The Surface Realisation Shared Task was first run in 2011. Two common-ground input representations were developed and for the first time several independently developed surface realisers produced realisations from the same shared inputs. However, the input representations had several shortcomings which we have been aiming to address in the time since. This paper reports on our work to date on i...

The focus of this paper is on two types of shortening observed in recent Japanese loanwords and on the trochaic shortening in Fijian. I will argue that the Japanese shortenings take place when a metrically unstable binary foot (extrametrical foot) becomes a stray mora so as to be accommodated into one of the two proposed surface ternary foot structures whereas Fijian Trochaic Shortening occurs ...

Method for surface reflectance estimation with MODIS by means of bi-section algorithm between MODIS and estimated radiance is proposed together with atmospheric correction with sky-radiometer data. Surface reflectance is one of MODIS products and is need to be improved its estimation accuracy. In particular the location near the skyradiometer or aeronet sites of which solar direct, aureole and ...

1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037 2McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139 3Center for Learning and Memory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0805, USA 4Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 ...

In this paper texture analysis techniques are used to segment rough surfaces into regions of homogeneous texture. The performance of three rough surface classifiers was assessed and compared. The classifiers differ in their discrimination as well as their input and computational requirements. Experiments were used to identify the failure modes of the classifiers and to identify which classifier...

Estimating the leaf area of plant species entails many benefits, such as prediction of the productive potential and the achievement of optimal management practices in irrigation, fertilization and soil use. The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of four methods that are commonly employed to estimate leaf area in forage species. Three of these methods are categorized as destructiv...

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in investigating the effects of fretting, a common problem of significant practical importance that can affect a wide range of electrical equipment incurring costly component replacement and expensive equipment downtime. Fretting is defined as accelerated surface damage occurring at the interface of contacting materials subjected to small os...

This paper presents the first prototype of a new method, for assessing solar surface irradiance, benefiting from advanced products derived from recent Earth Observation missions. This method -called Heliosat-4is based on the radiative transfer model libRadtran and will provide direct, diffuse components and spectral distribution of solar surface irradiance every 3 km and 1⁄4 h over Europe and A...