Several researches in leaf identification did not include color information as features. The main reason is caused by a fact that they used green colored leaves as samples. However, for foliage plants—plants with colorful leaves, fancy patterns in their leaves, and interesting plants with unique shape—color and also texture could not be neglected. For example, Epipremnum pinnatum ‘Aureum’ and E...

Image retrieval is an important research field, which has received great attention in the last decades. The main purpose of research in this field is to improve the process of finding the desired image in the large and variable database. In this paper, we present an approach for the image retrieval based on the combination of text-based and content-based features. For text-based features, keywo...

National experience shows that 50 percent of physicians change positions within the first 2 years of practice. Because of market pressures, medicine in general and plastic surgery in particular are shifting away from solo practice. The authors examine the primary reasons for turnover and discuss job search priorities for recent plastic surgery graduates and established surgeons in job transitio...

The search for beauty and its value has been a discussion topic since the ancient Greeks composed their myths. The advent of safer and more advanced modern plastic surgery techniques and the spread of aesthetic medicine have renewed the search for beauty. Today, beauty seems possible, accessible, and more demo­ cratic than ever before [1]. To be beautiful is going to become an imperative, and f...

This study was prompted by the need to elaborate on recent developments in plastic design of, parallel chord Vierendeel girders (VG). The paper proposes exact, general solutions to two novel classes of VG under practical loading conditions, a-VG of uniform section, where the chords and the verticals may be composed of two different prismatic sections, and b-VG of uniform strength, where the con...

Recently I.) used velocity moments of a classical kinetic equation to derive a hydrody-namic description of electron motion in a degenerate electron gas. Independently , the present authors (Theochem 501-502, 327 (2000)) used considerations arising from the Harmonic Potential Theorem (Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2244 (1994)) to generate a new form of high-frequency hydrodynamics for in-homogeneous deg...

The closure problem for the stellar hydrodynamic equations is studied by describing the family of phase space density functions, for which the collisionless Boltzmann equation is strictly equivalent to a finite subset of moment equations. It is proven that the redundancy of the higher-order moment equations and the recurrence of the velocity moments are of similar nature. The method is based on...

With the development of multimedia technology and digital devices, it is increasingly easier to photograph a high quality image. Due to the facility of capture process, recapture phenomenon becomes popular, which is harmful sometimes. In this paper, an effective recaptured image forensics algorithm through color moments and DCT coefficients features is proposed. Central moments in chromatic spa...

S U M M A R Y The variation of frequency-dependent seismic wave attenuation with direction (attenuation anisotropy) contains additional information to that contained in velocity anisotropy. In particular, it has the potential to distinguish between different mechanisms that can cause velocity anisotropy. For example, aligned fracturing might be expected to cause measurable velocity and attenuat...