Kernel weight is important for plant breeders to select high productive plants. The determination of relationships between kernel weight and some fruit-kernel characteristics may provide necessary information for plant breeders in selection programs. In the present study, the relationships between kernel weight (KW) and 7 fruit-kernel characteristics: Fruit Length, (FL,), Fruit Width (FW) Fruit...

Desirable grain quality attributes vary depending upon the intended end use of grain. Environment, production practices and genetics are all of importance. Nutritional value of grain is most important for animal feed. Dry mill and alkaline cooked products require hard kernels with low breakage susceptibility and high protein concentration. Grain for these uses would best be produced under dryla...

This paper presents a novel classification model for biomedical images that involves automatic classification of microscopy and endoscopy images by using joint histogram of intensity and distance. Our proposed joint histogram can adequately capture intensity, texture and shape information (distribution) about the object of interest. We derive a kernel based on the Bhattacharya coefficient of jo...

We consider in this paper a class of variational models introduced for image decomposition into cartoon and texture in [16] (see also [9]), of the form infu { |u|BV + λ‖K ∗ (f − u)‖qLp } where K is a real analytic integration kernel. We analyse and characterize the extremals of these functionals and list some of their properties.

Removing the green husk and drying walnut are one of the most important steps in post-harvest processing of walnut. Therefore, it is need to precisely identify a walnut’s shell. Physical and mechanical properties of shell in the four Persian walnut cultivars/genotypes were studied. This study investigated the mechanical properties of a walnut’s husk and calculated the required energy in the pro...

AHAs act on both the epidermal and the dermal levels. When applied to the skin, AHAs stimulate the exfoliation of epidermal cells in the stratum corneum (s.c.) by interfering with the ionic bonding between these cells. This results in the sloughing off dull, rough skin and promotes cellular renewal. Initially used for treatment of hyperkeratosis and other skin conditions affecting s.c. turnover...

Particle filtering provides a general framework for propagating probability density functions in non-linear and non-Gaussian systems. However, generic particle filter (GPF) is based on Monte Carlo approach and sampling is a problematic issue. This paper introduces a parzen particle filter (PPF) which uses a general kernel approach to better approximate the posterior distribution rather than Dir...

The visualization of huge 3D objects becomes available on common workstations thanks to highly optimized data-structures and out-of-core frameworks for rendering. However, the editing, and in particular, the texturing of such objects is still a challenging task, since usual methods for optimized rendering are not easily amenable to interactive modification. In this paper, we introduce the idea ...

The visualization of huge 3D objects becomes available on common workstations thanks to highly optimized data-structures and out-of-core frameworks for rendering. However, the editing, and in particular, the texturing of such objects is still a challenging task, since usual methods for optimized rendering are not easily amenable to interactive modification. In this paper, we introduce the idea ...