Cognition or higher brain activity is sometimes seen as a phenomenon greater than the sum of its parts. This viewpoint however is largely dependent on the state of the art of experimental techniques that endeavor to characterize morphology and its association to function. Retinal ganglion cells are readily accessible for this work and we discuss recent advances in computational techniques in id...

The parental material of soils in the Qilian Mountains of northwest China is mainly aeolian loess containing CaCO3 which may remain in soils under the semiarid-arid climate. To disclose the CaCO3 characteristics change with the altitude and the terrain attributes, we surveyed 18 soil profiles in an altitude sequence from 3076 m to 4510 m in the Hulugou Watershed in the Qilian Mountains, measure...

The selection of seismic attributes is a key process in reservoir prediction because the prediction accuracy relies on the reliability and credibility of the seismic attributes. However, effective selection method for useful seismic attributes is still a challenge. This paper presents a novel selection method of seismic attributes for reservoir prediction based on the gray relational degree (GR...

An important problem in accessing and retrieving visual information is to provide efficient similarity machining in large databases. In this paper we propose partial retrieval by the shape similarity using Curvature Scale Space and an effective indexing using metric trees and a Bayesian approach. Each shape is partitioned into token attributes. Tokens are organized in a tree structure called M-...

introduction: complete knowledge of root canal curvature is a critical factor in successful dental treatment .the aim of this study was to investigate the direction, radius and degree of curvature of maxillary anterior teeth and the relation between radius and degree of curvature in babol city. methods &materials;: this study was performed on 242 anterior teeth radiographs were taken by periapi...

A raster grid with 1m spacing was created using simple kriging from LiDAR point clouds. The 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 10 m resolution were created from the original 1 m DEM using nearest neighbor resampling method. The derived DEM were used to study the sensitivity of terrain attributes while changing DEM resolution and possibly introduce a minimum required resolution for the study area. A variety of ...

The index of a metric plays significant roles in differential geometry as it generates variety of vector fields such as space-like, time-like, and light-like fileds. With the help of these vector fields, we establish interesting properties on ( )-Sasakian manifolds, which was introduced by Bejancu and Duggal [1] and further investigated by Xufeng and Xiaoli [2]. Since Sasakian manifolds with in...

We derive new, sharp lower bounds for certain curvature functionals on the space of Riemannian metrics of a smooth compact 4manifold with a non-trivial Seiberg-Witten invariant. These allow one, for example, to exactly compute the infimum of the L2-norm of Ricci curvature for all complex surfaces of general type. We are also able to show that the standard metric on any complex hyperbolic 4manif...

potential field images obtained in potential field data measurements are suitable tools for mineral and hydrocarbons resources explorations. these images consist of different anomalies which in many cases are contaminated with noise. the horizontal location of the boundaries of potential field anomaly sources is of interest in potential field interpretation. however, the edge of potential field...