The main purpose of this paper is to investigate multitemporal land surface temperature (LST) changes by using satellite remote sensing data. The study included a real-time field work performed during the overpass of Landsat-5 satellite on 21/08/2011 over Salt Lake, Turkey. Normalized vegetation index (NDVI), vegetation condition index (VCI), and temperature vegetation index (TVX) were used for...

An emergence of applications based on live audio-visual content streams could be observed in recent years. While the technological infrastructure in terms of bandwidth and device capabilities has advanced, media formats and related consumption paradigms have not changed as fundamentally. Meanwhile, a considerable amount of research has addressed automatic personalization of multimedia content f...

Diseases triggered by an abnormally high level of cortisol (hypercortisolism), such as the Cushing's and metabolic syndromes, could be successfully tackled by inhibitors of CYP11B1, a steroidal cytochrome P450 enzyme that catalyzes the last hydroxylation step of the cortisol biosynthesis. Structural optimization of 7-(benzyloxy)-4-(1H-imidazol-1-ylmethyl)-2H-chromen-2-one 2, a selective aromata...

ABSTRACT Striga gesnerioides is a root hemiparasite of wild and cultivated legumes, among which cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and Indigofera hirsuta are suitable hosts. In this study, we examined the genetic structure and host-parasite interaction of a strain of S. gesnerioides parasitizing I. hirsuta (SGFL) from central Florida (United States). Amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis was ...

1. The object of this note is to announce a theory of surgery on Poincaré and normal spaces, with applications to Poincaré geometry and manifolds. The present point of view on Poincaré surgery was outlined by W. Browder in the spring of 1969, and is purely homotopy-theoretic. The main missing ingredient in the program was Lemma 1.5, and the (considerable) machinery required for its application....

Audio-visual narratives are becoming the most popular medium for information sharing and social storytelling around a live event. This paper explores the collective experience of users of an online creative storytelling ecosystem. The system provides an ideal platform to study community-driven story co-authoring helped by social networks and networked media, as highlighted in an eventbased user...