International Journal of Remote Sensing Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713722504 Gaps-fill of SLC-off Landsat ETM+ satellite image using a geostatistical approach C. Zhang a; W. Li a; D. Travis b a Department of Geography, Kent State University, b Department of Geography and Geology, Universit...

This paper presents TrAVis (Tracking Data Analysis and Visualization Tools), a Web-based system that assists the students in visualizing their communication activities in distance learning situations. While most of the existing systems in the same genre are exclusively dedicated to the teachers, TrAVis is objectively designed and implemented for both teachers and students. In particular, TrAVis...

Does having more knowledge or interest in the topics used in example problems facilitate or hinder learning in statistics? Undergraduates enrolled in Introductory Psychology received a lesson on central tendency. Following the lesson, half of the students completed a worksheet with a baseball cover story while the other half received a weather cover story. Learning was assessed using a quiz tha...

Although a firm’s use of shorter-term debt can potentially help it to reduce agency costs of debt and align managers’ interests with those of shareholders, the use of this type of debt increases the firm’s refinancing risk. We hypothesize that firms with debt that has a shorter maturity hold larger cash reserves to reduce important costs they could incur if they have difficulty refinancing thei...

Although storm tracking algorithms are a key ingredient of nowcasting systems, evaluation of storm tracking algorithms has been indirect, labor intensive or non-specific. In this paper, we introduce a set of easily computable bulk statistics that can be used to directly evaluate the performance of tracking algorithms on specific characteristics. We apply the evaluation method to a diverse set o...

The Eskimo language Kalaallisut (alias West Greenlandic) has traditionally been described as having a rich tense system, with three future tenses (Kleinschmidt 1851, Bergsland 1955, Fortescue 1984) and possibly four past tenses (Fortescue 1984). Recently however, Shaer (2003) has challenged these traditional claims, arguing that Kalaallisut is in fact tenseless. This paper settles the debate, i...

Depending on whether and how argumental Free Relatives (FRs) resolve instances of case conflict between the requirements of the External (i.e., the matrix) and the Internal (i.e., the relative) Predicate, they can be classified into three main categories: (i) Strictly Matching FRs (e.g., Polish), where the FR pronoun has to comply in morphological case with both predicates (Citko 2000), (ii) I(...