Microwave radiometers, while traditionally utilized in atmospheric and oceanic studies, can also be used in land surface applications. However, the problem of undesirable atmospheric effects caused by clouds and precipitation must be addressed. In this paper, temporal composite surface brightness images are generated from special sensor microwave/imager (SSM/I) data with the aid of new algorith...

ethan kohlberg, the jewish orientalist and specialist on shi‘a, sees the distortion in holy scriptures, including quran, inevitable. from his point of view, some quranic verses confirm this point. his second proof is the history of the quran and the time when its whole text was written down. in his viewpoint,   hadiths which prove that the quran had been written down in abu bakr’s time ore orie...

For a surface patch on a smooth, two-dimensional surface in IR, low-distortion parameterizations are described in terms of minimizers of suitable energy functionals. Appropriate distortion measures are derived from principles of rational mechanics, closely related to the theory of non-linear elasticity. The parameterization can be optimized with respect to the varying importance of conformality...

Retexturing is the process of realistically replacing the texture of an object or surface in a given image by a new, synthetic one, such that texture distortion as well as lighting conditions of the original image are preserved. The key challenge is to separate the shading information from the actual local texture and to retrieve the texture distortion from an image without any knowledge of the...

The human brain cortex is a highly convoluted sheet. Mapping of the cortical surface into a canonical coordinate space is an important tool for the study of the structure and function of the brain. Here, we present a technique based on least-square conformal mapping with spring energy for the mapping of the cortical surface. This method aims to reduce the metric and area distortion while mainta...

The structure and strain of ultrathin CoO films grown on a Pt(0 0 1) substrate and on a ferromagnetic FePt pseudomorphic layer on Pt(0 0 1) have been determined with in situ and real time surface x-ray diffraction. The films grow epitaxially on both surfaces with an in-plane hexagonal pattern that yields a pseudo-cubic CoO(1 1 1) surface. A refined x-ray diffraction analysis reveals a slight mo...

Chemical doping in materials is known to give rise to emergent phenomena. These phenomena are extremely difficult to predict a priori, because electron-electron interactions are entangled with local environment of assembled atoms. Scanning tunneling microscopy and low energy electron diffraction are combined to investigate how the local electronic structure is correlated with lattice distortion...

Densification and distortion of W-Ni-Fe tungsten heavy alloys during liquid phase sintering are modeled using constitutive laws of grain growth, densification, and deformation. The models are ‘‘calibrated’’ via carefully designed experiments to obtain the necessary parameters to enable modeling. Metallographic analysis of quenched samples is used to obtain grain size data as functions of time a...

We describe electric-field-induced fluctuations in the elastic scattering near optical resonances of a spherical aerosol particle trapped at the null point of an electrodynamic levitator. The particle is apparently driven into a quadrupolar distortion by the electromechanical stress at its surface. Our results coupled with recent theory indicate that the effect is principally due to a modulatio...