Controlling the final shape resulting from evaporation of pinned droplets containing polymer, is important in the fabrication of P-OLED displays by inkjet printing. Typically, a coffee ring shape arises, due to the pinning and associated outward capillary flow. For operational reasons, this is undesirable – a flat topography is required. The aim of this work is to understand the important group...

We present an approach to function-based object recognition that reasons about the functionality of an object’s intuitive parts. We extend the popular “recognition b y parts” shape recognition framework to support “recognition by functional parts”, b y combining a set of functional primitives and their relations with a sel of abstract volumetric shape primitives and their relations. Previous ap...

Voice hoarseness can have various reasons, one of them is a change of the vocal fold mucus. This change can be examined with micro endoscopes. Cell detection in these images is a difficult task, due to bad image quality, caused by noise and illumination variations. In previous works, it was observed that the repetitive pattern of the cell walls cause an elliptical shape in the Fourier domain [1...

This paper describes an application of data mining, namely classification, with respect to 3-D surface analysis. More specifically in the context of sheet metal forming, especially Asymmetric Incremental Sheet Forming (AISF). The issue with sheet metal forming processes is that their application results in springback, which means that the resulting shape is not necessarily the desired shape. Er...

Introduction: Meatal stenosis is a recognized complication of circumcision done during nappy aged boys as a late presentation. The objective of this study was to describe the incidence of documented meatal stenosis in boys circumcised in infantile period. Method: Meatal stenosis was defined as change in appearance of the delicate lips of the urinary meatus, with loss of ellipticated shape to a...

Despite the large amount of work devoted in recent years to the problem of non-rigid shape matching, practical methods that can successfully be used for arbitrary pairs of shapes remain elusive. In this paper, we study the hardness of the problem of shape matching, and introduce the notion of the shape condition number, which captures the intuition that some shapes are inherently more difficult...

Much of the recent literature on reasons is focused on a common range of issues, concerning, for example, the relation between reasons and motivation, desires, and values, the issue of internalism versus externalism in the theory of reasons, or the objectivity or reasons. This paper is concerned with a different, and orthogonal, set of questions: What are reasons, and how do they support action...

Background and Purpose—Stroke is an important contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality, but there are no recent data on trends in pregnancy-related hospitalizations that have involved a stroke. This report describes stroke hospitalizations for women in the antenatal, delivery, and postpartum periods from 1994 to 1995 to 2006 to 2007 and analyzes the changes in these hospitalizations over...

I discuss two arguments against the view that reasons are propositions. I consider responses to each argument, including recent responses due to Mark Schroeder, and suggest further responses of my own. In each case, the discussion proceeds by comparing reasons to answers and goals.

Ї R is a real time visual surveillance system for detecting and tracking multiple people and monitoring their activities in an outdoor environment. It operates on monocular gray-scale video imagery, or on video imagery from an infrared camera. ‡ R employs a combination of shape analysis and tracking to locate people and their parts (head, hands, feet, torso) and to create models of people's ap...