in this study, an intelligent system for sorting closed shell and open shell pistachio nuts, was designed and developed based on combined acoustic and artificial neural network (ann) techniques. the system included a microphone, pc, material handling equipment and an air reject pneumatic mechanism. the microphone, placed under the steel plate, received sound signals generated by the pistachio n...

We investigate the role of high momentum components optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus scattering and its incidence on their nonlocal structure in coordinate space. The study covers closed-shell nuclei with mass number range $$4 \le A 208$$ , nucleon energies from tens MeV up to 1 GeV. To this purpose microscopic were calculated using density-dependent off-shell g matrices Brueckner-H...

We wish to recover an image corrupted by blur and Gaussian or impulse noise, in a variational framework. We use two data-fidelity terms depending on the noise, and several local and nonlocal regularizers. Inspired by Buades-Coll-Morel, Gilboa-Osher, and other nonlocal models, we propose nonlocal versions of the Ambrosio-Tortorelli and Shah approximations to Mumford-Shah-like regularizing functi...

Nonlocal coordinate space optical potentials for the scattering of 65 MeV protons from nuclei ranging in mass from 6 Li to 238 U have been defined by folding a complex, medium dependent effective interaction with the density matrix elements of each target. The effective interaction is based upon solutions of the Lippmann–Schwinger and Brueckner–Bethe–Goldstone equations having the Paris potenti...

Bell's theorem guarantees that no model based on local variables can reproduce quantum correlations. Also, some models based on nonlocal variables, if subject to apparently "reasonable" constraints, may fail to reproduce quantum physics. In this Letter, we introduce a family of inequalities, which use a finite number of measurement settings, and which therefore allow testing Leggett's nonlocal ...

A polyadic dynamic logic is introduced in which a model-theoretic version of nonlocal multicomponent tree-adjoining grammar can be formulated. It is shown to have a low polynomial time model checking procedure. This means that treebanks for nonlocal MCTAG, incl. all weaker extensions of TAG, can be efficiently corrected and queried. Our result is extended to HPSG treebanks (with some qualificat...

The classical phase-field model represents a coupling of an Allen-Cahn type nonlinear equation with a standard diffusion equation and has been proposed to describe uniform phase separation in a pure substance. This research considers an extension of that model which incorporates a more accurate approximation to the diffuse interface between states of matter through the use of a nonlocal operato...

Biological aggregations such as insect swarms and bird flocks may arise from a combination of social interactions and environmental cues. We focus on nonlocal continuum equations, which are often used to model aggregations, and yet which pose significant analytical and computational challenges. Beginning with a particular nonlocal aggregation model [Topaz et al., Bull. Math. Bio., 2006], we der...