While XANES spectroscopy is an established tool for quantitative information on chemical structure and speciation, elemental concentrations are generally quantified by other methods. The edge step in XANES spectra represents the absolute amount of the measured element in the sample, but matrix effects and sample thickness complicate the extraction of accurate concentrations from XANES measureme...

As graphs become bigger, the need to efficiently partition them becomes more pressing. Most graph partitioning algorithms subdivide the vertex set into partitions of similar size, trying to keep the number of cut edges as small as possible. An alternative approach divides the edge set, with the goal of obtaining more balanced partitions in presence of high-degree nodes, such as hubs in real wor...

Nonlinear transfer processes between large-scale edge flows and the ambient broadband fluctuations have been shown to play a significant role in the dynamics of edge turbulence, including spreading power from coherent modes and suppressing turbulence at the formation of edge transport barriers. In order to predict thresholds of confinement regimes, both the transition dynamics and the parametri...

Serial (baseline and 9-month follow-up) intravascular ultrasound analysis was performed at 5-mm reference segments immediately proximal and distal to the sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) in 33 lesions. Proximal and distal reference segments were divided into 1-mm subsegments. Between postintervention and follow-up intravascular ultrasound studies, there were significant decreases in the lumen and ...

ÐComputing the weighted average of the pixel values in a window is a basic module in many computer vision operators. The process is reformulated in a linear vector space and the role of the different subspaces is emphasized. Within this framework wellknown artifacts of the gradient-based edge detectors, such as large spurious responses can be explained quantitatively. It is also shown, that tem...

Calibration of scanners and cameras usually involves measuring the point spread function (PSF). When edge data is used to measure the PSF, the differentiation step amplifies the noise. A parametric fit of the functional form of the edge spread function (ESF) directly to the measured edge data is proposed to eliminate this. Experiments used to test this method show that the Cauchy functional for...

let $g$ be a simple connected graph. the edge-wiener index $w_e(g)$ is the sum of all distances between edges in $g$, whereas the hyper edge-wiener index $ww_e(g)$ is defined as {footnotesize $w{w_e}(g) = {frac{1}{2}}{w_e}(g) + {frac{1}{2}} {w_e^{2}}(g)$}, where {footnotesize $ {w_e^{2}}(g)=sumlimits_{left{ {f,g} right}subseteq e(g)} {d_e^2(f,g)}$}. in this paper, we present explicit formula fo...

Let G = (V, E) be a network for an assignment problem with 2n nodes and m edges, in which the largest edge cost is C. Recently the class of instances of bipartite matching problems has been shown to be in RNC provided that C is O(logk n) for some fixed k. We show how to use scaling so as to develop an improved parallel algorithm and show that bipartite matching problems are in the class RNC pro...

This work investigates the C K-edge x-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES), valence-band photoelectron spectroscopy (PES), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra of Si-doped hydrogenated amorphous carbon films. The C K-edge XANES and valence-band PES spectra indicate that the sp2 /sp3 population ratio decreases as the amount of tetramethylsilane vapor precursor increases during dep...

In this paper, a novel camera tamper detection algorithm is proposed to detect three types of tamper attacks: covered, moved and defocused. The edge disappearance rate is defined in order to measure the amount of edge pixels that disappear in the current frame from the background frame while excluding edges in the foreground. Tamper attacks are detected if the difference between the edge disapp...