This paper describes a new framework for relational graph matching. The starting point is a recently reported Bayesian consistency measure which gauges structural differences using Hamming distance. The main contributions of the work are threefold. Firstly, we demonstrate how the discrete components of the cost function can be softened. The second contribution is to show how the softened cost f...

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to softening or breaking down of the brain-substance. In some of the cases I recorded and which terminated favourably, it is, of course, to be assumed that the congestions or other changes were of a transient and curable character. In the present paper I propose to consider the cases which may be regarded as inflammatory in their nature, but which, though exceedingly dangerous, are amenable to ...

There is a need to establish complete process characterize Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) in both strain-hardening and strain-softening tensile behavior. This should be simple easy apply so that its application direct. Therefore, this paper presents the development of obtain constitutive parameters UHPFRC. A simplified inverse analysis based on four-point bending test...

This paper is concerned with nonlinear analysis of frames composed of softening materials. The previously proposed dissipated energy maximization approach is extended to determine non-holonomic solution of such frames. The adopted assumptions are: linear kinematics, lumped plasticity with softening behavior, piecewise-linear yield functions, associate flow rule and isotropic evolution with a th...

Kiwifruit is an excellent model in which to study events in the cell wall that lead to fruit becoming soft. In kiwifruit, softening can be separated into distinct phases, with the phase associated with the most extensive and rapid loss of firmness being well-separated temporally from that associated with the respiratory climacteric and ethylene production. This contrasts with tomato, avocado, a...

In self-consistent N -body simulations of collisionless systems, gravitational interactions are modified on small scales to remove singularities and simplify the task of numerically integrating the equations of motion. This ‘gravitational softening’ is sometimes presented as an ad-hoc departure from Newtonian gravity. However, softening can also be described as a smoothing operation applied to ...

Phonon density-of-states curves were obtained from inelastic neutron scattering spectra from the three crystalline phases of uranium at temperatures from 50 to 1213 K. The alpha-phase showed an unusually large thermal softening of phonon frequencies. Analysis of the vibrational power spectrum showed that this phonon softening originates with the softening of a harmonic solid, as opposed to vibr...