The scale difference between point in situ soil moisture measurements and low resolution satellite products limits the quality of any validation efforts in heterogeneous regions. Cosmic Ray Neutron Probes (CRNP) could be an option to fill the scale gap between both systems, as they provide area-average soil moisture within a 150–250 m radius footprint. In this study, we evaluate differences and...

Return-to-user (ret2usr) attacks redirect corrupted kernel pointers to data residing in user space. In response, several kernel-hardening approaches have been proposed to enforce a more strict address space separation, by preventing arbitrary control flow transfers and dereferences from kernel to user space. Intel and ARM also recently introduced hardware support for this purpose in the form of...

Soil moisture plays a key role in many hydrological and agricultural processes because it controls the water and heat energy exchange between the earth and the atmosphere. Addressing the need for routine global surface soil moisture maps, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission in 2009. It provides L-band microwave brightness temperature obse...

In the present study, we investigated the effects of 14 endogenous steroids on the CYP3A4-mediated drug metabolism by human liver microsomes in vitro. Nevirapine (NVP) 2-, 12-hydroxylations, carbamazepine (CBZ) 10,11-epoxidation, triazolam (TZM) 1'-, 4-hydroxylations, erythromycin (EM) N-demethylation, and 2-sulphamoylacetylphenol (SMAP) formation from zonisamide (ZNS) were investigated. The ac...

Within the framework of speaker-adaptation, a technique based on tree structure and the maximum a posteriori criterion was proposed (SMAP). In SMAP, the parameters estimation, at each node in the tree is based on the assumption that the mismatch between the training and adaptation data is a Gaussian PDF which parameters are estimated by using the Maximum Likelihood criterion. To avoid poor tran...

Droughts can severely reduce the productivity of agricultural lands and forests. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Southeast Regional Climate Hub (SERCH) has launched the Lately Identified Geospecific Heightened Threat System (LIGHTS) to inform its users of potential water deficiency threats. The system identifies droughts and other climate anomalies such as extreme precipitati...

Return-to-user (ret2usr) attacks redirect corrupted kernel pointers to data residing in user space. In response, several kernel-hardening approaches have been proposed to enforce a more strict address space separation, by preventing arbitrary control flow transfers and dereferences from kernel to user space. Intel and ARM also recently introduced hardware support for this purpose in the form of...

Novicidin is an antimicrobial peptide derived from ovispirin, a cationic peptide which originated from the ovine cathelicidin SMAP-29. Novicidin, however, has been designed to minimize the cytotoxic properties of SMAP-29 and ovisipirin toward achieving potential therapeutic applications. We present an analysis of membrane interactions and lipid bilayer penetration of novicidin, using an array o...

The development of wireless and web technologies has allowed the mobile users to request various kinds of services by mobile devices at anytime and anywhere. Helping the users obtain needed information effectively is an important issue in the mobile web systems. Discovery of user behavior can highly benefit the enhancements on system performance and quality of services. Obviously, the mobile us...