Human-induced global warming has significantly increased the importance ofsatellite monitoring of land surface temperature (LST) on a global scale. The MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides a 1-km resolution LST productwith almost daily coverage of the Earth, invaluable to both local and global change studies.The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflection Radiomete...

Recent increases in the rates of biological invasion and spread of infectious diseases have been linked to the continued expansion of the worldwide airline transportation network (WAN). Here, the global structure of the WAN is analysed in terms of climatic similarity to illuminate the risk of deliberate or accidental movements of climatically sensitive organisms around the world. From over 44,0...

since the last de cade in the treat ment of ad vanced la ryn geal or hypopharyneal can cer, to tal laryngectomy with or with out post op er a tive ra dio ther apy is still the stan dard treat ment in many in sti tutes. Re storing the phonation for com mu ni ca tion is an im por tant is sue for laryngectomees. In Tai wan, there are 4 alaryngeal speech meth ods avail able: the pneu matic de vice ...

| Real-time distribution of stored video over wide-area networks is a crucial component of many emerging distributed multimedia applications. The heterogeneity in the underlying network environments is an important factor that must be taken into consideration when designing an end-to-end video delivery system. In this paper, we present a novel approach to the problem of end-to-end video deliver...

When computing resources are consolidated in a few huge data centers, a massive amount of data is transferred to each data center over a wide area network (WAN). This results in increased power consumption in the WAN. A distributed computing network (DCN), such as a content delivery network, can reduce the traffic from/to the data center, thereby decreasing the power consumed in the WAN. In thi...

We give a proof, following an argument of H.W. Lenstra, of the conjecture of L. Carlitz (1966) as generalized by D. Wan (1993). This says, there are no exceptional polynomials of degree n over Fq if (n, q− 1) > 1. Fried, Guralnick and Saxl proved a much stronger result, showing that primitive exceptional polynomials have monodromy groups with degrees either a power of the characteristic (and th...