In the field of geosciences and engineering, situations arise where special attention have to be paid planning UAV-photogrammetric project, that is, terrain with complex geometry steep slopes. The use off-nadir imagery flights at a fixed height above ground level (AGL) are postulated as possible factors considered achieve high accuracies. objective this study is evaluate influence image angle, ...

When making decisions with multiple criteria, a decision maker often thinks in terms of an aspiration point or levels of achievement for the criteria. In multiple objective mathematical programming, solution methods based on aspiration points can generate nondominated solutions using a variety of scalarizing functions. These reference point solution methods commonly use a scalarizing function t...

PURPOSE To evaluate the oncologic outcomes and postoperative complications of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as a salvage therapy after external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) failure in patients with prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between February 2002 and August 2010, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all patients who underwent salvage HIFU for transrectal ultra...

PURPOSE To investigate the safety and feasibility of rapid androgen cycling for men with progressive prostate cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Schedule 1 included a 4-week induction of androgen depletion, followed by 4-week treatment cycles of a monthly gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist, testosterone on days 1 to 7, and an estrogen patch on days 8 to 21. Schedule 2 included a 12-week inductio...

Developments in computer vision, such as structure from motion and multiview stereo reconstruction, have enabled a range of photogrammetric applications using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-based imagery. However, some specific cases still present reconstruction challenges, including survey areas composed steep, overhanging, or vertical rock formations. Here, the suitability geometric accuracy ...

BACKGROUND Red blood cell transfusion benefit during acute myocardial infarction remains unclear in the elderly. We aimed to assess the transfusion impact on 1-year mortality in acute myocardial infarction patients aged ≥65 years, according to their age and hemoglobin nadir. METHODS We included 3316 consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction aged ≥65 years from the "obseRvatoire de...

Stress-related biophysical variables of capital intensive orchard crops can be estimated with proxies via spectral vegetation indices from off-nadir viewing satellite imagery. However, variable viewing compositions affect the relationship between spectral vegetation indices and stress-related variables (i.e., chlorophyll content, water content and Leaf Area Index (LAI)) and could obstruct chang...

This paper describes NaDiR (Naive DIstributional Response generation), a corpus-based system that, from a set of word stimuli as an input, generates a response word relying on association strength and distributional similarity. NaDiR participated in the CogALex 2014 shared task on multiword associations (restricted systems track), operationalizing the task as a ranking problem: candidate words ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the influence of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) kinetics following maximal androgen blockade (MAB) on disease progression and cancer-specific survival in patients with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred thirty-one patients with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer treated with MAB at our institution were included in t...