Search results for "BED"

Real Time Robust Embedded Face Detection Using High Level Description

2011

Face detection is a fundamental prerequisite step in the process of face recognition. It consists of automatically finding all the faces in an image despite the considerable variations of lighting, background, appearance of people, position/orientation of faces, and their sizes. This type of object detection has the distinction of having a very large intra-class, making it a particularly difficult problem to solve, especially when one wishes to achieve real time processing. A human being has a great ability to analyze images. He can extract the information about it and focus only on areas of interest (the phenomenon of attention). Thereafter he can detect faces in an extremely reliable way.…

L-Band Vegetation optical depth and effective scattering albedo estimation from SMAP

2017

Abstract Over land the vegetation canopy affects the microwave brightness temperature by emission, scattering and attenuation of surface soil emission. Attenuation, as represented by vegetation optical depth (VOD), is a potentially useful ecological indicator. The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission carries significant potential for VOD estimates because of its radio frequency interference mitigation efforts and because the L-band signal penetrates deeper into the vegetation canopy than the higher frequency bands used for many previous VOD retrievals. In this study, we apply the multi-temporal dual-channel retrieval algorithm (MT-DCA) to derive global VOD, soil moisture, and ef…

Towards controlling PCDD/F production in a multi-fuel fired BFB boiler using two sulfur addition strategies. Part II: Thermodynamic analysis

2014

Abstract A staged equilibrium process model was developed for a bubbling fluidized bed boiler firing SRF, bark and sludge. The model was used to study the influence of sulfur addition strategies (S-pellet additive and peat co-firing) on the behavior of copper, bromine, and alkalis. Aerosol samples collected from the backpass of the boiler were used to validate the chemistry predicted by the model. The model revealed that Cu existed as Cu 2 S (s3) in the reducing zone, and CuCl (g) (for all test cases) and CuO (s) (during peat co-firing) in the oxidation zones. CuBr 3(g) was also present after the introduction of tertiary air. However the model failed to predict the formation of CuSO 4 , an …

Composantes culturelles et Premières productions céramiques du Bronze ancien dans le sud-est de la France

2012

The collective research project "Cultural components of the first pottery productions of the Early Bronze Age in Southeast France" derives from renewal of documentation on the Early Bronze Age in the southeast Rhodanian region and new approaches to the Bell Beaker period, particularly in the southern part of Southeast France. In 1998, the Riva del Garda conference constituted a high point in Bell Beaker research at a European scale, of which the consequences and questions motivated the collective project for an overview of the transition from the end of the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in a large southeastern quarter of France. In these regions, issues relating to the future of Bell Be…

On the hyperporous non-linear elasticity model for fusion-relevant pebble beds

2010

Abstract Packed pebble beds are particular granular systems composed of a large amount of small particles, arranged in irregular lattices and surrounded by a gas filling interstitial spaces. Due to their heterogeneous structure, pebble beds have non-linear and strongly coupled thermal and mechanical behaviours whose constitutive models seem limited, being not suitable for fusion-relevant design-oriented applications. Within the framework of the modelling activities promoted for the lithiated ceramics and beryllium pebble beds foreseen in the Helium-Cooled Pebble Bed breeding blanket concept of DEMO, at the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the University of Palermo (DIN) a thermo-mechani…

Combinatorial Transforms : Application in Lossless Image Compression

2011

International audience; Common image compression standards are usually based on frequency transform such as Discrete Cosine Transform. We present a different approach for lossless image compression, which is based on a combinatorial transform. The main transform is Burrows Wheeler Transform (BWT) which tends to reorder symbols according to their following context. It becomes one of promising compression approach based on context modeling. BWT was initially applied for text compression software such as BZIP2 nevertheless it has been recently applied to the image compression field. Compression schemes based on the Burrows Wheeler Transform have been usually lossless; therefore we implement th…

CFD prediction of bubbles local gas hold-up in 2-dimensional gas-solid fluidized beds

2008

Low‐cost, High‐Capability, Embedded Systems for CNC Education and Research

2015

Teaching of CNC and CAD/CAM technologies has recently taken a great importance, due to their development, to the great number of solutions available on the market, and to the frequent updates. Nevertheless, one of the most urgent need is to improve the quality of education coping with a rapidly growing number of students. Nowadays, in comparison to the past, many Open-Source technical solutions, both hardware and software, are available to realise easily and cheaply some scaled-down prototypes of numerical control machine tools: these are able to work perfectly and can be employed as a learning method. This paper shows some past experiences regarding the development of some degree thesis wo…

On relationship types, their strength, and reward crowdfunding backer behavior

2023

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Why do results conflict regarding the prognostic value of the methylation status in colon cancers? The role of the preservation method.

2012

Abstract Background In colorectal carcinoma, extensive gene promoter hypermethylation is called the CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP). Explaining why studies on CIMP and survival yield conflicting results is essential. Most experiments to measure DNA methylation rely on the sodium bisulfite conversion of unmethylated cytosines into uracils. No study has evaluated the performance of bisulfite conversion and methylation levels from matched cryo-preserved and Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) samples using pyrosequencing. Methods Couples of matched cryo-preserved and FFPE samples from 40 colon adenocarcinomas were analyzed. Rates of bisulfite conversion and levels of methylation of …