Reflectance data in the green, red and near-infrared wavelength region were acquired by the SPOT high resolution visible and geometric imaging instruments for an agricultural area in Denmark (56°N, 9°E) for the purpose of estimating leaf chlorophyll content (Cab) and green leaf area index (LAI). SPOT reflectance observations were atmospherically corrected using aerosol data from MODIS and profi...

The farm tractor fleet in the Brazilian market has increased. They are machines known to emit much noise. Noise can cause severe damage and disturbance people who work directly with around these machines. Therefore, aimed evaluate noise levels emitted by two cab tractors of different engine power, analyzing effect speed distance radius from source on occupational health. level outside inside ca...

A deep knowledge of the hydrodynamics of two-phase flow in millichannels and microchannels is relevant to the design and control of micro structured equipment. While there is plenty of work published in this area, there is a lack of studies over a wide range of dimensionless numbers and some factors have not been properly addressed, such as the role of the Reynolds number, the features of recir...

Academic research, no matter how innovative, will never make a difference in the lives of people unless it is disseminated in an appropriate and timely manner to providers and organizations serving the public. Yet many researchers are not trained, rewarded, or supported to disseminate research findings. The Community Advisory Board (CAB) of the University of California, San Francisco, Center fo...

Constant rise in fuel price in recent times has caused manufacturers of heavy commercial vehicles (HCV) to turn to efficient aerodynamic design of trucks, wagons, tractors as well as trailers. The comparative analysis in this study compares the coefficient of drag of the following four aerodynamic configurations of a tractor-trailer combination: 1. Semi-trailer with no devices. 2. Semi-trailer ...

We explore a method of obtaining combinatorial identities by analysing partially-completed runs of the Coupling from the Past (CFTP) algorithm. In particular, using CFTP for simple symmetric random walk (ssrw) with holding boundaries, we derive an identity involving linear combinations of Cab(s) for different a and b, where Cab(s) is the probability that unconstrained ssrw run from 0 for time n...

Method We retrospectively reviewed medical records of 398 consecutive patients who underwent isolated elective OPCAB with intention-to-treat base from July 2005 to March 2015. 365 patients underwent successful OPCAB, whereas 24 patients were converted to EBS-CAB due to hemodynamic instability. The early and late clinical outcomes were analyzed and then propensity matched analysis was performed ...

We describe an algorithm to compute the zeta function of any Cab curve over any finite field Fpn . The algorithm computes a p-adic approximation of the characteristic polynomial of Frobenius by computing in the Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology of the curve and thus generalizes Kedlaya’s algorithm for hyperelliptic curves. For fixed p the asymptotic running time for a Cab curve of genus g over Fpn i...

This study presents a combined analytical and experimental effort to characterize and improve the ride qua/;ty of the Department Of Energy fractork?i/er combination. The focus is to augment the experimental test results with the use of a high quality computer model. The discussion includes an overview of the finite element model of the vehicle and experimental modal tesf results. Sysfem identif...