Phosphorus (P) site assessment is used nationally and internationally to assess the vulnerability of agricultural fields to P loss and identify high-risk areas controlling watershed P export. Current efforts to update P site assessment tools must ensure that these tools are representative of the range of conditions to which they will be applied. We sought to identify key parameters available in...

Recent works in object recognition often use visual words, i.e. vector quantized local descriptors extracted from the images. In this paper we present a novel method to build such a codebook with class representative vectors. This method, coined Cluster Precision Maximization (CPM), is based on a new measure of the cluster precision and on an optimization procedure that leads any clustering alg...

The proposed approach aims to track multiple moving people in a colour video acquired with a single camera. The first phase of the approach consists in precisely detecting multi-human inside moving foregrounds. The input to this phase is foreground pixels which were extracted from the scene using any background subtraction technique. These moving foregrounds are then further segmented into mult...

Introduction: The present study investigated the relatively high concentrations of natural radionuclides in raw material that used in ceramic manufacturing, and estimated the occupational exposure due to these activity concentrations. Material and Methods: A high-purity Germanium detector was used to determine naturally occurring radionuclide...

The long range wide area network (LoRaWAN) is one of the enabling technologies for low power (LPWA) networks. In LoRaWAN, a node transmits its packet to gateway (GW) in an autonomous and decentralized manner. quantity data that can be transmitted by each limited duty cycle (DC). Furthermore, it not easy nodes perform sophisticated techniques increasing due their functionality, especially when a...

The representative fraction, the metric traditionally used by cartographers to characterize the level of geographic detail in a map, is not well-defined for digital geographic data. Increasingly complex and unsatisfactory conventions are needed to preserve this legacy of earlier technology. A series of requirements is defined for replacement metrics. For digital representations of fields six ca...

this study has been carried out to determine the accumulation of heavy metals (arsenic, copper, lead, tin and zinc) in fish samples collected from former tin mining catchment. total eight types of fish family having fifteen different species are identified. cyperinidae is the most abundant family with eight different species found in the catchment. fish samples were analysed by using inductivel...