... equations to calculate the flows in the natural rivers or meandering channels, the boundary-fitted curvilinear coordinates were introduced The use of curvilinear coordinates can overcome the problems ... hydrostatic; hence they possess the advantage of reduction in computational cost while maintaining the accuracy when applied to flow in a channel with linear or almost linear bottom/bed But indeed, in ... the contravariant velocity vector V (U , V , W ) in curvilinear coordinate andits counterpart v(u , v, w) in Cartesian coordinate system is V i = c ij v j , or i vi = c j V j (3.7) The conditions...
... music samples, respectively Music sample Classical 1–4 Classical 5–8 Classical 9–12 Classical 13–16 Classical 17–20 Classical 21–24 Classical 25–28 Classical 29–32 Classical 33–36 Classical 37–40 ... classification accuracy is determined This operation is repeated for all samples in the dataset The number of correctly classified cases is used to calculate the classification accuracy rate Since each ... 37–40 Classical 41–44 Classical 45–48 Classical 49–52 Classical 53–56 Rock 1–4 Rock 5–8 Rock 9–12 Rock 13–16 Rock 17–20 Rock 21–24 Rock 25–28 Rock 29–32 Rock 33–36 Rock 37–40 Rock 41–44 Rock 45–48...
... numerous domains and applications, including structured or unstructured text from web pages, emails, documents and blogs; medical, biological, climate, commercial transactions, internet activities, ... feedback adjusts the final confidence score which is constituted by a linear combination of difference confidence values and weights on sources during the predictive process Lately a few machine ... because it leverages human perception, intelligence and reasoning capability, and cooperates with the automatic computing in solving complex real-world problems Earlier research in VA and its...
... physics and their wide industrial applications, such as in building insulation, cooling of electronic instruments, solar panel collectorreceivers and cooling systems of nuclear reactors etc The ... implications, particularly in the electronic PCB cooling and 17 Chapter Introduction and Literature Review microelectronic fabrication industries The predominant factors driving this natural convection ... the natural convection from an eccentric hot circular cylinder placed inside a cold enclosure at different Ra When the hot cylinder is displaced along the vertical centreline of the enclosure, the...
... interested in using metallic nanowires as the next generation of interconnects in CPUs because conventional copper electrical interconnects have been becoming the major bottleneck for the IC industry5 ... solution 24 containing HAuCL4 and a weaker reducing agent, ascorbic acid, and a surfactant-directing agent, CTAB The addition of the ascorbic acid will reduce Au (III) to Au (I) in the presence of ... between SPs and electromagnetic fields breeds a fast expanding discipline in the past decades named plasmonics4, attracting a wide spectrum of scientists including physicists, chemists, and even...
... Alarm C Coriolis force CC correlation coefficient CSI Critical Success Index d Correct Rejection D density of the air F friction force FAR False Alarm Ratio Fi forecast value F means of the forecast ... economic development and human engineering increasing, flood disasters have been increasing Many cities are often affected by rainstorms and floods Flood forecasting has become a public concern ... performance of TM rainfall nowcasting model Propose a combined rainfall forecasting model, a combined rainfall model resulting from NWP and from TM The combined rainfall forecasting covered the...
... the objects may include the differences in positioning, viewing angles, scales, limitation of the data capturing devices and timing In the face detection and the face identification applications, ... different combination mechanisms used, the Combiner Ĉ can be categorized into: combiners based on the combination by voting mechanism (used by the Bagging, the ECOC, and the AdaBoost algorithms) and combiners ... it is becoming more and more difficult to collect enough and good training patterns Non-perfect training samples will increase the complexity of the input space and results in a problem commonly...
... Sequence (5’-3’) GCT TAA CAC ATG CAA GT GCC TAA CAC ATG CAA GT GCC TAA TAC ATG CAA GT GCC TTA CAC ATG CAA GT Examples of perfectly matched targets Bacteroides spp Nitrobacter spp Escherichia coli ... Hybridization cDNA Complementary DNA CF Calibration Factor CFU Colony Forming Units CT Threshold Cycle Cy3 Cyanine Cy5 Cyanine DGGE Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid dNTP ... predominant in human feces and can play a significant role in maintaining the host health (Guarner and Malagelada, 2003) For example, species like B vulgatus and B caccae can colonize the surface...
... Reaction mechanism 164 7.3 Conclusions 167 References 168 Chapter Dynamic kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols combining 176 enzyme-catalyzed transesterification with zeolite-catalyzed racemization ... Zirconium propoxide grafted SBA-15 catalysts for chemo-selective reductions Y Z Zhu and S Jaenicke (Poster at the Singapore International Chemical Conference-2 (SICC-2), P65, Dec., 2001, Singapore) ... zirconia as a selective catalyst for the Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction S H Liu, Y Z Zhu, and G K Chuah (Scientific Collaborations in Catalysis Research Dec 2002, Netherlands) Catalytic Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley...
... width will produce a nearest neighbor chain Definition K-nearest-neighbor chain (K-NNC) is defined as a string containing K U U connected components [C1 , C , L, C K ] , in which C i +1 is the ... relative abundance and importance of italic, bold and all-capital words in 6,000 document pages ranging from technical journals, proceedings of technical conferences to technical books, etc [CG98] The ... locations of these connected components To find the boundaries of each word object, the same idea can be applied as in finding the connected components in the section 2.1 For each connected component,...
... medical research, we have selected a subset of important imaging modalities with speci capplications that are significant inmedical sciences and clinical practice The topics covered in the chapters ... 2–10); Recent Advances inMedicalImagingand Image Analysis (Chapters 11–23); andMedicalImaging Applications, Case Studies and Future Trends (Chapters 24–32) Chapter describes some basic principles ... line joining the two detectors involved in coincidence detection Thus, by detecting a large number of coincidences, the source location and distribution can be reconstructed through image reconstruction...
... processing; medicalimaging 1 Introduction In the field of computer aided detection and diagnostics (CAD), recent advances in image processing techniques have brought a wide array of applications ... Once the order of the morphological filter is calculated, the segmented image is denoised using (13) Applicationsinmedicalimaging We provide a selected list of AM-FM biomedical imagingapplications ... classification of surface electromyographic signals in [80], and the analysis of brain rhythms in electroencephalograms [91] More general (non -medical) AM-FM applicationsin tracking include the...
... applying the same feed rate an uncoked cracker can process Cracker overload results both in expedited coking andin a dispersion of the cracking process For these reasons, Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation ... of fuzzy logic systems based on training data In this section we show the complete development cycle for a classification system for recycling glass using NeuroFuzzy technologies NeuroFuzzy Technology ... controller for the container crane The fuzzy logic system consists of three steps: fuzzification, fuzzy inference, and defuzzification Fuzzification using Linguistic Variables Linguistic variables have...
... applying the same feed rate an uncoked cracker can process Cracker overload results both in expedited coking andin a dispersion of the cracking process For these reasons, Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation ... of fuzzy logic systems based on training data In this section we show the complete development cycle for a classification system for recycling glass using NeuroFuzzy technologies NeuroFuzzy Technology ... controller for the container crane The fuzzy logic system consists of three steps: fuzzification, fuzzy inference, and defuzzification Fuzzification using Linguistic Variables Linguistic variables have...
... FERM and PDZ-domain-containing (FRMPD2) [8] and Ras guanine exchange factor (RasGEF) veryKIND (v-KIND, or kinase noncatalytic C- lobe domain containing 1) [9] The KIND domain in these proteins ... KIND2-containing constructs (v-KIND, DKIND1, DRasN and DRasGEF) interacted with GST-CD2, whereas two constructs lacking KIND2 (DKIND2 and DKIND1 + 2) failed to bind to GST-CD2 (Fig S2A) This indicates ... Fig Domain structure of the MAP2-associated RasGEF v-KIND andits dendritic targeting via KIND2 domain (A) Structures of the v-KIND KIND1, KIND2, coiled-coil (CC), RasN and RasGEF domains Flag-tagged...
... Magnetic Material Engineering Chapter 6: ApplicationsinMedicaland Biology Magnetic Material Engineering Chapter 6: ApplicationsinMedicaland Biology Magnetic Material Engineering Magnetic Cell ... ApplicationsinMedicaland Biology Magnetic Material Engineering Capture of bacteria by using Vancomycin-conjugated magnetic nanoparticle Control experiment Chapter 6: ApplicationsinMedicaland ... Engineering Magnetic nanoparticles Chapter 6: ApplicationsinMedicaland Biology Magnetic Material Engineering Magnetic nanoparticles Chapter 6: ApplicationsinMedicaland Biology Magnetic Material...
... Ioannis K Vlachos and George D Sergiadis 167 Fuzzy C- MeansandItsApplicationsinMedicalImaging Huiyu Zhou 213 v vi Contents Image Informatics for Clinical and Preclinical Biomedical Analysis ... Computational Intelligence inMedicalImaging Techniques andApplications Computational Intelligence inMedicalImaging Techniques andApplications Edited by Gerald Schaefer Aboul ... United Kingdom in 1994 His research interests include image/video processing in compressed domains, medical imaging, machine learning and AI applicationsin digital media processing, retrieval, and...
... C ≤ C ,s The case C = C ,s corresponds to the local equilibrium case In the absence of a physically-based estimate of interfacial area in classical kinetic models, the mass transfer coefficient ... fluid continuum contained within a certain volume (called representative elementary volume, REV) and are assigned to a single point in the fictitious domain In order to succeed in establishing correctly ... This is called enhanced oil recovery The advantage of injecting carbon dioxide lies in the fact that it dissolves in the oil which in turn reduces the oil viscosity, and thus, increases its mobility...