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A Deep Learning Trained Clear-Sky Mask Algorithm for VIIRS Radiometric Bias Assessment

Remote Sensing, 2019
Clear-sky mask (CSM) is a crucial influence on the calculating accuracy of the sensor radiometric biases for spectral bands of visible, infrared, and microwave regions.
Xingming Liang, Quanhua Liu, Banghua Yan, Ninghai Sun   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

TRANSFORMING THIRD WORLD CITIES THROUGH GOOD URBAN GOVERNANCE: FRESH EVIDENCE [PDF]

Many Ghanaians believe that introducing multi-party elections at the metropolitan, municipal and district levels would ensure the election of competent people to manage the urban or local economy.
Franklin OBENG-ODOOM
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Associations of cannabis use, tobacco use and co‐use with brain volume: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug worldwide and is often co‐used with tobacco, the leading cause of preventable death. Although cannabis and tobacco have distinct neurobiological actions, their associations with brain volumes are unclear.
Katherine Sawyer, Tom P. Freeman, Martine Skumlien, Esther Walton, Thomas Lancaster, Jorien L. Treur, Valentina Lorenzetti, Anna K. M. Blackwell, Chloe Burke, Richie J. Carr, Constantinos Constantinides, Maisie Cox, Sarah Dance, Shadi Daryan, Sorcha Hamilton, Tom Jenkins, Gemma M. J. Taylor   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial patterns of MODIS-NPP (A) and DLEM-simulated NPP (B) during 2000–2009 and comparison of the DLEM-simulated NPP with MODIS-NPP (C) for 6000 randomly selected grids.

, 2014
Spatial patterns of MODIS-NPP (A) and DLEM-simulated NPP (B) during 2000–2009 and comparison of the DLEM-simulated NPP with MODIS-NPP (C) for 6000 randomly selected grids.
Jia Yang (427274), Xiaoke Wang (548086), Bowen Zhang (595078), Shufen Pan (558238), Hanqin Tian (314078), Zhiyun Ouyang (662246), Chi Zhang (9857), Kamaljit Banger (662247), Qichun Yang (314077), Shree R. S. Dangal (662245), Wei Ren (267391), Chaoqun Lu (558237), Bo Tao (558236), Xia Li (14984)   +13 more
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The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
wiley   +1 more source

Psychometric Evaluation of the Japanese Version of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist in Community Dwellers Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Incident

SAGE Open, 2016
We investigated the psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist–Stressor Specific Version (PCL-S) using baseline data from the Fukushima Health Management Survey.
Hajime Iwasa, Yuriko Suzuki, Tetsuya Shiga, Masaharu Maeda, Hirooki Yabe, Seiji Yasumura,   +6 more
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Changing climates and environments within the complex Middle to Late Pleistocene fill of an overdeepened valley at Niederweningen, Switzerland

Boreas, EarlyView.
Glacially overdeepened valleys in the northern Alpine Foreland preserve Middle to Late Pleistocene sedimentary sequences that may serve as valuable archives for reconstructing past environmental changes in response to shifts in climate. This study presents a multidisciplinary analysis of two sediment cores from the overdeepened Wehntal Valley at ...
Johannes M. Miocic, Nigel Thew, Ruth Drescher‐Schneider, Hans Rudolf Graf, Marlu Kühn, Frank Preusser, Werner H. Schoch, Lucia Wick, Heinz Furrer   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal new product announcement strategies in supply chains: preannouncement or sudden announcement?

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study examines the impact of the new product’s market potential on a manufacturer’s choice between the new product preannouncement (NPP) and the new product sudden announcement (NPS) strategies and their effects on a retailer’s ordering decisions ...
Zhengkai Wang, Qian Zhao, Jianchang Fan, Kaiming Zheng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Continental Impact of European Forest Conservation Policy and Management on Productivity Stability

Remote Sensing, 2019
The ecological impact of continental scale land-use policies that influence forest management is often difficult to quantify. European forest conservation began in 1909 with a marked increase in designated areas with the inception of Natura 2000 in the ...
Adam Moreno, Mathias Neumann, Phillip M. Mohebalian, Christopher Thurnher, Hubert Hasenauer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient-Perceived Benefits of Named-Patient Product Sublingual Immunotherapy in Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma: Primary Results From the ERAPP Real-World Cohort Study. [PDF]

Allergy
Evaluation en vie Réelle de l'Allergo‐Prescription en Pratique (ERAPP) is a large, prospective, real‐world cohort of children and adults initiating named‐patient product sublingual immunotherapy (NPP‐SLIT) in France. More than 80% of patients reported a clinically meaningful, expectation‐anchored benefit (Patient Benefit Index ≥ 1) at 12–15 months. The
Caimmi D, Abouelfath A, Lassalle R, Lignot-Maleyran S, Bignon E, Blin P, Clark E, Cottet J, Carcaillon-Bentata L, Demoly P.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources