Since solid-phase and liquid-phase microextraction (SPME and LPME) were introduced, as effective solvent-free methods, many efforts have been made to improve their modes and applications. However, due to limitations with sensitivity and efficiency, researchers have focused on improving the performance of their basic primary modes. In this way, in recent years, different methods such as ultrason...

Despite the growing numbers and diversity of electronic documents, the ways in which they are cataloged and retrieved remain largely unchanged. Storing a document requires classifying it, usually into a hierarchic file system. Such classification schemes aren’t easy to use, causing undue cognitive loads. The shortcomings of current approaches are mostly felt when retrieving documents. Indeed, h...

In multi-atlas based image segmentation, multiple atlases with label maps are propagated to the query image, and fused into the segmentation result. Voting rule is commonly used classifier fusion method to produce the consensus map. Local weighted voting (LWV) is another method which combines the propagated atlases weighted by local image similarity. When LWV is used, we found that the segmenta...

This paper presents the magnetoelectric (ME) effect in trilayered Ni/PZT/Ni composites which is related to their size and shape. The ME composites with the same interfacial areas but different geometrical shapes have different ME voltage coefficients. Longitudinal resonant modes in the rectangular and triangular trilayered ME composites were studied. One should choose optimized size, shape and ...

Acknowledgements I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Alfio Quarteroni, who gave me the possibility to work within the Chair of Modeling and Scientific Computing (CMCS) to my Master Project, and to Luca Dedè, who was very supportive during these months and always available to provide valuable advice and ideas. My thanks go to everyone in the CMCS group, in particular to Andrea and ...

Oncology planning software. I want to thank my parents for their faith in me and for all they did to support me for my higher studies. Their wisdom and love has always been the driving force behind my achievements. I also want to thank my fiancé, Sachin Deshmukh, for his motivation and for always being there for me. I also thank my friend Jayeeta and all my other friends for making me feel that...