...