Availability of remotely sensed multi-spectral images since the 1980's, which cover three decades of voluminous data could help researchers to study the changing dynamics of bio-physical characteristics of land and water. In this study, we introduce a new methodology to develop homogenised Lake Surface Water Temperature (LSWT) from multiple polar orbiting satellites. Precisely, we developed hom...

During the last five years 48 children, suffering from speech defects, were discovered at Infant Welfare Centres and at medical inspections, and were sent for treatment to the Speech Therapist attached to the Psychiatric Department at the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital, Bournemouth. This procedure now finds its confirmation in the Statutory Rules and Orders, 1945, No. 1076, dealing with...

SIR,-Those of us who have worked in Africa when diabetes appeared to be uncommon must congratulate Dr. A. C. B. Wicks and Professor J. J. Jones (31 March, p. 733), who have extended the observations of other doctors' in Salisbury, Rhodesia. They are beginning to elucidate the role of refined carbohydrates as a factor in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus. If one wishes to state the degree of...

LESLIE T. MORTON and ROBERT J. MOORE, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50. This book was originally conceived as a third edition of John Thornton's slim paperback A select bibliography of medical biography (1961, 1970) but has been so much enlarged and improved that it is rightly presented as a new work. Like its pre...

Vegetation indices (VIs) data derived from satellite imageries play a vital role in land surface vegetation and dynamic monitoring. Due to the excessive noises (e.g., cloud cover, atmospheric contamination) daily VI data, temporal compositing methods are commonly used produce composite minimize negative influence of noise over given time interval. However, series with high resolution were prefe...