Shrink forming prosthetic sockets from memory plastics offers several advantages over existing techniques. The manual skill requirement is reduced relative to drapeforming flat sheet while compared with the Rapidform process, the requirement for a purpose built vacuum forming machine is eliminated. Two methods for producing thermoplastic sockets from heat shrinkable preforms are described. One ...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry (InSAR), using data from the European Space Agency satellites ERS1 and ERS2, is being used to image, survey and map surface movement of the London region. Local and regional movement due to shrink and swell of the London Clay geology, tunnelling, and possibly ground water abstraction has been investigated here for the first time by InSAR. Cyclic ann...

A new method, based on the normal shrink and modified version of Katssagelous and Lay, is proposed for multiscale blind image restoration. The method deals with the noise and blur in the images. It is shown that the normal shrink gives the highest S/N (signal to noise ratio) for image denoising process. The multiscale blind image restoration is divided in two sections. The first part of this pa...

Denoising of images corrupted by Gaussian noise using wavelet transform is of great concern in the past two decades. In wavelet denoising method, detail wavelet coefficients of noisy image are thresholded using a specific thresholding function by comparing to a specific threshold value, and then applying inverse wavelet transform, results in denoised image. Recently, an effective image denoisin...

Label reduction is a technique for simplifying families of labeled transition systems by dropping distinctions between certain transition labels. While label reduction is critical to the efficient computation of merge-and-shrink heuristics, current theory only permits reducing labels in a limited number of cases. We generalize this theory so that labels can be reduced in every intermediate abst...

Abstract In this article, we introduce two notions of interpolative F -contractions with shrink map and map. We also study the existence E -fixed points by using these notations on a metric space endowed binary relation. As an application consequence main results, get some other interesting results like common fixed point result, result equipped graph, theorem for solution integral equations.

Abstract Growing application of artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering has been observed; however, its ability to predict the properties and nonlinear behaviour reactive soil is currently not well considered. Although previous studies provided linear correlations between shrink–swell index Atterberg limits, obtained model accuracy values were found unsatisfactory results. Artificia...