In aquaculture, the process of hybridization is used to produce animals that have better growth rates, meat quality, and higher resistance and tolerance to environmental variations than their parental species. The identification of a hybrid fish may require a DNA-based technology that is an expensive process. In this study, the sagittal otolith shape of hatchery-reared brook trout (Salvelinus f...

Abstract Over the last two decades, improvements in developing computational tools made significant contributions to the classification of biological specimens` images to their correspondence species. These days, identification of biological species is much easier for taxonomist and even non-taxonomists due to the development of automated computer techniques and systems.  In this study, we d...

Identification can be a major issue in causal modeling contexts, and in contexts where observational studies have various limitations. Partially identified models can arise, whereby the identification region for a target parameter--the set of values consistent with the law of the observable data--is strictly contained in the set of a priori plausible values, but strictly contains the single tru...

Title of thesis: Shape Identification And Ranking In Temporal Data Sets Machon Gregory, Master of Science, 2009 Thesis directed by: Professor Ben Shneiderman Department of Computer Science Shapes are a concise way to describe temporal variable behaviors. Some commonly used shapes are spikes, sinks, rises, and drops. A spike describes a set of variable values that rapidly increase, then immediat...

This paper concerns the problem identifying geometrical boundary shapes of domains in which elliptic boundary value problems are defined. Such identification problems can be formulated as minimization problems of squared error integrals between the actual solutions of the elliptic boundary value problems and their reference data with respect to perturbation of the uncertain boundary. Mathematic...

PURPOSE Detecting and recognizing three-dimensional (3D) objects is an important component of the visual accessibility of public spaces for people with impaired vision. The present study investigated the impact of environmental factors and object properties on the recognition of objects by subjects who viewed physical objects with severely reduced acuity. METHODS The experiment was conducted ...

Several researches in leaf identification did not include color information as features. The main reason is caused by a fact that they used green colored leaves as samples. However, for foliage plants—plants with colorful leaves, fancy patterns in their leaves, and interesting plants with unique shape—color and also texture could not be neglected. For example, Epipremnum pinnatum ‘Aureum’ and E...

In geometric inverse problems, it is assumed that some parts of domain boundaries are not accessible and geometric shape and dimensions of these parts cannot be measured directly. The aim of inverse geometry problems is to approximate the unknown boundary shape by conducting some experimental measurements on accessible surfaces. In the present paper, the artificial neural network is used to sol...