Although lead shot has been banned for waterfowl hunting in North America, some predators continue to exhibit elevated lead burdens, which has been attributed to ingesting metallic lead from other projectiles. Few studies have investigated residual lead fragments in hunted upland animals. Therefore, specific portals for lead entering wildlife food chains remain largely unknown. Prairie dogs (Cy...

newell's learning stages model is a learning model based on dynamic systems theory which is divided to three stages based on the relationship among learners' degree of freedom. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of attention focus of instruction on learning a simple skill (throwing darts) and a complex skill (non-dominant foot chip shot). thestudyconsistedoftwoexperim...

Shot peening is widely used to improve fatigue life of the metal component. It can also induce the distortion of thin component, which is called peen forming and is widely used for shaping aircraft wing skin. Shot peening surface coverage, intensity and saturation are important shot peening control parameters and have greatly influence on shot peening and peen forming results. Due to the insuff...

In this paper, we describe a new approach of shot boundary detection in digital videos which is able to detect not only hard cuts but special effects like wipes, fades, and dissolves as well. Our approach is divided into two steps – feature extraction and shot boundary detection. First, three different features for the measurement of shot boundaries within the video are extracted. Second, detec...

Shot Peening process relies on multiple impacts of spherical media to a surface to achieve residual compressive stresses. This results in improved material characteristic.0utofthetwomethodd propeilingshotsforpeeningviz. Airless Shot Peening and Pneumatic Shot Peeningthis papercteals with essentials of centrifugal Blasting Machine and converting a centrifugal Airless Blast Machine to a Shot Peen...

Shot boundary detection is an important fundamental process toward automatic video indexing, retrieval, editing, etc. After a critical review of most approaches seeking to solve this problem, we propose a novel shot boundary detection. To improve the performance of the algorithm and reduce the computational cost, frames that are clearly not shot boundaries are first removed from the original vi...

Detection of shot boundaries in a video has been an active for quite a long time, t ill the TRECVID community almost declared it as a solved problem. A problem is assumed to be solved when there is no significant improvement being achieved from that of the state-of-the art methodologies. However, certain aspects can still be researched and improved. For instance, finding appropriate parameters ...