Fattening

Fattening free correlation algorithms

Block matching along epipolar lines is the core of most stereovision algorithms in geographic information systems. The usual distances between blocks are the sum of squared distances in the block (SSD) or the correlation. These distances suffer the adhesion (or fattening) effect, a defect by which the center of the block inherits the disparity of the more contrasted pixels in the block. This re...

Economic optimization of bull fattening

A low efficiency of bull fattening resulted in a decrease of beef production in Poland. One of the possibilities of the improvement of fattening efficiency is a proper choice of decisions concerning the course of a fattening process. Making the optimal decisions can be supported by means of dynamic programming (DP) models, using the hierarchic Markov process (HMP) technique. The models develope...

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Variants of fattening and flavor symmetry restoration

The MILC Collaboration We study the effects of different " fat link " actions for Kogut-Susskind quarks on flavor symmetry breaking. Our method is mostly empirical-we compute the pion spectrum with different valence quark actions on common sets of sample lattices. Different actions are compared, as best we can, at equivalent physical points. We find significant reductions in flavor symmetry bre...

Stressing the Brain, Fattening the Body

Obesity is characterized by chronic activation of inflammatory pathways in peripheral tissues. In this issue, Zhang et al. (2008) demonstrate that inflammation also occurs in the central nervous system where it disrupts activity of the hypothalamus leading to resistance to leptin that is mediated by activation of IKK and the endoplasmic reticulum stress response.