The stress capacity of joints made of modified wood members under loading can be affected by design of joints and type of adhesive. Hence, these factors were addressed in this study by assessment of stress capacity variations in corner joints under diagonal applied compressive load induced combined stresses. The joints with mitered and butted design were constructed by application of epoxy and ...

* This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant 9721358. Abstract Edgebreaker is a simple technique for compressing 3D triangle meshes. We introduce here a new formulation, which leads to a simple implementation. We describe it in terms of a data structure, the Corner Table, which represents the connectivity of any manifold triangle mesh as two table ...

We present the outcome of four-corner wrist arthrodesis using two headless compression screws for fixation. The study group consisted of 27 patients who underwent arthrodesis from 1998 through 2007. Data on demographic parameters, diagnosis, range of motion, pain and complications were collected from the medical files. A total of 77 series of anteroposterior, oblique, and lateral x-rays were re...

Corner detection is a critical component of many image analysis and understanding tasks, such as object recognition matching. Our research indicates that existing corner algorithms cannot properly depict the difference between edges corners this results in wrong detections. In paper, capability second-order generalized (isotropic anisotropic) Gaussian directional derivative filters to suppress ...

We examine connections between combinatorial notions that arise in machine learning and topological cubical/simplicial geometry. These enable to export results from geometry learning. Our first main result is based on a geometric construction by Tracy Hall (2004) [20] of partial shelling the cross-polytope which can not be extended. From it, we derive maximum class VC dimension 3 without corner...

This study used pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) and determined the surface pressure distributions for a compressible swept convex-corner flow. The freestream Mach numbers were 0.64 0.83. angle were, respectively, 10–17° 5–15°. Expansion compression near corner apex clearly visualized. For test case of shock-induced boundary layer separation, there greater spanwise gradient curved shocks. acquire...

Phonak led the way in modern frequency lowering technology with the introduction of SoundRecover in 2008. Since then, extensive worldwide field studies with adults and children have found increased detection, distinction and recognition of high frequency sounds, better speech understanding and significant improvement in intonation and overall voice quality for users. For those with more extreme...

In this paper, we propose a novel scheme for image compression by the curvelet transform. Curve functions are effective in representing functions that have discontinuities along straight lines. Normal wavelet transforms fail to represent such functions effectively. Modification of the traditional JPEG method based on region-of-interest coding is achieved and used curvelet transform. The modific...