This paper presents a new data structure, Slice-based Binary Shell (SBS), for efficient manipulation and rendering of binary volume data. Since SBS stores only surface voxels with selected attributes of the voxels in a slice-based data structure that allows direct access to the voxels, it shows high storage and computational efficiency. This efficiency becomes more prominent when representing m...

For an ionic melt consisting of two components and of three ion constituents, we derive the interrelation between the Soret coefficient and the initial and final values of the thermoelectric power of a thermocell containing the melt considered. We only use the general formulas of Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes and there is no restriction with respect to the valency types of the electr...

in this study, the removal of cadmium and lead ions from aqueous solution by nanocrystalline magnetite was investigated. the nanocrystalline magnetite was synthesized by mechanochemical activation of hematite in a high energy planetary mill in argon atmosphere for 45 hours. the ability of the synthesized nanocrystalline magnetite for removal of cd(ii) and pb(ii) from aqueous solutions was studi...

Solid surfaces suspended in critical aqueous binary mixtures containing hydrophilic salt have recently been found to exhibit anomalous interactions, and a possible mechanism is provided by the asymmetric solvation preferences of weakly and strongly hydrophilic cations and anions, respectively. Here we address this mechanism by studying interfacial ion distributions in a critical binary mixture ...

The influence of ions on the bulk phase behavior of binary liquid mixtures acting as their solvents and on the corresponding interfacial structures close to a planar wall is investigated by means of density functional theory based on local descriptions of the effective interactions between ions and their solvents. The bilinear coupling approximation (BCA), which has been used in numerous previo...

nucleate pool boiling heat transfer coefficient have been experimentally measured on a horizontal rod heater for various liquid binary mixtures. measurements are based on more than three hundred data points on a wide range of concentrations and heat fluxes. in this investigation, it has been confirmed that the heat transfer coefficient in boiling solutions are regularly less than those in pure ...

Chromium/phosphorus binary cluster ions, [Cr(n)P(m)](+/-), produced by laser (532nm) ablation on a tablet of well-mixed chromium and red phosphorus powder, were studied with a home-built tandem time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer. The clusters thus formed are mostly rich in phosphorus. There is an odd-even oscillation in the intensity of the [CrP(m)](+) series, i.e. the mass peaks of even m ...

By means of a binary visibility graph, we present a novel method to study random binary sequences. The behavior of the some topological properties of the binary visibility graph, such as the degree distribution, the clustering coefficient, and the mean path length have been investigated. Several examples are then provided to show that the numerical simulations confirm the accuracy of the theore...