Sensory systems are designed to extract behaviorally relevant information from the environment. In seeking to understand a sensory system, it is important to understand the environment within which it operates. In the present study, we seek to characterize the natural scenes of tactile texture perception. During tactile exploration complex high-frequency vibrations are elicited in the fingertip...

Growing evidence suggests a relationship between mammographic texture and breast cancer risk. For studies performing texture analysis on digital mammography (DM) images from various DM systems, it is important to evaluate if different systems could introduce inherent differences in the images analyzed and how to construct a methodological framework to identify and standardize such effects, if t...

to obtain an optimum formulation for stabilizers–emulsifier in ice cream, different combinations of three stabilizers, i.e. basil seed gum, guar gum, and carboxymethyl cellulose, at two concentrations of 0.15 or 0.35% with or without e471 emulsifier were studied using a simplex-centroid mixture design. the regression models for physical properties and texture smoothness of samples were also est...

in order to investigation some soil characteristics and filed age effects on flower and corm yield of saffron, an experiment was conducted as factorial based on complete randomized design with five replications in two regions of neyshabur during growing season 2009-2010. treatments were included different filed ages (2, 4 and 6 years) and two geographical regions (eshagh abad and soltan abad). ...

We present a visualization method that for three-dimensional tensor fields based on the idea of a stretched or compressed piece of fabric used as a “texture” for a two-dimensional surfaces. The texture parameters as the fabric density reflect the physical properties of the tensor field. This method is especially appropriate for the visualization of stress and strain tensor fields that play an i...

Discussion | Our study used visible rather than palpable neck texture because we found visible texture grading to be more reproducible. Consensus was obtained for all visible neck and axillary features, but Burke et al4 have noted that reproducibility of palpable texture was limited (κ≤0.68). In our study also, neck texture was determined to be the most sensitive marker: 8 patients with elevate...