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UAV Systems for Photogrammetric Data Acquisition of Archaeological Sites

The use of UAV systems for surveying archaeological sites is becoming progressively more common due to the considerable potential in terms of rapidity of survey, costs and accuracy. The paper presents the first results of the photogrammetric survey of the archaeological site of Himera in Sicily (Italy) using by UAV systems. A complete documentation of the site through the production of a DSM and an ortho image were carried out. The research further evaluated two different image processing workflows: a typical photogrammetric approach and a computer vision approach. An ortho image of the archaeological site with a very high resolution was obtained.
A HIGHER BIOAVAILABILITY AND CONTAMINATION OF TRACE METALS IN PANTAI LIDO THAN SUNGAI SEMERAK : EVIDENCE FROM TRACE METAL CONCENTRATIONS IN Polymesoda expansa AND SURFACE SEDIMENTS

Ecotoxicological studies always focused on the pollutant levels in the biomonitors in order to understand better its distribution and abundance over a geographical range. Distribution of metals in the different tissues of bivalves are means to understand the fate and initial transport of metals from the sources to the final storage site of metals in the biomonitors (Yap et al., 2006a; 2006b). This information is important since those metals stored and bioavailable to the biomonitors are of ecotoxicological relevance. The use of bivalve as a biomonitor of trace metals in the coastal waters are well documented in the literature (Hamed and Emara, 2006; Yap et al., 2006a, 2006b). Marine bivalves are advantageous since the concentrations found in the soft tissues of mussels can provide a time-integrated measurement of metal pollution apart from contamination and bioavailability of metals in the coastal waters (Yap et al., 2006a, 2006b). Since they are sedentary, longlived and widely distributed, their metal body burden can reflect the contamination history of a certain coastal environment (Rainbow, 1995). In Malaysia, Edward et al. (2009) and Yap and Azri (2009) had documented the metal levels in Polymesoda clams. In this study, surface sediments were also analyzed because elevated concentrations of metals have been recorded in mangrove sediments all over the world, which often reflect the long-term pollution caused by human activities (Tanner et al., 2000). Moreover, sediments can also act as sinks of trace metals and they are also agents of sources and transportation of heavy metals in the intertidal area (Bryan and Langston, .1992). Previously, Yap et al. (2002, 2003, 2004) found that Pantai (P.) Lido was a relatively uncontaminated site in comparison to a metal-contaiminated site at Kg. Pasir Puteh. The objective of this study was to determine the concentrations of Cd, Cu, Fe and Ni in the different tissues of clam P. erosa collected from P. Lido and Sg. Semerak besides surface sediments from both sampling sites, with special reference to the reported data from a known metalcontaminated site from Kg. Pasir Puteh. In this study, surface sediments and about 2530 of P. expansa were collected from P. Lido, Johore
Diversity and Relationships of Yield and Quality Traits in Cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.) Genotypes

Cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.) is an important cool season grass species in the moderate climate of Iran. In order to evaluate the yield and quality traits, an experiment was conducted in irrigation conditions using 36 accessions of Dactylis glomerata using a randomized complete block design with three replications in Islamabad, Kermanshah province, Iran in 2010. Characters such as forage dry matter (DM) yield and quality traits were measured. There were significant differences between genotypes for yield and all of quality traits. Results of correlations between traits showed that Crude protein (CP) was positively correlated with total ash and negatively correlated with both water soluble carbohydrates (WSC) and the crude fiber (CF). There were strong negative correlations between digestibility dry matter (DDM) and both acid detergent fiber (ADF). Using Cluster analysis (Ward method), the accessions were classified into five groups. Factor analysis after Varimax rotation revealed that three factors explained 83.63% of total variance. The first and the second factors were related to the forage quality. The third factor was correlated with DM yield. Based on factor analysis and means comparisons, it was concluded that the accessions Karaj197, Zanjan499 and Ghazvin783 were more efficient for both forage yield and quality traits than other accessions of the D. glomerata. However, accession Karaj10112, Russia1551, USA1715 had higher values of the quality traits but lower production. In spite of high forage yield, accessions Marand 255, and Karaj 10113 had a poor quality. Therefore, the accessions with higher forge yield and quality indices were introduced for improving the synthetic varieties.
Egg parameters of the Red Wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus) in agricultural ecosystem of Punjab

The Red Wattled Lapwing is an important bird of the agro-ecosystem of the Punjab state, feeding on insects, seeds and nectar. The present study was carried out to gather information on the egg parameters (morphometry and its components), which is lacking for this species. The eggs were observed in the nest construct-ed in the agricultural fields of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, Punjab. Egg length, width and weight were measured using vernier caliper and portable weighing balance, respectively, in laboratory. The egg parameters like egg volume, specific gravity and shape index were also calculated. Weight of egg components (yolk, albumen and shell) were also measured using weighing balance. Results revealed that average values of egg breadth, length and shape index were: 30. 05Â±0.331 (mm), 41. 29Â±0.573 (mm) and 72. 83Â±0.930, respectively. Whereas whole egg weight, albumen weight, yolk weight, shell weight, albumen percentage, yolk percentage, shell percentage, egg volume and specific gravity were 17. 49Â±0.634(gm),7. 17Â±0.374 (gm), 9. 05Â±0.233 (gm), 1. 26Â±0.070 (gm), 40. 84Â±0.941 (%), 51. 92Â±0.830 (%), 7. 22Â±0.280 (%), 17. 07Â±0.531(cm3) and 1. 02Â±0.009 (gm/cm3), respectively. This study pro-vides important information that can help the avian taxonomists in species classification, as birdâ€™s egg diverges widely in shape, volume, weight and percentage of albumen, yolk and shell. Therefore, we can use the egg parameters as additional information in bird systematic.
A study on the Work Process of Hotels and Residence Hotels effect on the Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction

The objective of this research is to find out how work process influences employee satisfaction, and customer satisfaction to compare hotels and residence hotels in Korea structured equation model. Many previous researches suggested that residence hotels similar hotel because residence hotels service based on the hotel service. As a results, all hypnotists are accepted. Work process positive influence on the employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction positive influence on hotels and residence hotels results as well. this results show that residence hotels service the same as hotel service in Korea. This mean residence hotels are providing stay a long time, expansion of rooms, hallmark and others based on hotel service.
Automatic knowledge extraction from EHRs

Increasing efforts in the collection, standardization, and maintenance of large scale longitudinal electronic health care records (EHRs) across the world provide a promising source of real world medical data with the potential of providing major novel insights of benefit both to specific individuals in the context of personalized medicine, as well as on the level of population-wide health care and policy. The present paper builds upon the existing and intensifying efforts at using machine learning to provide predictions on future diagnoses likely to be experienced by a particular individual based on the person’s existing diagnostic history. The specific model adopted as the baseline predictive framework is based on the concept of a binary diagnostic history vector representation of a patient’s diagnostic medical record. The technical novelty introduced herein concerns the manner in which transitions between diagnostic history vectors are learnt. We demonstrate that the proposed change prima fasciae enables greater learning specificity. We present a series of experiments which demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed techniques, and which reveal novel insights regarding the most promising future research directions.
The possible pollen cone of the Late Triassic conifer Heidiphyllum/Telemachus (Voltziales) from Antarctica

Abstract Fossil leaves of the Voltziales, an ancestral group of conifers, rank among the most common plant fossils in the Triassic of Gondwana. Even though the foliage taxon Heidiphyllum has been known for more than 150 years, our knowledge of the reproductive organs of these conifers still remains very incomplete. Seed cones assigned to Telemachus have become increasingly well understood in recent decades, but the pollen cones belonging to these Mesozoic conifers are rare. In this contribution we describe the first compression material of a voltzialean pollen cone from Upper Triassic strata of the Transantarctic Mountains. The cone can be assigned to Switzianthus Anderson & Anderson, a genus that was previously assumed to belong to an enigmatic group of pteridosperms from the Triassic Molteno Formation of South Africa. The similarities of cuticle and pollen morphology, together with co-occurrence at all known localities, indicate that Switzianthus most probably represents the pollen organ of the ubiquitous Heidiphyllum/Telemachus plant.
SNP-SNP Interactions: Focusing on Variable Coding for Complex Models of Epistasis

Genetic epidemiology is a promising field to identify patterns of disease susceptibility that can be explored in personalized medicine. However, especially for complex traits, the genetic component is likely to be composed of several loci and/or of interactions between them. The last is addressed in this manuscript, which aims to provide an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of statistically-oriented and biologically-oriented approaches for two-SNP interactions. Eight biologically-oriented models of epistasis are discussed, focusing on their implementation, which is exemplified with real data. Additionally, some key technical points (such as reducing statistical power due to multiple testing and use of conceptual considerations) are discussed, and an exploratory step prior to the analysis is proposed to pre-select the models of epistasis to be actually tested. A function (written in R) is provided (under request) to facilitate the implementation of such models (and can be easily modified to implement others). It is stressed that, regardless of the method choice, the biological meaning of the model being tested is critical for correct interpretation of the results.
CREATING A BRAND OF THE INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE THROUGH BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH STAKEHOLDERS

The purpose of this article is to present the creat ion of the brand in the intelligent organization mostly based on the building relationships with sta keholders. In contemporary organizations, a lot of attention is paid to different levels of o rganizational intelligence which is supported by creativeness and innovations of varied groups of interests. Internal and external stakeholders increasingly indicate directly what has the gre atest impact on their satisfaction or dissatisfaction within the cooperation with the enterprise. Many international studies prove that the strong brand increases numbers of advantages for th e rganization such as: raising trust among stakeholders towards the products and the organizat ional culture of the enterprise, giving the chance to build customer loyalty, psychologically e valuating the image of the organization, enabling the company positioning on the market perc eption map and in the cyberspace, stabilizing the market position of the enterprise and ot hers. Stakeholders, in majority, expect more initiatives from the enterprise due to the engageme nt process and the organization can achieve many goals by fulfilling partners` needs and by the creation of the strong brand on the market. Therefore, it can be assumed that building permanen t relationships with stakeholders and strengthening their involvement in the contemporary world of business is of permanent importance in creating the brand and image of each or ganization. The author tries to define the features of the intelligent organization brand and list various aspects of "intelligence" in the company, based on the subject literature and own re sea ch, on the example of a case study presenting the activities of Apple Company.
A structural VAR analysis of renewable energy consumption, real GDP and CO2 emissions: Evidence from India

This study has attempted to analyze the dynamics of renewable energy consumption, economic growth, and CO2 emissions. For the analysis, we used structural VAR approach. Results of unit root tests show that all variables are non-stationary at their level form and stationary in first difference form and cointegration analysis, analyzed through Johansen-Juselius (1990), shows that there is no evidence of cointegration among the test variables. The innovations analysis of study reveals that a positive shock on the consumption of renewable energy source increases GDP and decreases CO2 emissions and a positive shock on GDP have a very high positive impact on the CO2 emissions. The variance decomposition shows the share of consumption of renewable energy source explained a significant part of the forecast error variance of GDP and a relatively smaller or negligible part of the forecast error variance of CO2 emissions.
Detecting moisture transport pathways to the subtropical North Atlantic free troposphere using paired H 2 O- δ D in situ measurements

Abstract. We present two years of in situ measurements of water vapour (H2O) and its isotopologue ratio (δD, the standardized ratio between H216O and HD16O), made at two remote mountain sites on Tenerife in the subtropical North Atlantic. We show that the data – if measured during night-time – are well representative for the lower/middle free troposphere. We use the measured H2O-δD pairs, together with dust measurements and back trajectory modelling for analysing the moisture pathways to this region. We can identify four principally different transport pathways. The air mass transport from high altitudes and high latitudes shows two different scenarios. The first scenario brings dry air masses to the stations, as the result of condensation events occurring at low temperatures. The second scenario brings humid air masses to the stations, due to cross-isentropic mixing with lower-level and more humid air during transport since last condensation (LC). The third pathway is transportation from lower latitudes and lower altitudes, whereby we can identify rain re-evaporation as an occasional source of moisture. The fourth pathway is linked to the African continent, where during summer, dry convection processes over the Sahara very effectively inject humidity from the boundary layer to higher altitudes. This so-called Saharan Air Layer (SAL) is then advected westward over the Atlantic and contributes to moisten the free troposphere. We demonstrate that the different pathways leave distinct fingerprints on the measured H2O-δD pairs.
Human Bioclimatic Conditions, Trends, and Variability in the Athens University Campus, Greece

The objective of this work is the assessment of human thermal bioclimatic conditions in the Athens University Campus (AUC), including the Faculties and their respective Departments of the largest state institution of higher learning in Greece, and among the largest universities in Europe. The analysis of bioclimate was carried out, using the physiologically equivalent temperature (PET), which is based on the energy balance model of the human body. The meteorological data required for the calculation of PET concern hourly values of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and total solar radiation, for the time period 1999–2007. The recorded data sets were obtained from the meteorological station of the Laboratory of Climatology and Atmospheric Environment of the University of Athens. The results revealed the hours of the day in which thermal comfort or stress prevails, as well as the trends and variability of PET, for the studied period. Finally, the intense heat waves occurred during summer 2007 along with extreme cold conditions during December 2003-February 2004 were analyzed in terms of PET classes and compared to the respective average bioclimatic conditions of the study period.
An inequality for the distribution of the Brownian gradient function

The Brownian gradient function of a harmonic function u in the unit disc is shown to be distributionally about as large as the classical area function of u. This distribution function inequality strengthens some integral inequalities of Burkholder and Gundy. If u is a harmonic function on the open unit disc D the classical area and nontangental maximal functions are defined to be, respectively, r 1/2 A,(u)(x) = U(0)2 + Igrad U12 and N,(u)(x) = sup{Iu(z) 1: z E r,(x)l, where P,(x) is the interior of the smallest convex region containing the disc of radius c O, there are positive constants c, C depending only on a and ? but not on u such that fo iP(A,(u)) dx, f rD(N,(u)) dx, and E(D(S(u)) all lie between cE(P(u*) and CE(D(u*), that is, the four functions are (? -equivalent. See [1] and [2]. The two maximal functions have been shown to be still more strongly related in [1], where it is proved that there are positive constants c' and C' Received by the editors January 24, 1972 and, in revised form, May 16, 1972. AMS (MOS) subject classiflcations (1969). Primary 3111, 6062.
TO VISION , COLOUR MODELS AND IMAGE COMPRESSION

The paper presents an introduction to the human vision and perception of colours. Short examples are given for spatial resolution of a normal eye and its colour sensitivity. Several colour models are briefly presented with emphasis on Hue Saturation Value (HSV) model. The concept of the latter is shown as underpinning the implementation of digital image compression. Elements of the paper can be used as introductory to various educational modules/courses on
On the ontological status of autism: the ‘double empathy problem’

In recent decades there has been much debate over the ontological status of autism and other neurological ‘disorders’, diagnosed by behavioural indicators, and theorised primarily within the field of cognitive neuroscience and psychological paradigms. Such cognitive-behavioural discourses abstain from acknowledging the universal issue of relationality and interaction in the formation of a contested and constantly reconstructed social reality, produced through the agency of its ‘actors’. The nature of these contested interactions will be explored in this current issues piece through the use of the term the ‘double empathy problem’, and how such a rendition produces a critique of autism being defined as a deficit in ‘theory of mind’, re-framing such issues as a question of reciprocity and mutuality. In keeping with other autistic self-advocates, this piece will refer to ‘autistic people’, and ‘those who identify as on the autism spectrum’, rather than ‘people with autism’.
Mental Defeat and Cumulative Trauma Experiences Predict Trauma-Related Psychopathology: Evidence From a Postconflict Population in Northern Uganda

The peritraumatic cognitive process of mental defeat, the complete loss of inner resistance, has been identified as a key predictor of PTSD. Yet, most evidence on cognitive risk factors stems from industrialized countries where survivors typically report few traumata. Research from postconflict settings indicates that individual differences decrease with accumulating traumatic experiences, as almost everybody develops PTSD at extreme levels of trauma load. Would this leave less room for the impact of cognitive processes? In a sample of 227 Ugandan rebel war survivors, we investigated whether mental defeat influences trauma-related psychopathology in regression models accounting for cumulative trauma exposure. We found strong main effects of mental defeat on lifetime PTSD risk, current PTSD severity and dissociative symptoms, but no mental defeat × trauma load interaction effects. Our results indicate that peritraumatic mental defeat is central to understand individual differences in psychological reactions after single traumatic events as well as multiple traumatization.
Software Process: Applying Industrial-Strength Methods in Engineering Education

Improving productivity and quality in software development is one of the major concerns of the software engineering discipline, as software systems grow to millions, and soon billions, of lines of code. Productivity and defect density levels that are considered very good today will be inadequate to keep up with this future growth. As a result, software development professionals and organizations are striving to improve existing processes and to develop new ones. One example of demonstrated benefits from these efforts is the success of the Personal Software Process (PSP) and the Team Software Process (TSP) developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. This paper discusses the structure of the TSP and PSP processes, industry experiences with their application, and their relationship to other process improvement frameworks, including the current version of the SEI’s Capability Maturity Model (now known as CMMI). With this background, it reflects on the introduction of the PSP and TSP into software engineering curricula, and reports experiences at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, one of the first four ABET-accredited software engineering programs.
Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity: Is It Accurate to Use a Slab Ocean Model?

Abstract The equilibrium climate sensitivity of a climate model is usually defined as the globally averaged equilibrium surface temperature response to a doubling of carbon dioxide. This is virtually always estimated in a version with a slab model for the upper ocean. The question is whether this estimate is accurate for the full climate model version, which includes a full-depth ocean component. This question has been answered for the low-resolution version of the Community Climate System Model, version 3 (CCSM3). The answer is that the equilibrium climate sensitivity using the full-depth ocean model is 0.14°C higher than that using the slab ocean model, which is a small increase. In addition, these sensitivity estimates have a standard deviation of nearly 0.1°C because of interannual variability. These results indicate that the standard practice of using a slab ocean model does give a good estimate of the equilibrium climate sensitivity of the full CCSM3. Another question addressed is whether the effect.