The aim of this study was to follow the response to drought stress in a Poa pratensis canopy exposed to various levels of soil moisture deficit. We tracked the changes in the canopy reflectance (450–2450 nm) and retrieved vegetation properties (Leaf Area Index (LAI), leaf chlorophyll content (Cab), leaf water content (Cw), leaf dry matter content (Cdm) and senescent material (Cs)) during a drou...

We investigate the validity of the assumption of neglecting carrier tunneling effects on self-consistent electrostatic potential in calculating direct tunneling gate current in deep submicron MOSFETs. Comparison between simulated and experimental results shows that for accurate modeling of direct tunneling current, tunneling effects on potential profile need to be considered. The relative error...

We conducted a monitor-based subjective study on multilevel halftone. Observers in a halftone preference experiment selected stimuli in a paired comparison design. Images were halftoned using multilevel stochastic screening and multilevel error diffusion. Stimuli were presented on a calibrated monitor from distances equivalent to viewing 300 and 600 dpi prints. We applied Thurstone's law of com...

A theory of superefficiency and adaptation is developed under flexible performance measures which give a multiresolution view of risk and bridge the gap between pointwise and global estimation. This theory provides a useful benchmark for the evaluation of spatially adaptive estimators and shows that the possible degree of superefficiency for minimax rate optimal estimators critically depends on...

One of the recently proposed tools for controlling software inspections is capture-recapture models. These are models that can be used to estimate the number of remaining defects in a software document after an inspection. Based on this information one can decide whether to reinspect a document to ensure that it is below a prespecified defect density threshold, and that the inspection process i...

In [Z. Cai, T. Manteuffel, and S. F. McCormick, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 34 (1997), pp. 425–454], an L2-norm version of first-order system least squares (FOSLS) was developed for scalar second-order elliptic partial differential equations. A limitation of this approach is the requirement of sufficient smoothness of the original problem, which is used for the equivalence of spaces between (H1)d and...

Problem: Leakage of the transmission fluid or oil in powertrain systems (i.e., transmissions, cylinder heads, engine blocks, etc.) can cause engine overheating and/or permanent damage. Therefore, it is crucial to run a leak test to inspect for any possible porosity in the casting parts. However, the inspection results for the amount of leakage at given testing times are sensitive to the tested ...

Fagan inspections can be used to find errors in documents used during systems development. In the practice of Fagan inspections it has been found that Group Support Systems (GSSs) can significantly enhance error detection [1]. This paper describes our findings on the use of a GSS by Fagan inspection teams in an experimental set-up. In this study, 24 students and 24 managers participated; they l...

Brualdi, R.A., N. Cai and VS. Pless, Orphan structure of the first-order Reed-Muller codes, Discrete Mathematics 102 (1991) 239-247. We investigate a method of combining two codes which we call the outer product. First-order Reed-Muller codes are outer products of a number of copies of the full binary space of length 2, and we apply our results to obtain cosets of the Reed-Muller codes which ha...

Multiple deferred state (MDS) sampling plan by attribute in which current lot and future lots information is utilised on sentencing submitted lot, is constructed under the assumption of perfect inspection. But sometimes the inspection may not be free of inspection errors. In this paper, we develop MDS-plan by attribute to the state where misclassification errors exist during the inspection. In ...