... image and video applicationsand new technologies in different fields, such as biology, medicine, engineering, and entertainment The images and videos are compressed, transmitted, captured, and ... digital forms, with different types and amounts of impaired artifacts While in bio-medical applications, speckle noise and coding artifacts are most common, in the entertainment and engineering applications, ... novel image and video quality assessment and improvement techniques and systems which are aimed for currently challenging applications in which the visual quality is critical Thirteen outstanding...
... image and video applicationsand new technologies in different fields, such as biology, medicine, engineering, and entertainment The images and videos are compressed, transmitted, captured, and ... digital forms, with different types and amounts of impaired artifacts While in bio-medical applications, speckle noise and coding artifacts are most common, in the entertainment and engineering applications, ... novel image and video quality assessment and improvement techniques and systems which are aimed for currently challenging applications in which the visual quality is critical Thirteen outstanding...
... corresponding cycle lengths are sufficient even for very demanding applications (like huge simulations used for weather forecast or random search for cryptographic keys) If the counter is not started ... Cryptographic applications are treated separately in Sections and The algorithms and their calling loops were coded in C, compiled and run In each run, 10 MB of output were written to a binary file, and ... pseudorandom words are generated at a time Different parameter sets lead to different pseudorandom sequences, similar in randomness and in speed (11 iterations): x = k++; y = 0; z = 0; w = 0; for...
... Collaboration forum and co-ordination • Technical support and appropriate technology • Best practice guidelines • Improved stakeholder participation in decision-making Best Practice Guidelines for water ... stated above • Will be used by DWAF as a basis for evaluating licence applicationsandfor drafting licence conditions • Will serve as a uniform basis for negotiations through the licensing process ... general do’s and don’ts for small-scale miners (Pulles 2002b) As a Small-Scale Miner DO √ Apply for the necessary permits and authorizations √ √ Plan your mining operations and camp site before you...
... creating absurd designs more for fantasy than reality During this time Randall never wavered Year after year the company filled orders for those who treasured a Randall knife for what it really ... of operational excellence The design of this mail delivery system was based on maximum efficiency for people and equipment for its day The images of riders staying in the saddle for hours with ... the United States, and Randall was considered the dean That was because of quality and style When The Six Driving Forces That Affect Your Business Plan 163 the Vietnam War and movies made big,...
... Brown, and Canny presented a qualitative examination of micro-actuated motion arrays based on dynamic simulation and physical results [16] In this paper, we compare simulated and real designsfor ... 2.5 and 3.7 cm, and masses of and 12.5 grams, respectively (see Figure 2) We measured the dimensions and masses of the parts manually using rulers and mass balances We decomposed the state space ... Industrial parts for vibratory feeding and orienting Medium-sized parts are shown in the foreground and tall-sized parts are shown in the background industrial vibratory bowl and the parts it...
... target formation depth, formation porosity, permeability, temperature, pressure, and seal formation The MVA packages for these case studies were selected to maximize understanding of CO2 behavior and ... Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14064 and 14065 by over 45 countries and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI, 2007) provides the foundation for developing protocols to validate and ... The best geologic carbon sink formations capable of storing CO2 include oil and gas bearing formations, saline formations, basalt, deep coal seams, and oil- or gas-rich shales Not all geologic formations...
... unsafe for adults and had not raised warning signs for use by older children The 1970s saw growing recognition of the need for pediatric drug studies as well for formal protections for both child and ... the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children and the Pediatric Research Equity Acts 1-12 SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MEDINES FOR CHILDREN Incentives for Pediatric Studies and Pediatric Exclusivity: FDAMA and ... Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Biologics License Application Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act Center for Biologics Evaluation and...
... display, perform, and reproduce copyrighted works They routinely utilize still images, film and video clips, video games, audio segments, and other media for the purposes of analyzing and illustrating ... and include them in compilations or presentations for illustrative purposes The ability to copy, excerpt and edit, capture stills, and manipulate images and sounds in this way enhances film and ... on most commercial DVDs and iTunes music and videos This prohibition presented a problem for film and media educators because digital copies have become the standard for classroom use, but making...
... cells and arrays bestsuitedforspaceapplications Critical design configurations and performance requirements for the solar cells and modules capable of powering the space- based surveillance and ... Performance and Procurement Specifications forSolar Cells and Panels for Residential and Commercial Applications 268 8.11.7.1 Performance and Procurement Specifications forSolar Cells and Panels ... Silicon Solar Cells 181 6.3.5 Critical Performance Requirements forSolar Arrays forSpaceApplications 181 6.4 Impact of Space Radiation on SolarCell Performance 184 6.4.1 Performance...
... Retirees and spouses and children of active duty, retired, and deceased members of the armed forces can be covered by an insurance program called the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed ... activities and it and you will be exercising But having said that, follow these guidelines for a better and safer exercise program: • If you have not exercised for quite some time and you decide ... but equally effective brand name drug If so, ask for that substitute What if there are no generics and no other brand is as effective, and you have to buy that particular brand? You still have the...
... action and effects of both Andro and LA for treatment of diabetes, we conducted experiments to evaluate the efficacy and possible mechanism(s) of action of a conjugate of Andro and LA, i.e., andrographolide-lipoic ... Structures of Andro, LA and AL-1 Structures of Andro, LA and AL-1 dong Province, China (SPF grade) Mice were housed in an animal room with 12 h light and 12 h dark, and were maintained on standard pelleted ... Biotechnology Co Ltd.), and were detected using ECL Plus (PIERCE, Rockford, IL, USA) Cell culture RIN-m cell is an insulinoma cell line derived from a rat islet cell tumor [18] Cells were purchased...
... plasma treated and grafted in BFD and (2) treated and grafted with BFD and then with Au nanoparticles are shown The band at 790 cm-1 corresponds to absorption of the S-C group and the band at 761 ... Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), electrokinetic analysis were used for the characterization of surface chemistry of the modified polymer and atomic force microscopy (AFM) for the study ... http://www.nanoscalereslett.com/content/6/1/607 programme Before the measurement, the samples were stored weeks under standard laboratory conditions Surface morphology and roughness of pristine and modified PET were examined...
... physiological and molecular changes [20,21] Therefore, such robust micro test tubes and microbeakers formed on Si substrates with SPION attachment promises to have immense applications in biomedicine and ... the purpose of this work is to synthesize array of micro test tubes and microbeakers of Si for biological applications, and not on investigating the pore formation mechanism in p-Si, we refrain ... array of microbeakers with depth approximately 8.5 μm and cross-sectional diameter approximately 1.5 μm formed on a 100 Ω-cm wafer, with J = mA/cm2, t = 90 and HF/DMF ratio = 1:9 and (b) an array...
... carbide film formation for a solarcell passivation layer The film was deposited on p-type silicon (100) and glass substrates by an RF magnetron co-sputtering system using a Si target and a C target ... efficient and cost-effective solar cells [4, 5] Amorphous silicon-based thin film layers (SiO2, SiN, a-SiC:H, and so on) for antireflection coatings, diffusion barriers, passivation layers, and silicon ... Conclusions We demonstrate a formation method of an a-Si1-xCx passivation layer for Si solar cells The method was performed by RF magnetron co-sputtering with a Si target and a C target The a-Si1-xCx...
... Perez-Wurfl I, Conibeer G, Green MA: “Formation and photoluminescence of Si quantum dots in SiO2/Si3N4 hybrid matrix for all Si tandem solar cells” Sol Energy Mater Sol Cells 2010, 94:2238 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-6-156 ... understand the effect of the annealing process on the achieved optical properties This set of above-mentioned results paves the way for the fabrication of novel structures forsolarcell device applications ... shifts in the visible region and this is one of the advantageous aspects for the solarcell application It is very interesting to note that the SRSO/SiN x annealed for a very short time of at...
... The Rs for the solar cells with and without SiNPs arrays is 2.87 and 2.25 X, respectively, which is still slightly higher than that of standard singlecrystal Si wafer–based solarcelland also ... in solarcell Figure 4a demonstrates the optical image of the fabricated solarcell recorded by a digital camera The black area indicates the PASiNP arrays, and the white block lines stand for ... electrodes and SiNPs is still needed and that the improvement of the PCE could be achieved The Rsh is calculated to be *1,051 and *2,878 X for the solar cells with and without SiNP arrays, respectively...
... electrode for CdS/CdSe-sensitized solarcell With the cell parameters of Jsc = 10.68 mA cm-2, Voc = 497 mV, FF = 0.581 and g = 3.08%, QDSC with nano-Cu2S/C composite CE exhibits superior performance ... surface morphologies of graphite paper before and after h Cu2S deposition Before the deposition of Cu2S, graphite surface was clean and smooth in microscale and the layered structure was clearly ... the Pt, Au and carbon CEs Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurement indicates that the Rct at CE/electrolyte was very low and made the composite CE an excellent candidate for high-efficiency...
... structure and believed to increase the solarcell performance as compared to solarcell w/SLAR structure To investigate the performance of silicon nitride SWS before fabricating on a real silicon solar ... (VOC) and efficiency (g) for a solarcell structure based on the standard PC1D template for a low cost silicon solarcell The silicon material was set to p-type with resistivity of 1.008 X cm and ... 0.8% can be seen for silicon solarcell with silicon nitride SWS over a cell with single layer silicon nitride ARCs and only 0.3% less in efficiency than the DLAR coated solar cell, which is believed...
... Polypeptides and proteins are presented as critical elements forcell metabolism (Chaps and 5), cell communication (Chaps and 6), andfor regulation of cell division (Chaps and 8) andcell development ... facilitate information flow in space or in time The overarching theme of biology is the theme of information transfer In Chaps and on genetics andcell cycle and division, the concept of information ... maintenance and turnover 8.3.2 Tissue stem cells (traditional view) 8.3.3 Regenerative medicine with stem cells 8.3.4 Sources of stem cells 8.3.5 Current and potential stem cell uses and points...