Drought is a complex hazard, and it has an impact on agricultural, ecological, and socio-economic systems. The vegetation condition index (VCI), which is derived from remote-sensing data, has been widely used for drought monitoring. However, VCI based on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) does not perform well in certain circumstances. In this study, we examined the utility of th...

Drought events were assessed using remote sensing index MODIS (MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) and Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) over the steppe regions of Algeria between 2000 2012. In this study, Vegetation Condition (VCI) Temperature (TCI) determined from Moderate Resolution Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor. The VCI (Vegetation Index) was based on Normalized Differenc...

Background: Post-induction hypotension frequently occurs and can lead to adverse outcomes. As target-controlled infusion (TCI) obviates the need calculate rate manually helps safer dosing with prompt titration of drug using complex pharmacokinetic models, use TCI may provide a better hemodynamic profile during anesthesia induction. This study aimed compare versus manual induction determine risk...

Objective: To evaluate dental age assessment reliability through Tooth Coronal Index (TCI) method. Material and Methods: The cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans of 160 individuals aged between 20-70 years were analyzed in the present study. height crown, i.e., coronal height, pulp cavity, cavity mandibular second premolars first molars calculated then TCI was measured. actual a subject c...

PURPOSE Traumatic cardiac injury (TCI) is a challenge for trauma surgeons as it provides a short thera- peutic window and the management is often dictated by the underlying mechanism and hemodynamic status. The current study is to evaluate the factors influencing the outcome of TCI. METHODS Prospectively maintained database of TCI cases admitted at a Level-1 trauma center from July 2008 to Ju...

background: target-controlled infusion is a new delivery system for intravenous anesthetic agents with which the anesthetist targets a plasma or effect-site drug concentration to achieve a predetermined effect. with this system, the tedious task of calculating the amount of administered drug required to achieve the target concentration is left in charge of a microprocessor which commands the in...

The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (T&TCI) seems to be the most used measure of a destination’s competitiveness, even though methodology underlying its calculation is characterized by numerous shortcomings. viability T&TCI as reliable country’s competitive capability should stem from ability explain and/or predict performance-related consequences tourism activity within destin...

The psychometric properties of the newest version of the Temperament and Character Inventory (the TCI-R) were evaluated in a large (n = 727) community sample, as was the TCI-140, a short inventory derivative. Facets-to-scale confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses of the TCI-R did not support the organization of temperament and character facet scales within their superordinate domains. Fiv...

Accurate and timely information on urban vegetation (UV) can be used as an important indicator to estimate the health of cities. Due low cost RGB cameras, true color imagery (TCI) has been widely for high spatial resolution UV mapping. However, current index-based classifier-based mapping approaches face problems poor ability accurately distinguish reliance massive annotated samples, respective...