Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation’s attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating the adoption of similar legislation. Despite the implications tha...

This paper presents a multi-scale approach for delineating individual tree crowns (ITC) from high spatial resolution imagery. By analyzing the evolution of image gradients over the scale-space constructed with orthogonal wavelets, tree crown boundaries are effectively strengthened while the textures resulted from tree branches and twigs are largely suppressed. Two scale consistency checks, a sc...

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A novel adaptive current biased CLASS-A/shallow AB RF power ampli ̄er is demonstrated in this paper. By theoretical deduction, a prototype is described to improve the linearity of a linear PA. With the realization on Jazz 0:35 m SiGe HBT process and test veri ̄cation, the novel adaptive current biased RF power ampli ̄er shows 3 7 dB improvement of the ACPR at the output power of 19 dBm to meet the...

BACKGROUND Little is known about infection rates for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other diseases that can be transmitted sexually in Bangladeshi women who may be at intermediate levels of risk--that is, women who are not commercial sex workers (CSWs) but whose sexual contacts may include men at high risk for STD. This study examines HIV/hepatitis/STD and other genital tract infections...

BACKGROUND Initial promise of a stand-alone interbody fusion cage to treat chronic back pain and restore disc height has not been realized. In some instances, a posterior spinal fixation has been used to enhance stability and increase fusion rate. In this manuscript, a new stand-alone cage is compared with conventional fixation methods based on the finite element analysis, with a focus on inves...

Large areas of forests in the Pacific Northwest are being transformed to younger forests, yet little is known about the impact this may have on hydrological cycles. Previous work suggests that old trees use less water per unit leaf area or sapwood area than young mature trees of the same species in similar environments. Do old forests, therefore, use less water than young mature forests in simi...

the aim of this study is comparison of soil characteristics and biodiversity in plantation of bald cypress and caucasian alder forest stands in kludeh region (mazandaran province). in order to study biodiversity in forest stands and control region, 10 sample plots (releve) were selected and the name and abundance of plant species of the forest floor were recorded. biodiversity of herbal plants ...