we have developed a three level implicit method for solution of the helmholtz equation. using the cubic spline in space and nite dierence in time directions. the approach has been modied to drive numerov type nite dierence method. the method yield the tri- diagonal linear system of algebraic equations which can be solved by using a tri-diagonal solver. stability and error estimation of the...

In watermarking schemes, the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is broadly used because its frequency component separation is very useful. Moreover, LU decomposition has little influence on the visual quality of the watermark. Hence, in this paper, a novel blind watermark algorithm is presented based on LU transform and DWT for the copyright protection of digital images. In this algorithm, the co...

This paper proposes a method to estimate the wavelet coefficient threshold value at wavelet details subbands to archive high quality image compression. It uses the features of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) where the images are decomposed into one approximate subband and three detail subbands. The detail subbands consists of Diagonal, Vertical and Horizontal subband. By using the standard dev...

Original scientific paper Reinforced-concrete (R/C) frames infilled with masonry wall, especially with the presence of an opening, are insufficiently explored structural elements. We have experimentally investigated influence of the opening’s type and position to the lateral response of reinforced-concrete frames with masonry infill. Correction factors, that take into account influence of the o...

To protect passengers, large aircraft are equipped with multiple mechanisms to absorb impact energy during a crash. However, light aircraft rely only on the cabin structure to withstand the compression and energy generated during a crash. This study performed a topology optimization analysis on the model structure by using Abaqus/optimization and used strain energy as the objective function and...

It is well established that perceptual direction discrimination shows an oblique effect; thresholds are higher for motion along diagonal directions than for motion along cardinal directions. Here, we compare simultaneous direction judgments and pursuit responses for the same motion stimuli and find that both pursuit and perceptual thresholds show similar anisotropies. The pursuit oblique effect...

Memory bandwidth is a major limiting factor in the scalability of parallel algorithms. In this paper, we introduce hierarchical diagonal blocking, a sparse matrix representation which we believe captures most of optimization techniques in a common representation. It can take advantage of symmetry while still being easy to parallelize. It takes advantage of, or actually requires, reordering. It ...

A 59-year-old woman was transferred to our institution with a diagnosis of acute type A aortic dissection. During aortic replacement surgery, the dissection had not extended to the orifice of the left coronary artery. However, ST segment elevation was observed on an electrocardiogram monitor immediately postoperatively. An emergent coronary angiogram showed almost complete collapse of the lumen...

Calcific pericarditis (CP) is a rare disease which results from long-standing pericardial inflammation. Pericardial calcification may completely or partially encase the ventricles, resulting in impaired diastolic filling. We present a case of a 53-year-old male who was incidentally found to have annular CP resulting in external compression of a large territory diagonal branch (D1) reaching the ...