Large-scale coastal reclamation has caused significant changes in Spartina alterniflora (S. alterniflora) distribution in coastal regions of China. However, few studies have focused on estimation of the wetland vegetation biomass, especially of S. alterniflora, in coastal regions using LiDAR and hyperspectral data. In this study, the applicability of LiDAR and hypersectral data for estimating S...

Zorab, P. A., Clark, S., Harrison, A., and Seel, J. R. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 763. Hydroxyproline excretion and height velocity in adolescent boys. The height velocity of 122 boys of 11 to 17 years is compared with their urinary total hydroxyproline excretion and a close relation is shown. The importance of this is discussed in relation to undersized children and to those...

We present worst-case lower bounds on the minimum size of a binary space partition (BSP) tree as a function of its height, for a set S of n axis-parallel line segments in the plane. We assume that the BSP uses only axis-parallel cutting lines. These lower bounds imply that, in the worst case, a BSP tree of height O(log n) must have size (n log n) and a BSP tree of size O(n) must have height (n)...

PURPOSE All structures of the spine, including the spinal canal, change continuously with age. The purpose of this study was to determine how the spinal canal of the lumbar spine changes with age. The L4/5 is the most common site of spinal stenosis and has the largest flexion-extension motion, whereas the T5/6 has the least motion. Therefore, we measured the spinal canal diameter and vertebral ...

In local reef fish communities, species richness increases with increasing reef area. At Ishigaki Island, Japan, species richness is much lower on large reefs in the shallow back reef than that expected from random placement model simulations (RPMS). As three aggressive territorial herbivorous damselfish, Stegastes nigricans, Stegastes lividus and Hemiglyphidodon plagiometopon, coexist only on ...

We develop an exact simple random variate generator for the theta distribution, which occurs as the limit distribution of the height of nearly all models of uniform random trees. Even though the density is only known as an infinite sum of functions, our algorithm does not require any summation. The properties of the theta distribution with distribution function F(x)= ~ (1-2j2x2)e-J2x2 j~-(x3 oo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the role of posterior fixation including the fractured vertebra (PFFV) for the treatment of thoracolumbar vertebral fractures. METHODS Sixty-seven patients that sustained a single-level thoracolumbar fracture were included in this retrospective study carried out in the Wuxi People`s Hospital, Wuxi, China between August 2010 and June 2013. Thirty-two cases were treated wi...

It was proved by Juhász and Weiss that for every ordinal α with 0 < α < ω2 there is a superatomic Boolean algebra of height α and width ω. We prove that if κ is an infinite cardinal such that κ = κ and α is an ordinal such that 0 < α < κ++, then there is a cardinal-preserving partial order that forces the existence of a superatomic Boolean algebra of height α and width κ. Furthermore, iterating...

There are two ways to produce an /s/ in English: apical and laminal. They are almost identical perceptually and the reason for choosing one type is not well understood. This study questions whether one type is preferred in certain conditions, such as high vs low palate height or in post-surgical tongue adaptation. This study examines palate height, and motion of critical and non-critical tongue...