The paper presents the semi-numerical solution for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) viscous flow due to a stretching sheet caused by boundary layer of an incompressible viscous flow. The governing partial differential equations of momentum equations are reduced into a nonlinear ordinary differential equation (NODE) by using a classical similarity transformation along with appropriate boundary cond...

Many recent studies have shown that glycosylation patterns of Agaricus bisporus are similar to those of mammalians, so that this organism is a good candidate for the expression of glycosylated pharmaceutical protein. To achieve constant interested gene expression in all cells of the organism, proper promoter isolation is necessary. To isolate this promoter, PCR with specific primers was perform...

This paper introduces a hierarchical algorithm for the registration of corresponding images that do not necessarily have strong global similarity, such as multi-modal images, images with varying illumination (or specular reflection) and images with significant local motion. The method is based on the global maximization of an average local correlation measure, without the generation of similari...

This paper considers formation shape control of multiple robots while minimizing the maximum distance of robot covered. Previous studies have shown that the shape of formation is set of similarity transformations of that and solved the problem by using convex optimization. However, not only the similarity transformation but also permutation transformation preserves the shape of formation. There...

Abstrakt The task of similarity search in image databases has been studied for decades, while there have been many feature extraction techniques proposed. Among the mass of low-level techniques dealing with color, texture, layout, etc., an extraction of shapes provides better semantic description of the content in raster image. However, even such specific task as shape extraction is very comple...

Drug absorption in the human body depends on the dissolution rate of the drug. Suitable dissolution characteristics are important to ensure that the drug will achieve the desired therapeutic effects. To assess the similarity of dissolution rates of several drug lots, we apply a general growth curve model with different covariance structures. The Box-Cox power transformation and the naive log tr...

Multiplication of a ratio scale by a positive constant (a similarity transformation) causes the values to change to a different unit of measure without upsetting relative ratios between objects. Because the relative ratios of any two objects are uniquely represented, a column vector estimating the same objects can be expressed as a comparison matrix which has no effect of any similarity transfo...

Recognition of objects in highly structured surroundings is a challenging task, because the appearance of target objects changes due to fluctuations in their surroundings. This makes the problem highly context dependent. Due to the lack of knowledge about the target class, we also encounter a difficulty delimiting the non-target class. Hence, objects can neither be recognized by their similarit...

Current longitudinal image registration methods rely on the assumption that image appearance between time-points remains constant or changes uniformly within intensity classes. This assumption, however, is not valid for magnetic resonance imaging of brain development. Registration methods developed to align images with non-uniform appearance change either (i) locally minimize some global simila...

This paper concerns the form-finding problem for general and symmetric tensegrity structures with shape constraints. A number of different geometries are treated and several fundamental properties of tensegrity structures are identified that simplify the form-finding problem. The concept of a tensegrity invariance (similarity) transformation is defined and it is shown that tensegrity equilibriu...