Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations of specific-absorption rate (SAR) have several uncertainty factors. For example, significantly varying SAR values may result from the use of different algorithms for determining the SAR from the FDTD electric field. The objective of this paper is to rigorously study the divergence of SAR values due to different SAR calculation algorithms and to e...

Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) may help improve care delivery at home for older adults with cognitive impairment and reduce the burden of informal caregivers. Examining the views of these stakeholders on SAR is fundamental in order to conceive acceptable and useful SAR for dementia care. This study investigated SAR acceptance among three groups of older adults living in the community: persons ...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery from satellites provides a range of data products that can reveal certain aspects of the underwater acoustical environment. Space-based SAR imagery is available in all weather, day or night and has wide area coverage with swaths up to 500 km across. This availability and coverage gives SAR satellite data the potential to enhance acoustic environmental asse...

Space-borne SAR sensors are of special interest for mapping flood extent due to the possibility to acquire images in all weather conditions. In this article we review the SAR part of an operational flood mapping service. An operational service requires fully automatic methods that are able to process any available SAR data in near-real time. Mapping flood with SAR requires different approaches ...

A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system with hybrid-polarity architecture constitutes a significant advancement in the field of radar remote sensing. This new architecture system is a Compact Polarimetric (CP) SAR system which transmits a circular polarization and receives two mutually coherent orthogonal linear polarizations. This SAR system reduces some of the design constraints of the spaceb...

For the automation of SAR image Block Adjustment, this paper proposed a method of SAR image matching integrating multiinformation. It takes full advantage of SAR image geometric information, feature information, gray-related information and external auxiliary terrain information for SAR image matching. And then Image Tie Points (ITPs) of Block Adjustment can be achieved automatically. The main ...

Reactions of the tetrylenes Ge(SAr(Me6))2 (1) (Ar(Me6) = C6H3-2,6(C6H2-2,4,6-Me3)2), and Sn(SAr(Me6))2 (2) with (Mo(CO)4(NBD) (NBD = bicyclo[2.2.1]hepta-2,5-diene) gave three new, unusual complexes [Mo(THF)(CO)3{Ge(SAr(Me6))2}] (3), [Mo(THF)(CO)3{Ge(SAr(Me6))2}] (4) and [Mo(CO)4{Sn(SAr(Me6))2}] (5) which display no significant Ge/Sn-Mo bonding. Instead the ligands are coordinated to molybdenum ...

The analysis of structure-activity relationships (SAR) is a central task in medicinal chemistry. The association between chemical structures of biologically active molecules and multiple property and assay data provides the basis for selection, optimization, and evaluation of potential drug candidate molecules. In an endeavour to facilitate the navigation of complex data landscapes and enable i...

PURPOSE To examine relationships between specific energy absorption rate (SAR) and temperature distributions in the human head during radio frequency energy deposition in MRI. MATERIALS AND METHODS A multi-tissue numerical model of the head was developed that considered thermal conductivity, heat capacity, perfusion, heat of metabolism, electrical properties, and density. Calculations of SAR ...

Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) develops in response to local microbial leaf inoculation and renders the whole plant more resistant to subsequent pathogen infection. Accumulation of salicylic acid (SA) in noninfected plant parts is required for SAR, and methyl salicylate (MeSA) and jasmonate (JA) are proposed to have critical roles during SAR long-distance signaling from inoculated to distan...