An experiment was initiated on Sharpsburg silty clay loam (fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Argiudoll) in 1981 to compare the effects of fertility management and crop practices on splash detachment of soil. Experimental treatments included comparisons of crop rotations of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.| after corn (Zea mays L.) (SB), corn after soybean (C), and oat/red and yellow sweetclove...

This chapter presents a novel approach for automatic annotation and content based video retrieval by making use of the features extracted during the process of detecting commercial boundaries in a recorded Television (TV) program. In this approach, commercial boundaries are primarily detected using audio and the detected boundaries are validated and enhanced using splash screen of a program in ...

A ship or a marine structure operates in extremely harsh corrosive environment. Marine environment is more aggressive than most inland environments. Several areas of sea going vessel, typically consist of, the superstructure, boot-top area under splash zone, fully immersed areas such as ship-hull. It is well known now that the rate of corrosion of is generally, the highest for splash zone where...

In order to evaluate the benefits of parallel systems, it is necessary to know how real parallel programs behave. The SPLASH-2 applications provide us with a realistic workload for such systems. We have instrumented the PARMACS macros used by SPLASH-2 applications in order to study their parallel behavior, focusing on the overhead introduced by synchronization and parallelism management. The in...

The paper presents our system for generating comics from game log. In particular, comic layout is focused. In order to achieve more comic-like expressivity, we extend an existing comic layout process proposed by Shamir et al. as follows. First, tiny frames are introduced for being placed vertically in the same row. Second, splash frames taking up space of several rows are introduced for emphasi...

BACKGROUND We wanted to determine the postoperative analgesic efficacy of preincisional caudal epidural block versus instillation (splash block) following inguinal herniorrhaphy in children. METHODS THIRTY CHILDREN (AGE RANGE: 1-7 years) who were scheduled to undergo inguinal herniorrhaphy were divided into 2 groups: the caudal block group and the splash block group with 15 children in each g...

New solutions of the homogeneous wave equation of the type usually referred to as relatively undistorted waves are presented. Such solutions relate to the so-called “splash modes”, from which indeed they can be generated by applying the Laguerre polynomial operator. Accordingly, the solutions here presented resort to the relativistic Laguerre polynomials — introduced about one decade ago within...