The 1D discrete fractional Laplacian operator on a cyclically closed (periodic) linear chain with finite number N of identical particles is introduced. We suggest a ”fractional elastic harmonic potential”, and obtain the N -periodic fractional Laplacian operator in the form of a power law matrix function for the finite chain (N arbitrary not necessarily large) in explicit form. In the limiting ...

OBJECTIVE This experiment investigated the effect of dietary net energy (NE) concentrations on growth performance and NE intake of growing gilts. METHODS Five diets were formulated to contain 9.6, 10.1, 10.6, 11.1, and 11.6 MJ NE/kg, respectively. A metabolism trial with 10 growing pigs (average body weight [BW] = 15.9±0.24 kg) was conducted to determine NE concentrations of 5 diets based on ...

The purpose of multi-focus image fusion is gathering the essential information and the focused parts from the input multi-focus images into a single image. These multifocused images are captured with different depths of focus of cameras. Multi-focus image fusion is very time-saving and appropriate in discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain, especially when JPEG images are used in visual sensor n...

Different methods of urban sewage sludge energy recovery such as burning, gasification, pyrolysis and digestion based on the net energy production efficiency, advantages and disadvantages and complexity of these processes have been investigated in this article. The best method for energy production from sludge was selected among different methods according to energy and the amount of the greenh...