Vegetation structure and density affect the dynamics of snow accumulation and ablation. Vegetation also affects our ability to estimate snow-covered area accurately from satellite-based sensors. The objective of this case study is to demonstrate how the angular pattern of reflectance from vegetation over snow can provide information on forest cover density. Imagery from the Multi-angle Imaging ...

Notre Dame student, Jim Kearns, along with a friend, James Brown of St. Louis UniVl'rsity recently wrote a hook exploring the relationship between the War in Vietnam and the generation gap. The book, Hra of Challenge, is due to he published in paperback form next week by tile !3. lieder Book Co. of St. Louis. The hook looks at the comnews media. They conclude that these stereotypes prevent dial...

A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936, Photo: Arthur Rothstein The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming...

Bilateral Free Trade Agreement (BTAs) have been proliferating. The outcome of this proliferation of often overlapping BTAs and PTAs is described as the spaghetti bowl effect or, in the Asian region, the noodle bowl effect. This is costly, and welfare reducing. How do we remedy the situation? In this paper, we consider the various options proposed in dealing with the spaghetti bowl, and assess t...

The vibratory bowl feeder is the oldest and still most common approach to the automated feeding (orienting) of industrial parts. In this paper we consider a class of vibratory bowl filters that can be described by removing polygonal sections from the track; we refer to this class of filters as traps. For an n-sided polygonal part and an m-sided polygonal trap, we give an O(nm log n) algorithm t...

The article presents translation of the inscriptions on a big glazed bowl Azerbaijani origin from excavations Azak. This find is unique for archaeology Golden Horde. For first time, since moment discovery, full translation, preserved part an inscription published. poetic text belongs to previously unknown poet, Mokhi Al Din Ali Olnasser. one most voluminous epigraphic monuments found during Hor...