Soil salinity phenomena are one of the main problems of arid and semi-arid lands. Saline soils constitute a huge part of Iran, and also threaten its neighboring lands. Therefore, in order to optimum exploitation of such soils, qualitative monitoring is necessary. Recently, remote sensing techniques have been increasingly applied in monitoring soil characteristics. The present study was carried ...

To promote geothermal development in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, this study compiled a database of the geothermal resources of the prefecture, which included chemical data for 786 hot springs, temperature data for 26 natural springs, and subsurface temperature data for 35 wells. A map of the activity index distribution for the entire prefecture was also developed using the Aomori Prefecture Geoth...

We provide an index formula for solutions of variational inequality problems defined by a continuously differentiable function F over a convex set M represented by a finite number of inequality constraints. Our index formula can be applied when the solutions are non-singular and possibly degenerate, as long as they also satisfy the injective normal map (INM) property, which is implied by strong...

OBJECTIVE To measure the effects of increasing mean arterial pressure (MAP) on systemic oxygen metabolism and regional tissue perfusion in septic shock. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Medical and surgical intensive care units of a tertiary care teaching hospital. PATIENTS Ten patients with the diagnosis of septic shock who required pressor agents to maintain a MAP > or = 60 mm Hg after...

This paper presents a method to index ortho-map databases with image-based features and search a map database for regions that match query images of unknown scales and rotations. The proposed method uses image-based features to index the 2D map locations. Image feature extractors normally generate features with location, orientation, shape, and a descriptor for normalized image patch. In a map ...

A pairwise clustering approach is applied to the analysis of the Dow Jones index companies, in order to identify similar temporal behavior of the traded stock prices. To this end, the chaotic map clustering algorithm is used, where a map is associated to each company and the correlation coefficients of the financial time series are associated to the coupling strengths between maps. The simulati...

Let f be a continuous map of a locally compact metric space X into itself. Suppose that S is an isolated invariant set for f and a disjoint union of a fixed finite number of compact sets. We define an index of Conley type for isolated invariant sets admitting such a decomposition and prove some of its properties, which appear to be similar to that of the ordinary Conley index for maps. Our inde...

Map Reduce is used to handle and support massive data sets .rabidly increasing in data size, and big data are imperative today to make an analysis of this data. Map-Reduce gets more helpful information by using two simple functions map and reduce with load balancing, fault tolerance, and high scalability .the most important operation in the analysis process is join. This paper explains new two-...

We implement and extend existing methods to detect salient objects and generate a segmentation map which is used to artistically desaturate the background. We evaluate the performance using a Jaccard similarity metric against the ground truth