Long-term PM2.5 exposure has been associated with various adverse health outcomes. However, most ground monitors are located in urban areas, leading to a potentially biased representation of true regional PM2.5 levels. To facilitate epidemiological studies, accurate estimates of the spatiotemporally continuous distribution of PM2.5 concentrations are important. Satellite-retrieved aerosol optic...

We evaluate the performance of full waveform LiDAR decomposition algorithms with a high-resolution single band airborne LiDAR bathymetry system in shallow rivers. A continuous wavelet transformation (CWT) is proposed and applied in two fluvial environments, and the results are compared to existing echo retrieval methods. LiDAR water depths are also compared to independent field measurements. In...

Crackles are one of the most important physical signs in clinical medicine. They have an explosive pattern in time domain, with a rapid onset and short duration. The timing, repeatability, and shape of crackles are important parameters for diagnosis. Therefore, automatic detection of crackles and their classification as fine and coarse crackles have important clinical value. Since the multireso...

Mobile applications (apps) are increasingly popular and run on a wide range of different operating systems and devices. Fragmentation is one of the differences between mobile apps and webor desktop based applications and presents a challenge in delivering high quality apps. Automated testing can help to overcome it. This paper presents a case study on designing a continuous delivery pipeline fo...

Sets of equations can be used to specify, implement, and reason about software. We discuss how to automate these tasks for constructor-based, convergent rewrite systems. Using incremental design strategies, we obtain completely deened, consistent, and suuciently complete speciications. Direct implementations of speciications as term rewriting systems serve as software prototypes of systems. We ...

This paper presents a new animation framework for the modeling of gaseous phenomena. We combine particle and grid based techniques in an innovative way. Based on this framework, our system allows for an incremental design of animations. In the first stage, an animator uses particle methods to model the evolution and appearance of gases. Grid based techniques are subsequently employed to compute...

this paper deals with continuous frames and continuous riesz bases. we introduce continuous riesz bases and give some equivalent conditions for a continuous frame to be a continuous riesz basis. it is certainly possible for a continuous frame to have only one dual. such a continuous frame is called a riesz-type frame [13]. we show that a continuous frame is riesz-type if and only if it is a con...

Fullerenes materials have received wide attention due to their biomedical applications such as photodynamic therapy and magnetic resonance imaging [1]. The major limitations of realizing the practical applications of fullerenes are high cost and low production yield [2]. The arc discharge is well known technique for synthesis of carbon base materials. Here, we report the synthesis of fullerene ...