Young galactic X-ray point sources (XPs) closely trace the ongoing star formation in galaxies. From measured XP number counts we extract the collective 2-10 keV luminosity of young XPs, L x , which we use to gauge the current star-formation rate (SFR) in galaxies. We find that, for a sample of local star-forming galaxies (i.e., normal spirals and mild starbursts), L x correlates linearly with t...

Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF), also referred to as Layered manufacturing (LM), is a new method of fabrication. Unlike conventional manufacturing (e.g., CNC machining), where a part is fabricated by selectively removing material from a workpiece, in SFF, a part is built by depositing material, layer-by-layer, under computer control. Solid Freeform Fabrication is in principle a 2.5D process st...

Shape from focus (SFF) estimates the depth profile of a 3D object using a sequence of observations. Due to the finite depth of field of real aperture cameras and the 3D nature of the object, none of the observations is completely in focus. However, in many applications, it is important to examine finer image details of the underlying object in conjunction with the depth map. We propose an exten...

To generate an all in focus image, the Shape-FromFocus (SFF) is used. The SFF key is finding the optimal focus depth at each pixel or area in an image within sequence of images. In this paper two new focusing measure operators are suggested to be used for SFF. The suggested operators are based on modification for the state of art tool for time-frequency analysis, the Stockwell Transform (ST). T...

The ASVspoof 2017 challenge is about the detection of replayed speech from human speech. The proposed system makes use of the fact that when the speech signals are replayed, they pass through multiple channels as opposed to original recordings. This channel information is typically embedded in low signal to noise ratio regions. A speech signal processing method with high spectro temporal resolu...

Shape from focus (SFF) which uses a sequence of space-variantly defocused frames works under the constraint that there is ‘no magnification’ in the stack. In the presence of sensor damage and/or occlusions, there will be missing data in the observations and SFF cannot recover structure in those regions. In many applications, the capability of fillingin missing data is of critical importance. In...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the static (SFF) and kinetic frictional forces (KFF) in sliding mechanics of hybrid bracket systems that involve placing a conventional bracket (CB) or active self-ligating bracket (ASLB) on the maxillary anterior teeth (MXAT) and a passive SLB (PSLB) on the maxillary posterior teeth (MXPT). METHODS The samples consisted of two thoroughbr...

We use data from the Hipparcos catalogue to construct colour-magnitude diagrams for the solar neighbourhood, which are then treated using advanced Bayesian analysis techniques to derive the star formation history, SFR(t), of this region over the last 3 Gyr. The method we use allows the recovery of the underlying SFR(t) without the need of assuming any a priori structure or condition on SFR(t), ...

We present evolutionary synthesis models of starbursts on top of old stellar populations to investigate in detailed time evolution the relation between Hα luminosity and star formation rate (SFR). The models show that several effects have an impact on the ratio between L(Hα) and SFR. Metallicity different from solar abundance, a time delay between star formation and maximum Hα-luminosity, and a...

Objective: To evaluate the effects of tooth displacement and vibration on frictional force and stickslip phenomenon (SSP) when conventional brackets were used with a levelling/alignment wire. Materials and Methods: The samples consisted of six groups (n = 10 per group) with combinations of tooth displacement (2 mm lingual displacement [LD], 2 mm gingival displacement [GD], and no displacement [...