The cortical surface of the human brain is composed of folds that are juxtaposed alongside one another. Several methods have been proposed to study the shape of these folds, e.g., by first segmenting them on the cortical surface or by analysis via a continuous deformation of a common template. A major disadvantage of these methods is that, while they can localize shape differences, they cannot ...

Mechanical metamaterials exhibit unusual properties through the shape and movement of their engineered subunits. This work presents a new investigation of the Poisson's ratios of a family of cellular metamaterials based on Kirigami design principles. Kirigami is the art of cutting and folding paper to obtain 3D shapes. This technique allows us to create cellular structures with engineered cuts ...

Particles adsorbed at a fluid-fluid interface induce capillary deformations that determine their orientations and generate mutual capillary interactions which drive them to assemble into 2D ordered structures. We numerically calculate, by energy minimization, the capillary deformations induced by adsorbed cubes for various Young's contact angles. First, we show that capillarity is crucial not o...

In this paper, we propose a set of free-form shape deformation techniques. The basic approach can be described as follows. Given a surface represented by a mesh and a control point, for every mesh vertex let us consider the difference between the control point and the vertex. The vertex is shifted by a displacement equal to the difference times a scale factor where the scale factor is given by ...

This paper presents a new approach to inverse consistent image registration. A uni-directional algorithm is developed using symmetric cost functionals and regularizers. Instead of enforcing inverse consistency using an additional penalty that penalizes inconsistency error, the new algorithm directly models the backward mapping by inverting the forward mapping. The resulting minimization problem...

This paper investigate the impact of packet size on the performance of 802.15.4 for Wireless Sensor Network based on various packet size scenario like packet size 300, 600 and 900.The comparative results have been reported for the performance metrics like Battery energy consumed, Traffic sink end to end delay and Traffic received. Packet size optimization is an important issue in energy constra...

Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ, USA {hwang,[email protected]} Abstract. We study the privacy threat by publishing data that contains full functional dependencies (FFDs). We show that the cross-attribute correlations by FFDs can bring potential vulnerability to privacy. Unfortunately, none of the existing anonymization principles can effectively prevent against the FFD-based priv...

exp(2 i( p 1 i ) are the eigenvalues of the Milnor monodromy and their integral part is determined by the Hodge ltration of the mixed Hodge structure. This notion was rst introduced by Steenbrink [11]. By [14] the exponents are constant under -constant deformation of f . In particular, they depend only on f 1 (0). They express the vanishing order (up to the shift by one) of the period integrals...

BACKGROUND Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) using dedicated high-resolution ultrasound is a relatively new technique that is useful in assessing myocardial deformation in 3 myocardial layers in small animals. However, comparative studies of STE parameters acquired from murine are limited. METHODS A high-resolution rodent ultrasound machine (VSI Vevo 2100) and a clinically validated ult...