Land use/cover change mapping is one of the basic tasks for environmental monitoring and management. In recent years, a variety of change detection techniques have been developed. This research compares three change detection techniques, including image differencing, image rationing, and image regression to study land use/cover changes in Falavarjan /Iran. The data sources used in this study we...

abstract many researchers have recently considered the use of data obtained from remote sensing (r.s) to reveal changes. in the present study, we have attempted to reveal the morphodynamic changes in taleghan river basin through image satellite and by analyzing the principal component analysis (pca) and fuzzy logic. the final map indicates the intensity of changes through, 15-years interval obs...

The finding of personality stability in adulthood may be counterintuitive to people who perceive a great deal of change in their own personality. The purpose of this study is to determine whether self-reported perceived changes in personality are associated with actual changes based on a 6- to 9-year follow-up of 2,242 middle-aged male and female participants of the UNC Alumni Heart Study (UNCA...

Recent models of alcohol use in youth and young adulthood have incorporated personality change and maturation as causal factors underlying variability in developmental changes in heavy drinking. Whereas these models assume that personality affects alcohol use, the current prospective study tested the converse relation. That is, we tested whether, after accounting for the effect of traits on dri...

Personality traits can predict how well-sojourners and expatriates adjust to new cultures, but the adjustment process remains largely unexamined. Based on recent findings that reveal personality traits predict as well as respond to life events and experiences, this research focuses on within-person change in contextualized extraversion and its predictive validity for cross-cultural adjustment i...

The relation between the subjective report of memory problems and objective evidence of the same has been debated with mixed results appearing in the literature. Less is known about the relation between objective change in test performance and the perceptions of cognitive change from family members/friends and trained clinicians. These relations were explored using 5-year longitudinal data from...