The use of remote sensing techniques as a suitable solution to estimate the levels of species diversity is of high importance for the sustainable management of forests. In order to investigate the potential of using sensor data from Landsat 7 ETM+ to estimate species diversity in the Zagros forests, digital data related to the August 7, 2002 from forests in the Qalajeh Kermanshah Province were ...

A 985 MeV Hf beam was Coulomb excited by a 208 Pb target at the ATLAS accelerator of Argonne National Laboratory. Gammasphere and the CHICO particle detector recorded particle-γ coincidence data. The aim was to populate and determine the mechanism of previously observed Coulomb excitation of the Kπ = 6 (t1/2 = 77 ns) ,8 (4 s) and 16 (31 y) isomer bands. New rotational bands were identified incl...

The Vaccine and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee meets at least once a year to decide the composition of the influenza vaccine in the U.S. Past evidence suggests that the Committee could use a more systematic approach to incorporate observed information and to quantify the risks associated with different options. There are two key tradeoffs involved in this decision. One, if the Com...

in order to identify the sex marker in mahisefied, rutilus frisii kutum, samples from 5 male and 5 female fish were collected from the south caspian sea. polymerase chain reaction random amplified polymorphic dna (pcr-rapd) was performed using 124 primer sets. all bands were numbered using 1 and 0 scores corresponding to the presence or absence of bands, respectively and data were analyzed usin...

We have studied the mineral normandite using a combination of scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy and vibrational spectroscopy. The mineral normandite NaCa(Mn(2+),Fe(2+))(Ti,Nb,Zr)Si2O7(O,F)2 is a crystalline sodium calcium silicate which contains rare earth elements. Chemical analysis shows the mineral contains a range of elements including Na, Mn(2+), Ca, Fe(2+) a...

Standard models of choice assume that the weight given to information from different sources depends exclusively on its diagnosticity. In this paper we study whether the same piece of information is weighted more heavily simply because it was directly experienced rather than merely observed. We investigate this possibility by conducting repeated game experiments in which groups of players are r...

On the basis of the half-Cauchy distribution, we propose the called beta-half-Cauchy distribution for modeling lifetime data. Various explicit expressions for its moments, generating and quantile functions, mean deviations, and density function of the order statistics and their moments are provided. The parameters of the new model are estimated by maximum likelihood, and the observed informatio...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.11.043 0378-1127/ 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Abbreviations: LB, live biomass; RWI, ring width increment; NBP, net biome production; NPP, net primary production; HR, heterotrophic respiration; DGVM, Global Vegetation Model; CI, confidential interval; T, temperature; CWD, coarse woody debris. ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: Sibyll.Schap...

Natural single-crystal specimens of althausite from Brazil, with general formula Mg2(PO4)(OH,F,O) were investigated by Raman and infrared spectroscopy. The mineral occurs as a secondary product in granitic pegmatites. The Raman spectrum of althausite is characterized by bands at 1020, 1033 and 1044 cm(-1), assigned to ν1 symmetric stretching modes of the HOPO3(3-) and PO4(3-) units. Raman bands...