In present day world when identity circumferences many social, personal, professional outlooks, the identification of identity is highly critical. In pursuit of the same if we consider biological identity of person as a resource to identify his identity, we are approaching towards a new arena of a metric system call biometric system which enables us for automatic identification of an individual...

Nanotechnology involves the ability to see and control individual atoms and molecules which are about 100 nanometer or smaller. One of the major tools used in this field is atomic force microscopy which uses a wealth of techniques to measure the topography and investigates the surface forces in nanoscale. Friction force is the representation of the surface interaction between two surfaces an...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to extract suitable spatiotemporal and kinematic parameters to determine how Total Knee Replacement (TKR) alters patients’ knee kinematics during gait, using a rapid and simplified quantitative two-dimensional gait analysis procedure. Methods: Two-dimensional kinematic gait pattern of 10 participants were collected before and after the TKR surgery,...

Pierce (1982) found a paradoxical phenomenon. Let θ = (β, γ) be parameters which we would like to estimate. In many cases, we are only interested in some parameters and the rest is nuisance parameters. Let β be parameters we were interested in and γ be nuisance parameters. Usually, an estimator of β has smaller variance when the nuisance parameter γ is known. Pierce (1982) found that under some...

A method for measurement and visualization of the complex transmission coefficient of 2-D microobjects is proposed. The method is based on calculation of the transmission coefficient from the diffraction pattern and the illumination aperture function for monochromatic light. A phase-stepping method was used for diffracted light phase determination.

Visualization techniques and tools allow a user to make sense of enormous amount of data. Querying capabilities and direct manipulation techniques enable a user to filter out irrelevant data and focus only on information that could yield to a conclusion. Effective visualization techniques should enable a user or an analyst to get to the conclusion in a short time and with minimal training. We i...

We construct new non-extremal rotating black hole solutions in SO(6) gauged fivedimensional supergravity. Our solutions are the first such examples in which the two rotation parameters are independently specifiable, rather than being set equal. The black holes carry charges for all three of the gauge fields in the U(1) subgroup of SO(6), albeit with only one independent charge parameter. We dis...

Previously, an unbiased estimator of the generalization error called the subspace information criterion (SIC) was proposed for a finite dimensional reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). In this paper, we extend SIC so that it can be applied to any RKHSs including infinite dimensional ones. Computer simulations show that the extended SIC works well in ridge parameter selection.

The problem of unpredictable shrinkage of cotton knitted fabrics and garments faced by the industry has been investigated by knitting single jersey cotton fabrics using the similar yarn and knitting parameters as used in the industry and finishing them. Through linear regression analysis, the variable factors, which affect the shrinkage and should be included in the domain of the quality contro...

Commuting pairs of ordinary differential operators are classified by a set of algebro-geometric data called “algebraic spectral data”. These data consist of an algebraic curve (“spectral curve”) Γ with a marked point γ∞, a holomorphic vector bundle E on Γ and some additional data related to the local structure of Γ and E in a neighborhood of γ∞. If the rank r of E is greater than 1, one can use...