The Kuhn-Tucker and envelope theorems can be used to characterize the solution to a wide range of constrained optimization problems: static or dynamic, under perfect foresight or featuring randomness and uncertainty. In addition, these same two results provide foundations for the work on the maximum principle and dynamic programming that we will do later on. For both of these reasons, the Kuhn-...

Biological systems provide many examples of specifically tailored, nanostructured molecules with highly optimized properties and characteristics. These biomaterials are composite materials and consist of an inorganic component and a special organic matrix. Crystalline bacterial cell surface layers (S-layers( are the outermost cell envelope component of many eubacteria and archaea and are compos...

This paper introduces an approach for retrieving envelope of high-level object groupings in bi-level images with multiple objects. Motivated by studies in Gestalt theory, hierarchical clustering is used to detect the envelope and group its objects based on their spatial proximity, area, shape features and orientation. To decide the final grouping, the grouping outcomes are combined using an evi...

This paper proposes a method to vibration analysis in order to on-line monitoring of milling process quality. Adapting envelope analysis to characterize the milling tool materials is an important contribution to the qualitative and quantitative characterization of milling capacity and a step by modeling the three-dimensional cutting process. An experimental protocol was designed and developed f...

Biological systems provide many examples of specifically tailored, nanostructured molecules with highly optimized properties and characteristics. These biomaterials are composite materials and consist of an inorganic component and a special organic matrix. Crystalline bacterial cell surface layers (S-layers( are the outermost cell envelope component of many eubacteria and archaea and are compos...

This paper proposes novel techniques for scheduling radar dwells in phased array radar systems. In order to handle complex physical characteristics such as dwell interleaving, transmitting duty cycle constraint, and energy constraint, we propose a notion of schedulability envelope. The schedulability envelope designed offline hides the details of complex radar dwell scheduling and provides a si...

Insights into the molecular mechanism underlying nuclear envelope breakdown (NEBD) are crucial to understand dynamic changes of the nuclear envelope (NE) that occur at mitotic entry of eukaryotic cells. In this paper, we present an image processing algorithm and its implementation in KNIME, which allows to automatically quantify image data obtained from the in vitro NEBD assay. The algorithm co...