The use of remote sensing imagery for monitoring recovery in the aftermath of a natural disaster: the Hurricane Katrina Case

Although Recovery is often defined as the less studied and documented phase of the Emergency Management Cycle, a wide literature is available for describing characteristics and sub-phases of this process. Previous works do not allow to gain an overall perspective because of a lack of systematic consistent monitoring of recovery utilizing advanced technologies such as remote sensing and GIS technologies. Taking into consideration the key role of Remote Sensing in Response and Damage Assessment, this thesis is aimed to verify the appropriateness of such advanced monitoring techniques to detect recovery advancements over time, with close attention to the main characteristics of the study event: Hurricane Katrina storm surge. Based on multi-source, multi-sensor and multi-temporal data, the post-Katrina recovery was analysed using both a qualitative and a quantitative approach. The first phase was dedicated to the investigation of the relation between urban types, damage and recovery state, referring to geographical and technological parameters. Damage and recovery scales were proposed to review critical observations on remarkable surge- induced effects on various typologies of structures, analyzed at a per-building level. This wide-ranging investigation allowed a new understanding of the distinctive features of the recovery process. A quantitative analysis was employed to develop methodological procedures suited to recognize and monitor distribution, timing and characteristics of recovery activities in the study area. Promising results, gained by applying supervised classification algorithms to detect localization and distribution of blue tarp, have proved that this methodology may help the analyst in the detection and monitoring of recovery activities in areas that have been affected by medium damage. The study found that Mahalanobis Distance was the classifier which provided the most accurate results, in localising blue roofs with 93.7% of blue roof classified correctly and a producer accuracy of 70%. It was seen to be the classifier least sensitive to spectral signature alteration. The application of the dissimilarity textural classification to satellite imagery has demonstrated the suitability of this technique for the detection of debris distribution and for the monitoring of demolition and reconstruction activities in the study area. Linking these geographically extensive techniques with expert per-building interpretation of advanced-technology ground surveys provides a multi-faceted view of the physical recovery process. Remote sensing and GIS technologies combined to advanced ground survey approach provides extremely valuable capability in Recovery activities monitoring and may constitute a technical basis to lead aid organization and local government in the Recovery management.

Potential and limitations of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in kidney, prostate, and bladder cancer including pelvic lymph node staging: a critical analysis of the literature

Diagnosis, staging, and treatment monitoring are still suboptimal for most genitourinary tumours. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) has already shown promise as a noninvasive imaging modality in the early detection of microstructural and functional changes in several pathologies of various organs.

Identity, Philosophy, and the Problem of Armenian History in the Sixth Century

History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East gathers together the work of distinguished historians and early career scholars with a broad range of expertise to investigate the significance of newly emerged, or recently resurrected, ethnic identities on the borders of the eastern Mediterranean world. It focuses on the "long late antiquity" from the eve of the Arab conquest of the Roman East to the formation of the Abbasid caliphate. The first half of the book offers papers on the Christian Orient on the cusp of the Islamic invasions. These papers discuss how Christians negotiated the end of Roman power, whether in the selective use of the patristic past to create confessional divisions or the emphasis of the shared philosophical legacy of the Greco-Roman world. The second half of the book considers Muslim attempts to negotiate the pasts of the conquered lands of the Near East, where the Christian histories of Hira or Egypt were used to create distinctive regional identities for Arab settlers. Like the first half, this section investigates the redeployment of a shared history, this time the historical imagination of the Qu'ran and the era of the first caliphs. All the papers in the volume bring together studies of the invention of the past across traditional divides between disciplines, placing the re-assessment of the past as a central feature of the long late antiquity. As a whole, History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East represents a distinctive contribution to recent writing on late antiquity, due to its cultural breadth, its interdisciplinary focus, and its novel definition of late antiquity itself.

Book trade bibliography in the United States in the nineteenth century,

A reproduction of "subscriber's copy," no.7 of an edition of 50 copies printed for non-members of the Dibdin Club (including original t.p. with imprint: New York : Printed for the Dibdin Club and for sale by Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London, Eng., 1898)

Children's books in England & America in the seventeenth century : a history and checklist, together with The young Christian's library, the first printed catalogue of books for children.

The young Christian's library is a facsimile reproduction of the Bodleian Library copy of the original ed. published in 1710.

Critical essays of the seventeenth century.

Mode of access: Internet.

A description of the early printed books owned by the Grolier club with a brief account of their printers and the history of typography in the fifteenth century.

Revised edition of the "Catalogue of early printed books, presented by David W. Bruce ... 1894." Descriptive and historical notes by R. H. Lawrence; translations from colophons, etc., by N. G. McCrea.

Books and their makers during the Middle Ages; a study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman Empire to the close of the seventeenth century.

An unaltered and unabridged reprint of the last (1896-1897) edition."

Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece, during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian era.

Atlas has imprint: Dublin, M. Mills, 1795.

Fox's book of martyrs; or, The acts and monuments of the Christian church : being a complete history of the lives, sufferings, and deaths of the Christian martyrs; from the commencement of Christianity to the present period. To which is added an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacres in the Irish rebellions in the years 1641, and 1798, rise, progress, and persecutions of the people commonly called Quakers, together with an account of the Western martyrology, or bloody assizes; with the lives of some of the early eminent reformers ... /

This edition first published 1829 by William Borradaile, New York (Cf. title page verso)

Maps, plans, views and coins, illustrative of the travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian era /

"Critical observations on the maps of ancient Greece, compiled for the Travels of Anacharsis the Younger, by M. Barbié du Bocage": p. [1]-104.

English of the XIVth century: Chaucer's Prologue and Knightes tale (with grammatical and philological notes) designed to serve as an introduction to the study of English literature,

Reissue of first edition, 1872.

The Sacred books and early literature of the East, with historical surveys of the chief writings of each nation...

Each volume has also special t.p.

The Jewish historico-critical school of the nineteenth century ...

Vita.