To support municipal solid waste (MSW) characterization efforts, EPA conducted a scoping study on food waste and the methods by which they are managed. The end-of-life sustainable food management (SFM) techniques presented in this scoping study include practices currently used as well as emerging technologies. While the research did not result in much quantifiable data, this study provides summ...

Our work is focused on developing a real-time structure from motion (SfM) algorithm that is usable in an augmented reality system. We envisage augmented reality applications involving a head-mounted camera and display system. This requires an SfM algorithm that is robust to different scene structure and camera motion and will invariably have to deal with the problems of occlusion, clutter and m...

Structure from motion (SfM) and MultiView Stereo (MVS) algorithms are increasingly being applied to imagery from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to generate point cloud data for various surveying and mapping applications. To date, the options for assessing the spatial accuracy of the SfM-MVS point clouds have primarily been limited to empirical accuracy assessments, which involve comparisons ag...

BACKGROUND AIMS The cost-effective production of human mesenchymal stromal cells (hMSCs) for off-the-shelf and patient specific therapies will require an increasing focus on improving product yield and driving manufacturing consistency. METHODS Bone marrow-derived hMSCs (BM-hMSCs) from two donors were expanded for 36 days in monolayer with medium supplemented with either fetal bovine serum (F...

1a,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3] concentrations are regulated by renal CYP27B1 for synthesis and CYP24A1 for degradation. Published plasma and tissue 1,25(OH)2D3 concentrations andmRNA fold change expression of Cyp24a1 andCyp27b1 following repetitive i.p. injections to C57BL/6 mice (2.5 mg 3 kg every 2 days for 4 doses) were fitted with a minimal and full physiologically-based pharmacoki...

This study investigates the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to measure and monitor structural properties of forests. Two remote sensing techniques, airborne laser scanning (ALS) and structure from motion (SfM) were tested to capture three-dimensional structural information from a small multi-rotor UAV platform. A case study is presented through the analysis of data collected from a...

* This work has been supported by the MEyC-Spain under contract TIN 2004-03388 and by the European Commission under contract EVG1-CT-2001-00043 SPREAD. Abstract Wildland fires are a critical natural hazard in many regions of the World. Every year, millions of hectares are burned in Tropical, Boreal and Mediterranean forest, which causes a wide variety of effects, from atmospheric emissions, to ...

Shape and motion are complementary visual features and each appears to be processed in unique cortical areas. However, object motion is a powerful cue for the perception of three-dimensional (3-D) shape, implying that the two types of information--motion and form--are well integrated. We conducted a series of fMRI experiments aimed at identifying the brain regions involved in inferring 3-D shap...

Above ground biomass (AGB) is a parameter commonly used for assessment of grassland systems. Destructive AGB measurements, although accurate, are time consuming and are not easily undertaken on a repeat basis or over large areas. Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry and Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) are two technologies that have the potential to yield precise 3D structural measurement...

The surface structure of mitotic barley chromatin was studied by field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and scanning force microscopy (SFM). Different stages of the cell cycle were accessible after a cell suspension was dropped onto a glass surface, chemical fixed, and critically point dried. Imaging was carried out with metal-coated specimen or uncoated specimen (only for SFM). Th...