Morphology and physical properties of mono(YBa2Cu3O7) and multilayered (YBa2Cu3O7/SmBa2Cu3O7/ YBa2Cu3O7) superconducting thin films with thickness ranging from 90 nm to 28 nm have been investigated. For both types of samples, the superconducting properties degraded with reduction of film thickness. Structural and electromagnetic properties were visualized through scanning electron microscopy an...

[1] The weathering of meteorites found on Mars involves chemical and physical processes that can provide clues to climate conditions at the location of their discovery. Beginning on sol 1961, the Opportunity rover encountered three large iron meteorites within a few hundred meters of each other. In order of discovery, these rocks have been assigned the unofficial names Block Island, Shelter Isl...

Overwash is a physical process of coastal sediment transport driven by storm events and is essential to landscape resilience in low-lying barrier environments. This work establishes a comprehensive set of scaling laws for overwash morphology: unifying quantitative descriptions with which to compare overwash features by their morphological attributes across case examples. Such scaling laws also ...

In some languages, gender is a grammatical property of the noun. Grammatical gender identification enhances machine translation of such languages. This paper reports a three staged approach for grammatical gender identification that makes use of word and morphological features only. A Morphological Analyzer is used to extract the morphological features. In stage one, association rule mining is ...

The median operator is a nonlinear (morphological) image transformation which has become very popular because it can suppress noise while preserving the edges. I t treats the foreground and background of an image in an identical way, that is, it is a self-dual operator. Unfortunately, the median operator lacks the idempotence property: it is not a morphological filter. This paper gives a comple...

This paper proposes a general algebraic construction technique for image scale-spaces. The basic idea is to rst downscale the image by some factor using an invertible scaling, then apply an image operator (linear or morphological) at a unit scale, and nally resize the image to its original scale. It is then required that the resulting one-parameter family of image operators satisses the semigro...

This paper provides a novel descriptive and theoretical account for the ‘down-play’ mood marker ge in Mandarin Chinese. One essential property that is not covered by previous studies is its clitic status. Incorporating and enhancing Yang’s (2001) clitic treatment of numeral-less classifiers, I propose a morphosyntactic analysis that identifies the morphological-template for the mood marker ge −...

This paper proposes a general algebraic construction technique for image scale-spaces. The basic idea is to rst downscale the image by some factor using an invertible scaling, then apply an image operator (linear or morphological) at a unit scale, and nally resize the image to its original scale. It is then required that the resulting one-parameter family of image operators satis es the semigro...