BACKGROUND The treatment of idiopathic full-thickness macular holes involves surgery to close the hole. Some surgeons advise patients to adopt a face-down position to increase the likelihood of successful macular hole closure. However, patients often find the face-down positioning arduous. There is a lack of conclusive evidence that face-down positioning improves the outcome. The 'Positioning I...

Depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) oriented view synthesis has been widely employed in the current depth-based 3D video systems by synthesizing a virtual view from an arbitrary viewpoint. However, holes may appear in the synthesized view due to disocclusion, thus significantly degrading the quality. Consequently, efforts have been made on developing effective and efficient hole filling algorith...

Head gaze, or the orientation of the head, is a very important attentional cue in face to face conversation. Some subtleties of the gaze can be lost in common teleconferencing systems, because a single perspective warps spatial characteristics. A recent random hole display is a potentially interesting display for group conversation, as it allows multiple stereo viewers in arbitrary locations, w...

Wireless sensor network is the area where many researchers are focusing. The emerging technology of WSN is expected to provide a broad range of applications, such as battlefield surveillance, environmental monitoring and smart space and so on. Coverage is the important quality of service which is provided by the wireless sensor network. The coverage hole problem is a fundamental issue in WSN. T...

This investigation proposes a grey-based Taguchi method to solve the multi-response problems. The grey-based Taguchi method is based on the Taguchi’s design of experimental method, and adopts grey relational analysis (GRA) to transfer multiresponse problems into single-response problems. In this investigation, an attempt has been made to optimize the drilling process parameters considering weig...

In California, the commercial fishery for Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) has exported over one million pounds annually in recent years, primarily to South Korea where they are considered a delicacy. Comparatively little research exists to support management decisions for this species. In an effort to support ongoing conservation efforts, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW...

This study used particle swarm optimization (PSO) to determine the optimal values of effective design variables acting on the stress distribution around a quasi-triangular hole in an infinite orthotropic plate. These parameters were load angle, hole orientation, bluntness, fiber angle, and material properties, which were ascertained on the basis of an analytical method used by Lekhnitskii [3]. ...

Stress concentration factors have been examined in a functionally graded material (FGM) plate with central holes in different shapes in this essay. The material properties change along the thickness of plate. ABAQUS software has been utilized for modeling of problem in which subroutine of ABAQUS sub-program was used for modeling of the targeted material. The considering shapes for hole in plate...

In this paper, the effect of interference fit on fatigue life of holed plate of mechanical joints was investigated experimentally. Fatigue tests were carried out on the holed specimens of Al-alloy 7075-T6 alloy. The interference fit process consists of force fitting a fastener into the hole with a negative clearance (diameter of the fastener is larger than of the hole) that produces beneficial ...

The main purpose of this research is portfolio optimization in Tehran securities exchange using the black hole algorithm and the Gravitational Research algorithm. We also propose an algorithm named Hybrid Algorithm which combines the two algorithms above to cover the weaknesses of these two algorithms. Finally we compare the results with the Markowitz model and choose the optimal algorithm.<br ...