The recently proposed quality measure is used to find the local ground approximation (LGA) from the data measured with the terrestrial laser scanning (TLS). The measure is the number of points in a thin layer located directly above the approximating surface. It can be optimized with the hill climbing algorithm. The method is robust against the data which can be treated as outliers from the grou...

In this paper an automatic unsupervised method for the segmentation of retinal vessels is proposed. A Self-Organizing Map is trained on a portion of the same image that is tested and K-means clustering algorithm is used to divide the map units in 2 classes. The entire image is again input for the Self-Organizing Map, and the class of each pixel will be the class of the best matching unit on the...

A study was carried out using 24 upland rice genotypes grown in randomized block design with three replications to estimate genetic variability, correlation and path coefficient analysis. Based on the mean performance, of high grain yield per hill, genotype SHUATS UPR-13 followed by UPR-11 were identified be superior. High phenotypic genotypic variation observed for biological hill number panic...

Abstract Buildings located on hill slopes are subjected to additional effects under seismic action compared with those flat ground. This article presents Incremental Dynamic Analyses of coupled building‐slope systems incorporating topographic amplification, nonlinear slope movement and irregular structural configuration hill‐side buildings. Two different stable slopes, supporting single multipl...

Intact mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts wee isolated from the NADP-malic enzyme type C(4) plants maize, sorghum (monocots), and Flaveria trinervia (dicot) using enzymic digestion and mechanical isolation techniques. Bundle sheath chloroplasts of this C(4) subgroup tend to be agranal and were previously reported to be deficient in photosystem II activity. However, following injection of ...