Images of human iris contain specular highlights due to the reflective properties of the cornea. This corneal reflection causes many errors not only in iris and pupil center estimation but also to locate iris and pupil boundaries especially for methods that use active contour. Each iris recognition system has four steps: Segmentation, Normalization, Encoding and Matching. In order to address th...

In this paper, reported algorithms for fog removal are reviewed. Fog reduces the visibility of scene and thus performance of various computer vision algorithms which use feature information. Formation of the fog is the function of the depth. Estimation of depth information is under constraints problem if single image is available. Hence, removal of fog requires assumptions or prior information....

Nanoparticles of strontium aluminate phosphors co-a tivated by Eu2+ and Dy3+ have been prepared by heating theprecursorsobtained fromnitrate salt–ammoniumacetic–urea–gel combustionprocess at temperature of 1150 ◦C in a weak reductive atmosphere of thermal carbon. Transmission electronmicroscope

surgical removal of impacted third molars is amongst the most common surgical procedures performed by oral and maxillofacial surgeons. every year many articles are published in different journals regarding different aspects in such surgeries. it is necessary to translate such vast amounts of data into simple and easily comprehensible sentences for the students of dentistry and oral surgery. thi...

Previous work has shown that organosilica-based xerogels have the potential to control biofouling. In this study, modifications of chemistry were investigated with respect to their resistance to marine slimes and to settlement of barnacle cyprids. Adhesion force measurements of bovine serum albumin (BSA)-coated atomic force microscopy (AFM) tips to xerogel surfaces prepared from aminopropylsily...

We study the development of conjunctive keyword searchable scheme which enables one to search encrypted documents by using more than one keyword. The notion of conjunctive keyword searching was presented by Golle et al. in 2004. However, their security model was constructed in a symmetric-key setting which is not applicable for the overall applications in the reality. So Park et al. extended Go...

In this paper we present several proofs on the extension of M. Riesz fractional integration and di¤erentiation to the contexts of spaces of homogeneous type and measure metric spaces with non-doubling measures. 1. Introduction, some de…nitions, and a basic lemma Professor M. Ash asked me to write a survey article on some of the results that Stephen Vági and I obtained in the nineties on fractio...

The introduction of more stringent pollution regulations, in relation to financial and social pressures for sustainable development, has pressed toward limiting the volumes of industrial and domestic effluents discharged into the environment as well as to increase the efforts within research and development of new or more efficient wastewater treatment technologies. Considering both discharge v...

The enrichment of denitrifying phosphate accumulating organisms (DNPAOs) is the prerequisite for the denitrifying phosphate removal process. This study investigated the effect of nitrate concentration on the enrichment of DNPAOs was studied with batch experiments. The Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) was set-up with acetate as the sole carbon source. The addition of nitrate solution and the anoxi...

The structure, IR absorption, luminescence, and luminescence excitation spectra of La 0.98-x Lu x Eu 0.02 BO 3 orthoborates synthesized at 970 o C were studied 0≤ x≤0.98. An increase in leads to a sequential change the structural state orthoborates. At first, compound has aragonite structure. Then, it becomes two-phase contains vaterite phases. With further x, compounds have then calcite and, f...