this paper presents a mapping procedure for risk mapping of water and wind erosion, whichhelps to identify protective measures needed in the planning and management of natural parks. the map of water erosion risk was developed by combining the original and revised universal soil loss equation methodologies (usle-rusle), and the map of wind erosion risk was developed using quirantes’ method. usi...

introduction pelvic pain results from many causes such as primary dysmenorrhea, uterine anomalies, menstrual outflow obstruction, endometriosis, myoma and adenomyosis. this study reports on a rare case of non-communicating functional rudimentary horn. case presentations a 15-year-old nulligravida young woman with a history of severe intermittent pelvic pain presented a 4-5 centimeter mass. a su...

At the TREC9 conference, we presented a new adaptive filtering system called RELIEFS. This system which is based on the idea of resonance, combines for each term t, the relative frequency of relevance knowing t and the relative frequency of t kwowing relevance. On the basis of other experiments, several changes have been made. We improved our threshold adaption, we slightly changed our relevanc...

This paper presents a new adaptive filtering system called RELIEFS. This system is based on neural mechanisms underlying an information selection process. It is inspired from the cognitive model adaptive resonance theory [Biol. Cybernet. 23 (1976) 121] that proposes a neural explanation of how our brain selects information from its environment. In our approach, resonance, the key idea of this m...

Security for costs and security for claim are interim protective measures available during an arbitration. They are sought when one side is concerned that the other side may not have enough money to pay an adverse costs order or satisfy an award made against it. They require the party against whom they are ordered to set aside a sum of money to satisfy any eventual award or costs order. In theo...

In this paper we propose a simple method to extract edges from Polynomial Texture Maps (PTM) or other kinds of Reflection Transformation Image (RTI) files. It is based on the idea of following 2D lines where the variation of corresponding 3D normals computed from the PTM coefficients is maximal. Normals are estimated using a photometric stereo approach, derivatives along image axes directions a...

The present study examines framing e ects in taxation. In October 1994 the German Minister of Family A airs, Mrs. R onsch, expectedly withdrew her candidacy for a second term after she had triggered o a storm of public indignation, owing to her plan to introduce tax surcharges for childless households in order to nance higher tax reliefs for families with children. Using data of 219 employees ...