Numerical studies of amorphous silicon show that the lowest 4% of vibrational modes are plane-wave like (“propagons”) and the highest 3% of modes are localized (“locons”). The rest are neither plane-wave like nor localized. We call them “diffusons.” Since diffusons are by far the most numerous, we try to characterize them by calculating such properties as wavevector and polarization (which seem...

This thesis studies Faster R-CNN, the state-of-art method for object detection in RGB images, and proposes its extension to RGB-D images. Solutions to the following problems are proposed and evaluated: filling missing values in depth images, depth encoding (raw depth vs. surface normals), extension of the CNN architecture to accept the extra depth information, and initialization of weights in t...

in this paper, using annular resonator we have designed an adding and dropping filter light based ontwo-dimensional photonic crystals. the shape of ring resonator filter adding and dropping that wehave proposed is race track. this filter has a hexagonal lattice structure of silicon bars withrefractive index 3/46 that is located in the context of air with refractive index 1. transmissionefficien...

in this paper, a novel matched filter based on a new kernel function with cauchy distribution is introduced to improve the accuracy ofthe automatic retinal vessel detection compared with other available matched filter‑based methods, most notably, the methods builton gaussian distribution function. several experiments are conducted to pick the best values of the parameters for the new designedfi...

Disorder of size (polydispersity) and mass of discrete elements or particles in randomly structured media (e.g., granular matter such as soil) has numerous effects on the materials’ sound propagation characteristics. The influence of disorder on energy and momentum transport, the sound wave speed and its low-pass frequency-filtering characteristics is the subject of this study. The goal is unde...

In this paper, rational orthogonal basis functions are introduced to realize cascaded-parallel structure of adaptive notch filters (ANF) in the case of identifying and separating multiple sinusoids from wideband signals. The structural orthogonality provides good tradeoff between convergence speed and computational complexity. A simplified mean square output error (MSOE) updating algorithm is d...

The theory of helicon waves is extended to include finite electron mass. This introduces an additional branch to the dispersion relation that is essentially an electron cyclotron or Trivelpiece– Gould ~TG! wave with a short radial wavelength. The effect of the TG wave is expected to be important only for low dc magnetic fields and long parallel wavelengths. The normal modes at low fields are mi...

BACKGROUND Combining multiple databases with disjunctive or additional information on the same person is occurring increasingly throughout research. If unique identification numbers for these individuals are not available, probabilistic record linkage is used for the identification of matching record pairs. In many applications, identifiers have to be encrypted due to privacy concerns. METHOD...

background: in myocardial perfusion spect imaging, images are degraded by photon attenuation, the distance-dependent collimator, detector response and photons scatter. filters greatly affect quality of nuclear medicine images materials and methods: a phantom simulating heart left ventricle was built. about 1mci of 99mtc was injected into the phantom. images were taken from this phantom. some fi...

A Boolean formula in conjunctive normal form (CNF) is called matched if the system of sets of variables which appear in individual clauses has a system of distinct representatives. Each matched CNF is trivially satisfiable (each clause can be satisfied by its representative variable). Another property which is easy to see, is that the class of matched CNFs is not closed under partial assignment...