The bilateral filter plays a key role in image processing applications due to its intuitive parameterization and its high quality filter result, smoothing homogeneous regions while preserving the edges of the objects. Considering the image as a topological relief, seeing pixel intensities as peaks and valleys, we introduce a way to control the tonal weighting coefficients, the flowing bilateral...

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Simulations of the flow of concentrated aggregated colloidal systems, at the particulate level, are used to investigate the distribution of stresses in the shear-thinning regime. It is found that the distribution of shear stress carried by interparticle bonds decays approximately exponentially at large stresses, but with a double-exponential distribution for values of positive stress. The micro...

A two-fluid continuum model is developed to describe mass transport in electro- and magnetorheological suspensions. The particle flux is related to the field-induced stresses. Solutions of the resulting mass balance show column formation in the absence of flow, and stripe formation when a suspension is subjected simultaneously to an applied electric field and shear flow.

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a Department of Public Health and the Environment, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Jamie Bartram (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2471/BLT.07.049619 Despite long-standing evidence that water sanitation and hygiene are fundamental to health, health institutions have become distanced from water and sanitation since the 1970s. In develop...

Ë partir de techniques basŽes sur lÕinterfŽromŽtrie holographique, lՎnergie totale transfŽrŽe par une Žtincelle aux gaz environnants a ŽtŽ mesurŽe en faisant varier la gŽomŽtrie des Žlectrodes de la bougie dÕallumage, la vitesse des gaz, la pression et le temps de charge de la bobine, cette dernire Žtant un modle standard pour automobile. Pour les diffŽrentes combinaisons et valeurs des para...