The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite is a joint US-Japanese mission to explore tropical rainfall and its effects on the earth's energy budget, general circulation, and climate. In the present study, a method has been developed here for rainfall retrieval over Indian land and oceanic regions from remotely sensed microwave (MW) brightness temperature (BT) data obtained from th...

BACKGROUND Adenosquamous carcinoma is a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer. The prognostic and predictive value of preoperative serum tumor markers and frequency of EGFR mutations in adenosquamous lung carcinoma are unclear. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed data and samples collected from 106 radically resected adenosquamous lung carcinoma patients with pathological stage I-IIIA betwe...

We have investigated the performance and potential benefit of acoustic sensing for real-time monitoring and closed loop control of binary gas mixture compositions delivered from low vapor pressure metalorganic sources. Two solid phase sources were investigated in the presence of H2 as a carrier gas: (1) trimethylindium (TMI) and (2) bis(cyclopentadienyl) magnesium sCp2Mgd, which have room tempe...

With image-guided tomotherapy, highly targeted total marrow irradiation (TMI) has become a feasible alternative to conventional total body irradiation. The uncertainties in patient localization and intrafraction motion of the whole body during hour-long TMI treatment may pose a risk to the safety and accuracy of targeted radiation treatment. The feasibility of near-infrared markers and optical ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of tailored print communication (TPC), telephone motivational interviewing (TMI), a combination of the two, and no intervention on two outcomes in adults aged 45 to 70, half of them having hypertension: increasing the number of public health guidelines met for three behaviors (physical activity and fruit and vegetabl...

Previous studies concluded that there was no evidence that the 1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) affected cancer incidence in the surrounding area; however, there were logical and methodological problems in earlier reports that led us to reconsider data previously collected. A 10-mile area around TMI was divided into 69 study tracts, which were assigned radiation dose estimates b...

A methodology to analyze precipitation profiles using the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) and precipitation radar (PR) is proposed. Rainfall profiles are retrieved from PR measurements, defined as the best-fit solution selected from precalculated profiles by cloud-resolving models (CRMs), under explicitly defined assumptions of drop size distribution (DSD) and ...

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique has been used for the estimation of precipitation, mainly from passive and active microwave measurements from space. ANN has been used to estimate precipitation using TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) onboard Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. A precipitation algorithm designed to generate rainfall estimates using a combination of TMI and T...

The measurement error of the differencing (i.e., using two homogenous field sensors at a known baseline distance) magnetic gradient tensor system includes the biases, scale factors, nonorthogonality of the single magnetic sensor, and the misalignment error between the sensor arrays, all of which can severely affect the measurement accuracy. In this paper, we propose a low-cost artificial vector...

Web search can be enhanced in powerful ways if token spans in Web text are annotated with disambiguated entities from large catalogs like Freebase. Entity annotators need to be trained on sample mention snippets. Wikipedia entities and annotated pages offer high-quality labeled data for training and evaluation. Unfortunately, Wikipedia features only one-ninth the number of entities as Freebase,...