The delineation and classification of forest stands is a crucial aspect of forest management. Object-based image analysis (OBIA) can be used to produce detailed maps of forest stands from either orthophotos or very high resolution satellite imagery. However, measures are then required for evaluating and quantifying both the spatial and thematic accuracy of the OBIA output. In this paper we pres...

Verbs are central to sentence processing, as they encode argument structure (AS) information, i.e., information about the syntax and interpretation of the phrases accompanying them. The behavioral and neural correlates of AS processing have primarily been investigated in sentence-level tasks, requiring both verb processing and verb-argument integration. In the current functional magnetic resona...

Recently, there is an increasing demand for information on actual land use/land cover (LU/LC) from planning, administration and scientific institutions. Remote sensing combined with GIS tools can give quick reply providing timely information products in different geometric and thematic scales. Anyway the effort to make the land use map by visual interpretation is still very high and cannot keep...

This paper is a brief survey of advance technological aspects of Digital Image Processing which are applied to remote sensing images obtained from various satellite sensors. In remote sensing, the image processing techniques can be categories in to four main processing stages: Image pre-processing, Enhancement, Transformation and Classification. Image pre-processing is the initial processing wh...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of given-new ordering on word order change and topic marker WA, using a self-paced reading task. The results demonstrated that OACCSNOMV is sensitive to given-new information, but SNOMOACCV, STOPOACCV, and OTOPSNOMV are not. This fact can be explained by the Markedness Principle for Discourse Rule Violation (Kuno, 1987: 212): both SNOMOA...

Worldwide urbanization has significantly changed the landscape in recent decades, which resulted in an urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. This study quantitatively analyzed the spatiotemporal changes of the urban heat island (UHI) of Zhangzhou estuary city of China, in the context of urbanisation using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) thermal images acquire...

Method: case study and analysis of thematic content in the stages of unity of meaning, condensed meaning unity, interpretation of the underlying meaning, sub-theme and theme. Nine nurse managers participated. The data collection was done through a script with questions that, according to the convenience of the participants, were answered by electronic mail. The data were analyzed in the light o...