Thinning, insertion, and swapping algorithms for generating well-distributed hierarchical subsets of scattered data in a given domain in IR are proposed. It is found that thinning and insertion yield approximately similar results but that swapping is in general inferior.

A line following algorithm is presented as a means to perform line thinning on elongated figures. The method is faster than conventional thinning algorithms and not as sensitive to noise. It can be useful for other applications also.

BACKGROUND Thin hairs are critical to achieve natural result in female hairline correction surgery. However, there are few studies on the usefulness of hair thinning by intense pulsed light (IPL) after hairline correction surgery in East Asian females. METHODS Hair thinning using IPL was performed in 54 women who had complained about thick hairs along the frontal hairline after hairline corre...

The thin film pressure balance (TFPB) technique was used to study the kinetics of film thinning in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and sodium chloride (NaCl). The experimental results were compared with the predictions of the Reynolds equation. During the initial stages, the film thinning was controlled by the capillary pressure. As the film thickness is reduced, the process is con...

In resource-limited populations, an increase in average body size can occur only with a decline in abundance. This is known as self-thinning, and the decline in abundance in food-limited populations is considered proportional to the scaling of metabolism with body mass. This popular hypothesis may be inaccurate, because self-thinning populations can also experience density-dependent competition...

Main Outcome Measures: Cortical thickness and change in cortical thickness on a vertex-by-vertex basis across the cortical mantle, measures of functional and symptomatic outcome, and cumulative intake of anti­ psychotiCS during the scan interval. Results: At baseline, the schizophrenic patients had thinner left orbitofrontal and right parahippocampal and superior temporal cortices and a thicker...

Dept.of Mechnical Design Eng., Chosun Univ., 375 Seosuk-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju, Korea, [email protected] In this study, shearography and infrared thermography were used for measuring the wall thinning defects of the nuclear power plants pipes. It is very important to measure the wall thinning defects inside the pipes, because the wall thinning defects cause damage or destruction of the pipes. T...

This paper compares Hilditch, Rosenfeld, ZhangSuen, dan Nagendraprasad Wang Gupta (NWG) thinning algorithms for Javanese character image recognition. Thinning is an effective process when the focus in not on the size of the pattern, but rather on the relative position of the strokes in the pattern. The research analyzes the thinning of 60 Javanese characters. Time-wise, Zhang-Suen algorithm giv...

equipment availability is necessary in the development of agriculture mechanization. crop thinning is one of the most important stages in row crop production which is laborious and costly. the objective of this project is design and construction of a row crop thinning machine. four main system units are plant sensors, ground sensors, control and thinning platforms. in this machine the unwanted ...

This article presents a new turbulence closure based on the k-ω SST model for predicting turbulent flows of Herschel–Bulkley fluids, including Bingham and power-law fluids. The has been calibrated with direct numerical simulations (DNS) data fully-developed pipe flow shear-thinning viscoplastic shows good agreement in mean velocity, average viscosity, shear stress budget friction factor. latter...