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...

Stein’s formula states that a random variable of the form z⊤f(z)−divf(z) is mean-zero for all functions f with integrable gradient. Here, divf divergence function and z standard normal vector. This paper aims to propose second-order Stein characterize variance such variables f(z) square gradient, demonstrate usefulness this in various applications. In Gaussian sequence model, remarkable consequ...

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...

23 In the present study, two LCYb genes (CitLCYb1 and CitLCYb2) were 24 isolated from Satsuma mandarin (Citrus unshiu Marc.), Valencia orange (Citrus 25 sinensis Osbeck) and Lisbon lemon (Citrus limon Burm.f.) and their functions 26 were analyzed by the color complementation assay in lycopene-accumulating E. 27 coli cells. The results showed that CitLCYb1 and CitLCYb2 shared high identity 28 at...

When a computer takes forever to load a website, it may be annoying, but it is nothing more serious than that. If, however, the electronics in a car or a plane don’t process commands exactly when they are supposed to, the consequences can be fatal. Björn Brandenburg and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken study how to construct real-time s...