Colloidal cubic silicon carbide (SiC) nanocrystals with an average diameter of 4.4 nm have been fabricated by anisotropic wet chemical etching of microsized cubic SiC powder. Fourier transform infrared spectra show that these cubic SiC nanocrystals contain carboxylic acid, SiH, CH, and CHx groups. UV/Vis absorption and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy clearly indicate that water and ethanol ...

We present approximation algorithms for point-to-surface registration problems which have applications in medical navigation systems. One of the central tasks of such a system is to determine a “good” mapping (the registration transformation or registration for short) of the coordinate system of the operation theatre onto the coordinate system of a 3D model M of a patient, generated from CRor M...

In this paper, we investigate four methods that yield mathematical measures to analyze the precision of surfaces of manufactured parts. These four methods, namely the au-tocorrelation function, the Fourier spectrum, the Karhunen-Lo eve expansion, and a fractal-wavelet representation, are applied to surfaces produced from grinding processes. The rst two methods are standard methods used in the s...

Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) curves are commonly applied as metrics for quantifying the performance of binary fault detection systems. An ROC curve provides a visual representation of a detection system’s True Positive Rate versus False Positive Rate sensitivity as the detection threshold is varied. The area under the curve provides a measure of fault detection performance independent...

Making use of the extended flux homomorphism defined in [13] on the group SympΣg of symplectomorphisms of a closed oriented surface Σg of genus g ≥ 2, we introduce new characteristic classes of foliated surface bundles with symplectic, equivalently area-preserving, total holonomy. These characteristic classes are stable with respect to g and we show that they are highly non-trivial. We also pro...

Capillary endothelial cells have a large population of small (65-80 nm diameter in transmission electron microscopy) vesicles of which a large fraction is associated with the plasmalemma of the luminal and abluminal side. We studied the fine structure and distribution of these plasmalemmal vesicles by high resolution scanning electron microscopy in cultured endothelial cells obtained from bovin...

We construct a new ovoid of the polar space arising from the Hermitian surface of PGð3; qÞ with qd 5 odd. The automorphism group G of such an ovoid has a normal cyclic subgroup F of order 12 ðqþ 1Þ such that G=FGPGLð2; qÞ. Furthermore, G has three orbits on the ovoid, one of size qþ 1 and two of size 12 qðq 1Þðqþ 1Þ.