PURPOSE The mean intercept length tensor is the most used technique to estimate microstructure orientation and anisotropy of trabecular bone. This paper proposes an efficient extension of this technique to gray-scale images based on a closed formulation of the mean intercept length tensor and a generalization using different angular convolution kernels. METHODS First, the extended Gaussian im...

In this paper, the author presented a modified Chen and Chung’s model considering that the process mean may not be equal to the target value when the process is in the in-control state. Taguchi’s asymmetric quadratic quality loss function will be applied in evaluating the product quality. Subsequently, the modified economic manufacturing quantity (EMQ) model based on modified the Chen and Chung...

The Mean Intercept Length tensor is one of the most used techniques to estimate microstructure orientation and anisotropy of materials from 2D or 3D binary images. This paper proposes an efficient implementation of this technique. First, the Extended Gaussian Image is computed for the binary image. Second, the intercepts are computed for all possible orientations through an angular convolution....

A field experiment was conducted during Rabi of 2022-23 at the Crop Research Farm, Department Agronomy, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University Agriculture, Technology And Sciences, Prayagraj (U.P.) India. To study Response potassium and spacing on growth yield Mustard. The treatments consist 30,40,50 kg/ha 25 x 10 cm, 35 45 cm. There were 9 each replicated thrice. soil experi...

How blood was able to reach the heads of the long-necked sauropod dinosaurs has long been a matter of debate and several hypotheses have been presented. For example, it has been proposed that sauropods had exceptionally large hearts, multiple 'normal' sized hearts spaced at regular intervals up the neck or held their necks horizontal, or that the siphon effect was in operation. By means of an e...

Consider the problem of estimating the mean of a single normal random variable when the mean is known to be bounded. We establish the minimax aane estimator under zero-one loss and discuss minimal xed-length aane conndence intervals. Moreover, the minimal length of arbitrary xed-size conndence intervals is described and the maximal loss of eeciency caused by the restriction to aane estimators i...

Carob leaves (Ceratonia siliqua L.), grown in Egypt have not fully identified in Egypt. Therefore, eight major phenolic compounds were isolated from the aqueous ethanolic extract using different methods of chromatography; gallic acid, quercetin 3-O-4C1-B-D-glucoside (Isoquercetin), Kaempferol 3-O1C4-"-Lrhamnoside (Afzelin), Quercetin 3-O-1C4-"-L-rhamnoside (Quercitrin), 1,2,6 tri-O-galloyl-B-D4...

In this study, Ceratonia siliqua L. carob seeds harvested from both wild and cultivated genotypes in Turkey were subjected to mechanical scarification, soaking in hot water and dipping in sulfuric acid. All treatments hastened seed germination and seedling growth of carob compared to control. The germination percentage of control seeds were similar for both wild and cultivated genotypes (13%) a...

Telomere regression has been shown to be associated with several complex disorders like diabetes mellitus, cancer, cataract etc. Diabetic retinopathy develops as a complication of chronic hyperglycemia leading to increased oxidative stress that may potentially lead to shortening of telomeres. We sought to determine whether there is any association between telomere mean length (TML) of periphera...

THERE IS CURRENTLY a great deal of interest in mechanisms underlying COPD. Although COPD is not a term commonly applied to mouse models, in mice there has been an increasing number of studies in recent years on one of the hallmarks of COPD, i.e., emphysema. Emphysema is characterized by destruction of alveolar walls, with concomitant loss of alveolar surface area, enlargement of airspaces, and ...