one of the most important methods to produce sponge iron is coal based reduction of iron ore. direct reduction methods based on coal are being improved due to the abundance of coal sources and its lower cost in comparison with natural gas. volatile materials in coal play an important role in the reduction of iron oxides. in this study, noncoking coal with high volatile materials from iran and c...

We address a question on the effect of common stochastic inputs on the correlation of the spikes trains of two neurons when they are possibly nonidentical and are coupled through direct connections. We show that the change in the correlation of low amplitude stochastic inputs can be better detected when the neurons are connected by direct excitatory couplings. Depending on whether the neurons a...

This paper describes a novel inpainting algorithm that is capable of filling in holes in overlapping texture and cartoon image layers. This algorithm is a direct extension of a recently developed sparse-representation-based image decomposition method called MCA (morphological component analysis), designed for the separation of linearly combined texture and cartoon layers in a given image (see [...