The ring-sheared drop is a containerless system where shear imparted by two contact rings, one rotating and the other stationary. In microgravity, aqueous drops can be studied in air at centimeter scale. Drops of this scale also experimentally on Earth, but effects gravity need to mitigated density matching liquid its surrounding fluid. use silicone oil surrounded an solution allows while retai...

Shadows are everywhere, but they usually go unnoticed. We do, however, use their consequences all the time. Figure 1A shows two pictures each with a green square in front of a checkerboard background. The two pictures differ only in the cast shadows of the square. Because of these differences, the right square appears to be further from the background than the left square. By adding motion to t...

Appearance-based approaches have the advantage of representing the variability of an object’s appearance due to illumination change without explicit shape modeling. While a substantial amount of research has been performed on the representation of object’s diffuse and specular shading, little attention has been paid to cast shadows which are critical for attaining realism when multiple objects ...

We consider communication protocols for N -way all-cast relay networks, which comprise N source terminals such that each source terminal demands messages from all other source terminals with the help of a relay. The derived protocols are characterized by the fact that physical layer network coding is employed at the relay, where each source has side information about the signals it has sent. Am...

The paper describes a reliable and rapid method for detecting and removing a color cast (i.e. a superimposed dominant color) in a digital image without any a priori knowledge of its semantic content. A multi-step algorithm classifies the input images as having no cast, evident cast, ambiguous cast, or intrinsic cast (images presenting a cast due to a predominant color that must be preserved). I...

This paper presents a n ew method for detection and adjustment color cast. Using the neural network to detect color cast and classify images into three subsets: no cast, real cast, and intrinsic cast (image presenting a cast due to a predominant color that must be preserved). We have a database of 700 images which are downloaded from internet or acquired using various digital still cameras. We ...

Calpastatin (CAST) is a specific inhibiter of Calpains, playing a role in meat tenderization and myogenesis. In the present study the polymorphism of the CAST gene ofKhalkhali goat in Azerbaijan province in Iran was investigated by polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism technique (PCR-RFLP). Genomic DNA was extracted from whole blood samples collected from 200 Kh...

Fish gelatin films made from Alaska pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) and Alaska pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) were dried at 4 C, 23 C, 40 C, and 60 C. The tensile, thermal, thermal stability, water sorption, and water vapor permeability properties were examined for cold-cast gelatin films (dried below gelation temperature at 4 C) and hot-cast gelatin films (dried above gelation temperatur...

not beginning or completing the vaccination schedule as recommended in the expanded programme on immunization is one of the major reasons for low immunization coverage. it should be studied in detail for remedial action, if the objectives of the epi in iran are to be achieved as stated. generally, lack of knowledge, lack of motivation and obstacles ore the basic categorical reasons for low cove...