Image fusion has emerged as a promising area of research and a bivariate empirical mode decomposition based fusion scheme has recently been proposed in the literature. In this paper, a hybrid fusion scheme combining self-fractional Fourier function (SFFF) decomposition and multivariate empirical mode decomposition is proposed. In the proposed image fusion technique, images to be fused are decom...

Since the current global financial crisis started in 2008, the international Monetary Fund (IMF) has been gaining power again. Before this crisis, the IMF appeared to be sliding towards terminal irrelevance. For several years, emerging economies had been making fewer and fewer demands on its rescue services. The economic emergency room with nearly no patients a year ago is now back in place. Bu...

Recently, there has been great progress toward observationally determining the mean star formation history of the universe. When accurately known, the cosmic star formation rate could provide much information about Galactic evolution, if the Milky Way’s star formation rate is representative of the average cosmic star formation history. A simple hypothesis is that our local star formation rate i...

Using self-consistent chemodynamical simulations including star formation, supernova feedback, and chemical enrichment, I show the dependence of cosmic star formation and chemical enrichment histories on the initial mass function (IMF). The effects of Pop-III IMF can be only seen in the elemental abundance ratios at z > ∼ 4 or [Fe/H] < ∼ −2. The preferable IMF has a flatter slope in the case of...

We show that the same initial mass function (IMF) can result from very different modes of star formation from very similar underlying core and/or system mass functions. In particular, we show that the canonical IMF can be recovered from very similar system mass functions, but with very different mass ratio distributions within those systems. This is a consequence of the basically log-normal sha...

background. one of the treatment methods for facial fractures is close reduction technique, but treatment with intermaxillary fixation (imf) interferes with normal nutrition, and malnutrition can affect patient’s recovery. anthropometric measurements such as skinfold thickness and body mass index (bmi) are universal indexes for diagnosing malnutrition. so in this study we pointed out how treatm...

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) is expressed by $\phi(m) \propto m^{-\alpha}$ with the slope $\alpha$, and known as poorly-constrained but very important in studies of star galaxy formation. There are no sensible observational constraints on IMF slopes beyond Milky Way nearby galaxies. Here we combine two sets results, 1) cosmic densities core-collapse supernova explosion (CCSNe) rates ...

Abstract Without the intrinsic magnetic field, solar wind interaction with Mars can be significantly different from Earth and other magnetized planets. In this paper, we investigate how a global configuration of structures, consisting bow shock, induced magnetosphere, magnetotail, is modulated by interplanetary field (IMF) orientation. A 3D multispecies numerical model established to simulate u...