Our visual system preferentially groups contour segments that not only have the same orientation but are colinear as well. Long-range horizontal connections are thought to play an important role in context-dependent modi"cations of neuronal responses. Since the topology of these connections shows a close relation to the perceptual grouping criterion of colinearity, we tested whether the statist...

The induced cracks on the concrete lining of the intake pressure tunnels may cause the water seep into the surrounding media leading to develop a hydro pressure on the external surface of the lining. In the common design practice, the lining can be designed to tolerate with this pressure using the Schleiss method. However, when the tunnel is constructed above the underground water, the seepage ...

The Fundamental matrix is a key concept when working with uncalibrated images and multiple viewpoints. It contains all the available geometric information and enables to recover the epipolar geometry from uncalibrated perspective views. This paper addresses the important problem of its robust determination given a number of image point correspondences. We rst de ne precisely this matrix, and sh...

motion analysis and quality assessment of human sperm cell is of great importance for clinical applications of male infertility. sperm tracking is quite complex due to cell collision, occlusion and missed detection. the goal of this study is simultaneous tracking of multiple human sperm cells. in the first step in this research the frame difference algorithm is used for background subtraction. ...

this study compared the use of five different models to describe the growth from birth to 20 weeks of age of kids from both genders of nondescript goats. fifty nine (59) nondescript kids were weighed weekly at the university of maiduguri livestock teaching and research farm, nigeria and the live weights were modeled. biologically relevant variables were estimated for each kid from the logistic,...

in this paper, we consider non-linear ginsburg-pitaevski-gross equation with the rosen-morse and modifiedwoods-saxon potentials which is corresponding to the quantum vortices and has important applications in turbulence theory. we use the runge- kutta-fehlberg approximation method to solve the resulting non-linear equation.

Cerebral metabolism is critically dependent on the regulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF), so it would be expected that vascular mechanisms that play a critical role in CBF regulation would be tightly conserved across individuals. However, the relationships between blood pressure (BP) and cerebral blood velocity fluctuations exhibit inter-individual variations consistent with heterogeneity in ...