because of large-scale dry regions, salt marsh monitoring is necessary using of remote sensing data's. the aim of this study is to monitor salt kashan using of satellite data's processing. therefore, the satellite images of lissiii sensor were used. initially, the technique of color composite images envi4.8 software was used to clearly distinguish salt. then, principal component analy...

PURPOSE Evaluating quality of life outcomes following prostate cancer treatment is important because different treatments provide similar survival outcomes. A wide variety of quality of life surveys are used with an unknown correlation between domain specific and broad domain instruments. We compared the urinary and sexual outcome measures of the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite, a broa...

Droughts are mainly caused by rainfall deficiencies and high evapotranspiration rates. This article introduces a Factual Drought Index (FDI) as composite index, based on precipitation potential (PET). Its innovation lies in the fact that it does not consider total PET, but only amount of PET exceeds or falls behind corresponding average for certain time period. So far, PET-based indices take in...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Measuring socio-economic deprivation is a major challenge usually addressed through the use of composite indices. This paper aims to clarify the technical details regarding composite index construction. The distribution of some variables, for example unemployment, varies over time, and these variations must be considered when composite indices are periodically re-evaluated. The...

Using optical levitation of individual 3-10-/Lm droplets, we investigate the resonance structure of the light intensity scattered at an angle of approximately 900 by a dielectric droplet, a slightly absorbing droplet, and composite inhomogeneous droplets. We find in all the cases that the resonance structures of dielectric, weakly absorbing, and composite inhomogeneous spheres are almost identi...

Investigating banks’ status has always been a concern to its management and regulatory decisions, which can be carried out by means of income diversification and CAMEL composite. The importance of income diversification is to decline the operation risk. The soundness of banking is also another essential component in the banking industry that can be evaluated by CAMEL. This article’s two primary...

Oil is the driving force for the modern economy as a cheap energy source and its reliable supply of oil is therefore a crucial element of economic growth. Oil resources however, are unevenly distributed and concentrated into only a few, on average, emerging economies. Inefficient and ineffective resource management can jeopardize the secure flow of oil. Especially since these supplying countrie...

Aim: The aim of this study was to measure the radiopacity of seven flowable composite resins (FCRs). Methods: The radiopacity values of Tetric EvoFlow®A3 (Ivoclar Vivadent), PermaFlo®A1 (Ultradent), Filtek Supreme XT®A3 (3M ESPE), wave®A3 (SDI), StarFlow®A2 (Danville Materials), els flow®A3op (Saremco Dental AG) and SYNERGY Nano Formula®A2/B2 (Coltène Whaledent) were determined with reference t...

In this paper, we establish new capacity bounds for the multi-sender unicast index-coding problem. We first revisit existing outer and inner bounds proposed by Sadeghi et al. and identify their suboptimality in general. We then propose a new multi-sender maximal-acyclic-induced-subgraph outer bound that improves upon the existing bound in two aspects. For inner bound, we identify shortcomings o...

We developed a composite compliance index as the sum of the compliance scores for interdialytic weight gain (IDWG), pre-dialysis serum potassium and phosphorus concentrations (each scored from zero to 3, with 3 indicating the poorest compliance), and skipping hemodialysis sessions (scored from zero to 9, with 9 indicating the poorest compliance). We used this composite score to prospectively ev...