In this paper, a forecasting system is presented. It predicts the presence of oil slicks in a certain area of the open sea after an oil spill using Case-Based Reasoning methodology. CBR systems are designed to generate solutions to a certain problem by analysing historical data where previous solutions are stored. The system explained includes a novel network for data classification and retriev...

purpose: to evaluate agreement between galilei, orbscan ii, and placido disk-based topography in terms of keratometry readings, and anterior and posterior elevation. methods: in this prospective comparative study, 184 eyes of 92 keratorefractive surgery candidates were evaluated with galilei, orbscan ii, and placido disk-based topography. keratometry readings and anterior and posterior elevatio...

The finer resolution observation and monitoring of the global land cover (FROM-GLC) product makes it the first 30 m resolution global land cover product from which one can extract a global water mask. However, two major types of misclassification exist with this product due to spectral similarity and spectral mixing. Mountain and cloud shadows are often incorrectly classified as water since the...

A model of natural terrain is proposed, which describes topography as the summation of scale-dependent periodic spatial structure, and scale-independent fractional noise. These two elements can be varied, and appear related to each other by the sampling theorem and the scale at which the model is applied. The scale-dependent component of the model can be calibrated for any given landscape using...

introduction: aphasia is a common manifestation of stroke and evaluation of relationships of aphasia and brain topography could lead to better understanding of cognitive neurophysiology. methods: 100 stroke patients with aphasia admitted in valie-asr hospital, khorasan since april 2003 were enrolled in this prospective cross-sectional study. diagnosis of stroke and aphasia was made by a neurolo...