The authors propose a new method for the assignment of rainfall confidences on a pixel basis using cloud properties derived from optical satellite data during daytime. This approach is based on the concept model that the probability for precipitation is a function of the liquid water path, which in turn can be computed using the satellite-retrieved cloud optical thickness and the cloud effectiv...

Realistic rendering of sky scene is important in virtual environment. Traditional methods are mostly based on skybox, thus failing to realistically simulate the change of sky scene under different weathers and conditions. In this paper, a new sky light model under different weathers for virtual environment is proposed. We first analyze the atmosphere characters of sky scene, and calculate the l...

Background Leptospirosis is a zoonosis caused by the infection of pathogenic bacteria of the genera Leptospira, often transmitted by direct or indirect contact with urine of infected animal hosts [1]. In national territory, leptospirosis is considered an endemic disease, with high incidence in raining seasons, but occurring during the whole year [2]. From all the cases, 15% evolve to the icteri...

ackground: Learned self-control of slow cortical potentials (SCPs) may lead to behavioral improvement in attention-deficit/ yperactivity disorder (ADHD). Hence, training effects should also be reflected at the neurophysiological level. ethods: Thirteen children with ADHD, aged 7–13 years, performed 25 SCP training sessions within 3 weeks. Before and after raining, the German ADHD rating scale w...

Most of mobile tourism recommender systems take into account mainly the users preferences and location when providing personalized suggestions about what to see in the area (either reactively or proactively). MyMap is a mobile recommender system able to provide personalized presentation of objects of interest in the Tourism Domain that exploits two main knowledge sources: the user profile, that...

The questionnaire contained 69 item s in th ree separa te sections. Van T assel and M arlyn Ritchie, and Bonnie Katz of the Social Science T raining and R esearch Lab form ulated the “ coed housing” and “ alcohol” portions. John Reid and the C om m ittee on C am pus Life com posed the section on “ social life” . “ The P lanning and Policy Com ­ m ittee in itiated the survey in com pliance w ith...

The impacts of building envelope designs are significant on indoor thermal environment, especially for naturally ventilated buildings. Parametric façade studies were investigated for various orientations, window sizes and shading devices by using building simulation (ESP-r) and CFD (FLUENT) coupling program to predict indoor thermal environment in an accurate and quick way. Two typical weeks we...

In this paper, we propose a method to analyze the firewall policy or rule-set using Relational Algebra and Raining 2D-Box Model. It can discover all the anomalies in the firewall rule-set in the format that is usually used by many firewall products such as Cisco Access Control List, IPTABLES, IPCHAINS and Check Point Firewall-1. While the existing analyzing methods consider the anomalies betwee...

Abstract—An operational nonlinear Physical Inversion (PIn) algorithm for precipitable and cloud liquid water estimate is described. It is suited for a generic conical scanning satellite microwave radiometer acquisitions over sea, in non-raining conditions. The algorithm does not need any calibration phase, and is independent from the availability of in-situ data, being consistent in different g...