An experimental site was set up in a large, flat and homogeneous area of rice crops for the validation of satellite derived land surface temperature (LST). Experimental campaigns were held in the summers of 2002-04, when rice crops show full vegetation cover. LSTs were measured radiometrically along transects covering an area of 1 km. A total number of four thermal radiometers were used, which ...

Reflex responses in jaw-opening muscles can be evoked when a brittle object cracks between the teeth and suddenly unloads the jaw. We hypothesized that this reflex response is flexible and, as such, is modulated according to the instructed goal of biting through an object. Study participants performed two different biting tasks when holding a peanut half stacked on a chocolate piece between the...

We present a planar design of a metamaterial exhibiting electromagnetically induced transparency that is amenable to experimental verification in the microwave frequency band. The design is based on the coupling of a split-ring resonator with a cut-wire in the same plane. We investigate the sensitivity of the parameters of the transmission window on the coupling strength and on the circuit elem...

Wide area mobile networks facilitate TCP/IP with radio link protocols (RLP) in order to achieve acceptable throughput. Varying channel properties, roaming etc. which interfere with the TCP retransmission and congestion control mechanisms can be alleviated by split connection techniques and performance enhancing proxies (PEP). However, current split connection techniques and PEP do not sufficien...

The effects of spatial attention and part-whole configuration on recognition of repeated objects were investigated with behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) measures. Short-term repetition effects were measured for probe objects as a function of whether a preceding prime object was shown as an intact image or coarsely scrambled (split into two halves) and whether or not it had been atte...

We consider a variety of dynamic, hardware-based methods for exploiting load/store parallelism, including mechanisms that use memory dependence speculation. While previous work has also investigated such methods [19,4], this has been done primarily for split, distributed window processor models. We focus on centralized, continuous-window processor models (the common configuration today). We con...

On the basis of the radiative transfer theory, this paper addressed the estimate ofLand Surface Temperature (LST) from the Chinese first operational geostationarymeteorological satellite-FengYun-2C (FY-2C) data in two thermal infrared channels (IR1,10.3-11.3 μ m and IR2, 11.5-12.5 μ m ), using the Generalized Split-Window (GSW)algorithm proposed by Wan and Dozier (1996). The coefficients in the...

We consider an extension o f the Split Delivery Vehicle R outing Problem , whereby custom ers may have a tim e window on their delivery. A construction heuristic is developed which uses a look-ahead approach to solve the Split Delivery Vehicle Scheduling Problem with T im e W indow s. T w o im provem ent heuristics are also given: one attem pts to m ove custom ers between routes, while the othe...

The increase in the stock price that is too high causes demand for purchase of to decrease, and affects liquidity stock. To avoid these conditions, companies can take split actions which are expected liquidity. This study aims determine effect splits on prices, trading volume returns listed Indonesia Stock Exchange. population this sample used were 45 carried out a 2015-2019 period with samplin...

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA Earth Observing System satellites Terra and Aqua include infrared bands that are designed for the accurate measurement of sea-surface temperature (SST). In addition to the conventional ‘split-window’ bands in the 10-12 μm atmospheric window (similar in spectral properties to the corresponding channels of the heritage instrume...