Pashmina, popularly known as ‘Cashmere’, is well known for its fineness, warmth, softness, desirable aesthetic value, elegance and timelessness in fashion. It is most luxurious, softer and warmer than superfine merino wool. The word pashmina is originated from a word ‘pashm’ means ‘soft gold’ in local language, and ‘wool’ in Persian language. India produces about 40-50 tonnes of fibre annually....

Emerging system-area networks provide a variety of features that can dramatically reduce network communication overhead. Such features include reduced latency, protected remote memory access, cheap broadcast, and ordering guarantees. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of these features on the implementation of Software Distributed Shared Memory (SDSM), and on the Cashmere system in particula...

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One hundred eighty (180) skin samples were taken from the mid-right side of 30 Raieni Cashmere goat male and female kids at 1 mo, 1.5 mo, 2 mo, 2.5 mo, 3 mo and 3.5 mo of age. Numbers of primary and secondary skin follicles were determined for each sample. Numbers of secondary follicles increased until 3 mo of age, but numbers of primary follicles did not change after birth of the kids. The ski...

This paper describes a novel technique (deviation mapping) that generates images with artistic appearances, e.g. spray painted wall, embossment, cashmere painting, etc. Our technique employs a deviation map constructed from a single background image in the image generation process. Instead of recovering the exact geometry from the background image, the deviation map can be regarded as a virtual...