the equivalent noise level in large cities has been growing due to the population growth, uncontrolled production of cars, and the existence of worn out cars. on the other hand, heavy traffic has increased the amount of noise problems for residents of medical and educational centers, research institutes and residential area (or sensitive centers to noise) built in highway bounds and it has also...

Der Kohlenstoffhaushalt der Waldökosysteme ausgewählter ICP Forests Level II-Flächen wurde im Rahmen des FutMon-Projektes mit dem Modell BIOME-BGC (Version ZALF) simuliert. Die Level II-Datenbank des vTI-Instituts für Weltforstwirtschaft sowie zusätzliche Daten nationaler Forstinstitute bildeten die Datengrundlage für die Initialisierung und Kalibrierung des Modells. Mit dem kalibrierten Modell...

Background and Objectives: Ethiopia’s food insecurity will increase unless it can dramatically boost agricultural productivity. In 1993, the Sasakawa/Global 2000 Program (SG) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) began a joint program to demonstrate that substantial productivity increases could be achieved when farmers were given appropriate extension messages and agricultural inputs were deliv...

Droughts are projected to occur more frequently with future climate change of rising temperature and low precipitation. However, its impact on regional and global vegetation production is not well understood, which in turn contributes to uncertainties to model carbon sequestration under drought scenarios. Using long-term continuous eddy covariance measurements (168 site-year), we present an ana...

Many types of parameters have been proposed for the evaluation of vocal cord abnormalities by speech waveform analysis. However, none of them taken separately allows a reliable assessment of the presence and the degree of abnormality. In this study we proposed to combine three different parameters which take into account different consequences of the hoarseness. To assess the effectiveness of t...

We present an overview of the first shared task on language identification on codeswitched data. The shared task included code-switched data from four language pairs: Modern Standard ArabicDialectal Arabic (MSA-DA), MandarinEnglish (MAN-EN), Nepali-English (NEPEN), and Spanish-English (SPA-EN). A total of seven teams participated in the task and submitted 42 system runs. The evaluation showed t...

Phenological shifts in events such as flowering and bud break are important indicators of ecosystem processes, and are therefore of particular significance for carbon (C) cycle research. Using long-term flux data from three contrasting plant functional type (evergreen and deciduous) boreal forest sites, we evaluated and compared the responses of annual C fluxes to multiple spring phenological i...

We have used data from the deepest region of the ROSAT All−Sky Survey, the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) region, to produce a complete and unbiased X−ray selected sample of distant clusters to understand the nature of cluster evolution and determine implications for large scale structure models. In this contribution results are presented from a comparison between the number of the observed clusters...

Figures of merit condensing the performance parameters of radiation sensors such as responsivity, noise equivalent power, and time constant in a single number can be useful for rating the performance of a particular sensor in comparison to other ones or to fundamental performance limits. The classification system and the figures of merit of radiation sensors introduced by R. C. Jones are revisi...