Multichannel Scaler (MCS) electronics are often used in lidar-based photon counting applications. The NASA SBIR Phase-I effort resulted in a highly integrated, low power, USB-based MCS hardware prototype and Windows-based software. The Phase-II project focused on expanding the Phase-I MCS development in creating a complete flexible lidar data acquisition “system-on-a-card." Key motivations in t...

We investigated the relations between numeracy and superior judgment and decision making in two large community outreach studies in Holland (n=5408). In these very highly educated samples (e.g., 30–50% held graduate degrees), the Berlin Numeracy Test was a robust predictor of financial, medical, and metacognitive task performance (i.e., lotteries, intertemporal choice, denominator neglect, and ...

Ecological niche models (ENM) have become a popular tool to define and predict the "ecological niche" of a species. An implicit assumption of the ENMs is that the predicted ecological niche of a species actually reflects the adaptive landscape of the species. Thus in sites predicted to be highly suitable, species would have maximum fitness compared to in sites predicted to be poorly suitable. A...

resistance of streptococcus pneumoniae against penicillin is considered to be of great importance. while low-resistant strains could be treated by penicillin, treatment of highly resistant strains is very difficult and needs broad-spectrum antibiotics. this study was performed in imam khomeini medical center, tehran, iran, from 1999 to 2001 to evaluate pneumococcal resistance against penicillin...

Very well known problems such as the fragility problem, the AOP paradox, or the aspect interference problem threaten aspect oriented application in the modeling phase. In this work we explore FVS, a declarative visual language, as an aspect-oriented modeling language. Our language exhibits a very flexible and rich joinpoint model to leverage aspect-oriented application and is suitable for incre...