A technique for automated terrain corrected SAR geocoding is presented. Instead of operator selected control points the presented method uses cross-correlation with a SAR intensity image simulated from the Digital Elevation Model to refine the geocoding transformation.

To meet the increasing demand for value-added fresh cod loins in the EU retail market, it is important to develop new technologies and preservation methods to effectively extend the shelf-life and improve the eating quality of fresh cod loins. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of combined application of MAP and superchilled storage on the shelf-life extension of fresh cod loi...

In the present study, we proposed a modification in one of the most frequently applied effect-size procedures in single-case data analysis: the percentage of nonoverlapping data. In contrast with other techniques, the calculus and interpretation of this procedure are straightforward and can be easily complemented by visual inspection of the graphed data. Although the percentage of nonoverlappin...

ramadan fasting is one of the most important religious duties of muslims, that its effect on the heart has not been determined yet. our objective was to evaluate the effect of ramadan fasting on ventricular repolarization as assessed by qt interval, corrected qt interval, qt dispersion or corrected qt dispersion. sixthy healthy subjects aged 20 to 35 years were dispersion included in this study...

purpose : to investigate the discriminative ability of contrast sensitivity (cs), color vision and best corrected visual acuity (bcva) in detecting functional losses in diabetic participants with and without retinopathy methods : in this cross sectional study we examined 105 patients in khatam-al-anbia eye hospital of mashhad university of medical sciences including 70 diabetic patients (35 wit...

This note examines assumptions at the basis of the recently proposed quantum error-correcting codes. It is shown that these codes can correct only a subset of errors, and are unable to correct small phase errors which can have disastrous consequences for a quantum computation. This shortcomings will restrict their usefulness in real applications. Colours seen by candle-light Will not look the s...

In a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), the elemental analysis at atomic resolution is realized by the combination with electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS), since an aberration corrected probe forming lens system enables us to obtain an electron probe sized about 0.1 nm [1]. In EELS, the energy resolution is mainly limited by the energy spread of the electron source, which i...

This paper presents a histogram based image retrieval system for environments where the images may be subject to gamma correction. The images are transformed into representations that are invariant under gamma correction. The differential invariant employed is a local feature implemented with derivatives of the Gaussian. The image retrieval is based on feature histograms computed from the invar...

Robots will increasingly take on roles in our social lives where they can cause humans harm. When robots do so, will people hold robots morally accountable? To investigate this question, 40 undergraduate students individually engaged in a 15-minute interaction with ATR’s humanoid robot, Robovie. The interaction culminated in a situation where Robovie incorrectly assessed the participant’s perfo...