Gelatin/1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride solutions are prepared by using the ionic liquid 1-allyl-3methylimidazolium chloride as solvent. The rheological properties of the gelatin solutions have been investigated by steady shear and oscillatory shear measurements. In the steady shear measurements, the gelatin solutions with high concentration show a shear-thinning flow behavior at high shea...

The detectivity D* limits of YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7-x) bolometers on 0.05-cm-thick crystalline substrates are investigated, and a method to increase D* to greater than 10(9) (cm Hz(1/2))/W at a 20-microm wavelength is proposed. Because the response increases proportionally with the bias current I(b), whereas the noise near T(c) (the transition or critical temperature) of our MgO and SrTiO(3) substrate ...

Thinning is an iterative object reduction technique for extracting medial curves from binary objects. During a thinning process, some border points that satisfy certain topological and geometric constraints are deleted in iteration steps. Parallel thinning algorithms are composed of parallel reduction operators that delete a set of object points simultaneously. This article presents 21 parallel...

Thinning is an important task in many image processing applications, including remote sensing, photogrammetry, optical character recognition, and medical imaging. In this study, we compare the performance of thinning algorithms on parallel hardware. Grayscale thinning involves a substantial amount of computation per pixel, and may be accelerated in several ways: algorithmic improvements, code o...

In most of the sheet forming processes, production of the parts with minimum thickness variation and low required force is important. In this research, minimization of the sheet thinning and forming force in the hydraulic deep drawing process has been studied. Firstly, the process is simulated using the finite element method (FEM) and simulation model is verified using the experimental results....

The study analyses the annual post-thinning response and thinning bias of a young Scots pine stand as a function of tree size, competition faced by the tree, and competition that is removed around the tree in the thinning treatment. The thinning response of a tree was defi ned as the change of tree growth due to a thinning treatment. The thinning bias was defi ned as the difference between the ...

This paper studies adaptive thinning strategies for approximating a large set of scattered data by piecewise linear functions over triangulated subsets. Our strategies depend on both the locations of the data points in the plane, and the values of the sampled function at these points — adaptive thinning. All our thinning strategies remove data points one by one, so as to minimize an estimate of...

Forest management activities, such as tree thinning, alter forest ecology, including key components of forest ecosystems, including fungal communities. In the present study, we investigate the effects of forest thinning intensity on the populations and structures of fungal soil communities in the Cryptomeria japonica forests of central Taiwan as well as the dynamics of soil fungi communities in...

Assessment of tracheal stenoses, infra-renal aortic aneurysms, and colorectal polyps [7] Quantitative analysis of tubular tree structures [8] 3D Thinning Algorithms [9] Thinning algorithms based on sufficient conditions for topology preservation [10] Short description: The thinning is an iterative layer by layer erosion until only the "skeletons" of the objects are left. We proposed various 3D ...

Recent observations have shown that the periphery of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is thinning rapidly and that this thinning is greatest around marine-terminating outlet glaciers. Several theories have been proposed which provide a link between climate and ice thinning. We present surface elevation change (dh/dt) data from NASA’s Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA) laser al...