Quantitative methods were used to assess dendritic stratification and other structural features of developing mouse retinal ganglion cells from birth to after eye opening. Cells were labeled by transgenic expression of yellow fluorescent protein, DiOlistics or diffusion of DiI, and subsequently imaged in three dimensions on a confocal microscope followed by morphometric analysis of 13 different...

The goal of image or video quality assessment is to evaluate if a distorted image or video is of a good quality by measuring the difference between the original and distorted images or videos. In this paper, to assess the visual quality of an arbitrary distorted image or a compressed video, visual features of the image or video are compared with those of the original image or video instead of d...

Geological CO2 sequestration relies on a competent sealing layer, or caprock, that bounds the formation top and prevents vertical migration of fluids. Modeling studies have shown that the caprock boundary can significantly decrease updip migration speed of CO2 and increase structural trapping . The trapping phenomenon depends on the structure and topography, or roughness, of the caprock that ca...

The rapid printing of 3D parts with desired electrical properties enables numerous applications. Fused deposition modeling (FDM) using conductive thermoplastic composites has been a valuable approach for such fabrication. The parts produced by FDM possess various controllable structural features, but the effects of the structural features on the electrical properties remain to be determined. Th...

Plasmonics allow localization of an electromagnetic (EM) field into nanoscale "hotspots", a feature that is of technological significance due to potential applications related to spectroscopic sensing and nanofocusing. In relation to this, many researchers have sought to fabricate metallic nanostructures with sharp edges, as they provide much higher EM field enhancement compared with rounded st...

One of the most important factors influencing the track maintenance is the transitions between parts of the track with different vertical stiffness. The dynamic...

One of the most widely known representatives apatite family is hydroxyapatite, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2. This mineral a part human dental and bone tissues, and, therefore, used in medicine. Less oxyapatite, Ca10(PO4)6O, which has same biocompatibility as hydroxyapatite. In this work, it shown that oxyapatite can be obtained by heating hydroxyapatite powder at 1000 °C vacuum. IR NMR spectroscopy proved a...

Feature selection is a data preprocessing step for classi cation and data mining tasks Tradition ally feature selection is done by selecting a mini mum number of features that determine the class label i e by the horizontal compactness of data In this paper we propose a new selection cri terion that aims at the vertical compactness of data In particular we select a subset of fea tures that yiel...