286 research outputs found
Remote sensing of Earth terrain
Remote sensing of earth terrain is examined. The layered random medium model is used to investigate the fully polarimetric scattering of electromagnetic waves from vegetation. The model is used to interpret the measured data for vegetation fields such as rice, wheat, or soybean over water or soil. Accurate calibration of polarimetric radar systems is essential for the polarimetric remote sensing of earth terrain. A polarimetric calibration algorithm using three arbitrary in-scene reflectors is developed. In the interpretation of active and passive microwave remote sensing data from the earth terrain, the random medium model was shown to be quite successful. A multivariate K-distribution is proposed to model the statistics of fully polarimetric radar returns from earth terrain. In the terrain cover classification using the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, the applications of the K-distribution model will provide better performance than the conventional Gaussian classifiers. The layered random medium model is used to study the polarimetric response of sea ice. Supervised and unsupervised classification procedures are also developed and applied to synthetic aperture radar polarimetric images in order to identify their various earth terrain components for more than two classes. These classification procedures were applied to San Francisco Bay and Traverse City SAR images
Dynamical generation of fuzzy extra dimensions, dimensional reduction and symmetry breaking
We present a renormalizable 4-dimensional SU(N) gauge theory with a suitable
multiplet of scalar fields, which dynamically develops extra dimensions in the
form of a fuzzy sphere S^2. We explicitly find the tower of massive
Kaluza-Klein modes consistent with an interpretation as gauge theory on M^4 x
S^2, the scalars being interpreted as gauge fields on S^2. The gauge group is
broken dynamically, and the low-energy content of the model is determined.
Depending on the parameters of the model the low-energy gauge group can be
SU(n), or broken further to SU(n_1) x SU(n_2) x U(1), with mass scale
determined by the size of the extra dimension.Comment: 27 pages. V2: discussion and references added, published versio
Semiconductor Lasers: Physics and Applications
Contains an introduction and reports on eight research projects.MIT Lincoln Laboratory Contract BX-6558MIT Lincoln LaboratoryU.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research/MUR
Electromagnetic Wave Theory and Applications
Contains table of contents for Section 3, research summary and reports on six research projects.Joint Services Electronics Program (Contract DAAL 03-86-K-0002)Joint Services Electronics Program (Contract DAAL 03-89-C-0001)U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research (Contract N00014-86-K-0533)National Science Foundation (Contract ECS 86-20029)U.S. Army Research Office (Contract DAAL03 88-K-0057)International Business Machine CorporationSchlumberger-Doll ResearchNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (Contract NAG 5-270)U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research (Contract N00014-83-K-0258)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Contract NAG 5-769)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Waterways Experimental Station (Contract DACA39-87-K-0022)Simulation TechnologiesU.S. Air Force - Rome Air Development Center (Contract F19628-88-K-0013)U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research (Contract N00014-89-J-1107)Digital Equipment Corporatio
Electromagnetic Wave Theory and Applications
Contains table of contents for Section 3, reports on six research projects and a list of publications and conference papers.Joint Services Electronics Program Contract DAAL03-89-C-0001National Science Foundation Grant ECS 86-20029Schlumberger- Doll ResearchU.S. Army Research Office Contract DAAL03 88-K-0057U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Contract N00014-90-J-1002National Aeronautics and Space Administration Grant NAGW-1617U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J-1107National Aeronautics and Space Administration Grant NAGW-1272National Aeronautics and Space Administration Agreement 958461U.S. Army - Corps of Engineers Contract DACA39-87-K-0022U.S. Air Force - Electronic Systems Division Contract F19628-88-K-0013U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J-1019Digital Equipment CorporationIBM CorporationU.S. Department of Transportation Contract DTRS-57-88-C-00078Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency Contract MDA972-90-C-002
Endogenous adenine mediates kidney injury in diabetic models and predicts diabetic kidney disease in patients
Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) can lead to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and mortality; however, few mechanistic biomarkers are available for high-risk patients, especially those without macroalbuminuria. Urine from participants with diabetes from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study, the Singapore Study of Macro-angiopathy and Micro-vascular Reactivity in Type 2 Diabetes (SMART2D), and the American Indian Study determined whether urine adenine/creatinine ratio (UAdCR) could be a mechanistic biomarker for ESKD. ESKD and mortality were associated with the highest UAdCR tertile in the CRIC study and SMART2D. ESKD was associated with the highest UAdCR tertile in patients without macroalbuminuria in the CRIC study, SMART2D, and the American Indian study. Empagliflozin lowered UAdCR in nonmacroalbuminuric participants. Spatial metabolomics localized adenine to kidney pathology, and single-cell transcriptomics identified ribonucleoprotein biogenesis as a top pathway in proximal tubules of patients without macroalbuminuria, implicating mTOR. Adenine stimulated matrix in tubular cells via mTOR and stimulated mTOR in mouse kidneys. A specific inhibitor of adenine production was found to reduce kidney hypertrophy and kidney injury in diabetic mice. We propose that endogenous adenine may be a causative factor in DKD.</p
Electromagnetic Wave Theory and Applications
Contains table of contents for Section 3 and reports on seven research projects.Joint Services Electronics Program Contract DAAL03-89-C-0001National Science Foundation Contract ECS 86-20029Schlumberger- Doll ResearchU.S. Army Research Office Contract DAAL03 88-K-0057National Aeronautics and Space Administration Contract NAGW-1617U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Contract N00014-89-J-1107National Aeronautics and Space Administration Contract NAGW-1272National Aeronautics and Space Administration Contract 958461Simulation Technologies Contract DAAH01-87-C-0679U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Contract DACA39-87-K-0022WaveTracer, Inc.U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Contract N00014-89-J-1019U.S. Air Force Systems - Electronic Systems Division Contract F19628-88-K-0013Digital Equipment CorporationInternational Business Machines CorporationU.S. Department of Transportation Contract DTRS-57-88-C-0007
Electromagnetic Wave Theory and Applications
Contains table of contents for Section 3, reports on four research projects and a list of publications.National Aeronautics and Space Administration Grant NAGW-1617National Aeronautics and Space Administration Agreement 958461National Aeronautics and Space Administration Grant NAGW-1272U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Contract DACA39-87-K-0022U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J-1107U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-92-J-1616Digital Equipment CorporationJoint Services Electronics Program Contract DAAL03-92-C-0001U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-1002U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J-1019U.S. Department of Transportation Agreement DTRS-57-88-C-00078TTD13U.S. Department of Transportation Agreement DTRS-57-88-C-00078TTD30U.S. Department of Transportation Agreement DTRS-57-92-C-00054TTD1DARPA/Consortium for Superconducting Electronics Contract MDA972-90-C-0021National Science Foundation Fellowship MIP 88-5876
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