Recently, a rapid decline in the quality of Indian tea production has been observed due to the old age of the plantations, disease and pests infestations and frequent application of pesticides and insecticides. This paper shows an application of remote sensing and GIS technologies for monitoring tea plantations. We developed an approach for monitoring and assessing tea bush health using texture...

Semivariogram functions are compared to cooccurrence matrices for classification of digital image texture, and accuracy is assessed using test sites. Images acquired over the following six different spectral bands are used: 1) SPOT HRV, near infrared; 2) Landsat thematic mapper (TM), visible red; 3) India Remote Sensing (IRS) LISS-II, visible green; 4) Magellan, Venus, S-band microwave; 5) shut...

Literature data related to the Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS) are presented on verapamil hydrochloride, propranolol hydrochloride, and atenolol in the form of BCS-monographs. Data on the qualitative composition of immediate release (IR) tablets containing these active substances with a Marketing Authorization (MA) in the Netherlands (NL) are also provided; in view of these MA’s th...

This article seeks to elucidate the trajectory of development in adolescents and adults with autism. Prospective, retrospective, and cross-sectional studies are reviewed to reveal themanifestation of and changes in the core symptoms of autism in adolescence and adulthood. Comparing children with adolescents and adults, modest degrees of symptom abatement and improvement in skills have been docu...

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This paper investigates the relationship between cognitive and affective empathy and bullying. A bullying questionnaire was completed by 376 males and 344 females aged about 15 in Hertfordshire. Low affective empathy was significantly related to bullying for females, but not for males. However, for both males and females low affective empathy was related to frequent vs. occasional bullying. Low...

Parosteal osteosarcoma is a low-grade malignant bone tumor arising from the distal femur and tibia. Wide resection of a parosteal osteosarcoma usually prevents local recurrence. In literature, hemicortical resections of low-grade malignant bone tumors and allograft reconstruction are described. We describe a new method of resection and reconstruction of parosteal osteosarcoma located in the pop...

Theallostericmechanismbywhich the gene expression regulatory protein AraC regulates its DNA-binding activity is shown to be portable by grafting it to -galactosidase, generating an arabinose-regulated -galactosidase. A portion of the -peptide sequence that complements the activity of -acceptor -galactosidase was inserted into a nonessential region of the regulatory peptidyl arm of AraC protein....

Targeting specific sites in vivo for the delivery of therapeutic compounds presents a major obstacle to the treatment of many diseases. One targeted delivery technique that has gained prominence in recent years is the use of magnetic nanoparticles. In these systems, therapeutic compounds are attached to biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles and magnetic fields generated outside the body are focu...

That associative processing provides the vehicle of thought is a long-standing idea. We describe here observations from cognitive neuroimaging that elucidate the neural processing that mediates this element. This account further allows a more specific ascription of a cognitive function to the brain’s ‘‘default’’ activity in mindwandering. We extend this account to argue that one primary outcome...