BACKGROUND It is often suggested that neighbourhood access to food retailers affects the dietary patterns of local residents, but this hypothesis has not been adequately researched. We examine the association between neighbourhood accessibility to supermarkets and convenience stores and individuals' consumption of fruit and vegetables in New Zealand. METHODS Using geographical information sys...

today one of the most important problems in agriclimatology in effecting of climate on products. one of the climate elements in freezing which according to the continuity , extend and amount of it on agricultural activities ,transportation and invironment has a lot of affections. least temperature forcasts as one of the important climatic elements to forcasting late coldness and freezing in spr...

Naturalness of the neutrino mass hierarchy and mixing is studied. First we select among 12 neutrino mixing patterns a few patterns, which could form the natural neutrino mass matrix. Further we show that if the Dirac neutrino mass matrix is taken as the natural one in the quark sector, then only two mixing patterns without the large mixing lead to the natural right-handed Majorana mass matrix. ...

Accurate and robust measurements from ocean color satellites are critical to studying spatial temporal changes of surface properties. Satellite-derived Chlorophyll-a (Chl) is an important parameter monitor phytoplankton blooms on synoptical scales, particularly in remote seas. However, the present NASA standard Chl algorithm tends strongly underestimate Ross Sea. Based a locally-tuned Sea using...

In this article I propose a critical evaluation of the current European politico-legal landscape that unfolds under conditions COVID-19 pandemic. My aim is to off an analysis symbolic status legality in context and reflect on its historical trajectory, by introducing it longer timescale than usually proposed as well insisting specific nexus between emergency legislation authoritarian ideologies...

The Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) is a promising initiative aiming to install 20,000 stations in sub-Saharan Africa counteracting the decreasing trend of available measuring stations. To achieve this goal, it particularly important that installed weather are cost-efficient, appropriate for African conditions, and reliably measure most variables hydro-meteorological appl...

Dynamic texture is an extension of texture to the temporal domain. Description and recognition of dynamic textures has attracted growing attention. In this paper, a new method for recognizing dynamic textures is proposed. The textures are modeled with volume local binary patterns (VLBP), which are an extension of the LBP operator widely used in still texture analysis, combining the motion and a...

Distributed Software Development involves a number of different business models. Most of the companies, when searching for external solutions in other countries (offshoring), usually have two main options: offshore outsourcing (contracting services with an external organization) and internal offshoring (contracting with a wholly owned subsidiary). Both models have been studied for a long time, ...