The aim of the study was to determine reliability and factorial validity of six basketball shooting accuracy tests. Fifty five healthy basketball players (age 19.1 ± 3.1 years; body mass 83.4 ± 12.5 kg; height 189.1 ± 8.2 cm; body fat percentage 13.1 ± 4.1) from four Bosnian basketball teams participated in this research. The applied tests have been constructed in order to measure basketball sh...

Rigorous research has been done on optical character recognition (OCR) and a large number of articles have been published on this topic during the last few decades. OCR plays a vital role in Digital Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. Numerous work has stated for Roman, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic scripts. There is no convenient work done on Indian script recognition. In India, more than...

This paper presents a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to identify the script of handwritten words of Roman, Devanagari, Kannada and Telugu scripts. It emphasizes the significance of directional energies for identification of script of the word. It is robust to varied image sizes and different styles of writing. A GMM is modeled using a set of six novel features derived from directional energy dist...

The use of lead bullets and shot at shooting ranges is under increasing scrutiny as a potentially significant source of Pb pollution. This study assessed Pb contamination in the soils of two shooting ranges (TRR and MPR) in Florida. Soil samples were collected from the two ranges and analyzed for total Pb to determine Pb contamination. Selected spent bullets and berm soil samples were mineralog...

Received Jun 12, 2016 Revised Aug 18, 2016 Accepted Aug 29, 2016 Script writing art in the lives of Balinese people has a very important function, particularly in terms of writing a sacred script such as writing an inscription on copper plate, bronze, silver, and gold, by using a penknife which required a persistence, patience, skill and experience by itself, since not all Balinese people is ab...

Boundary value problems arise in many applications, and shooting methods are one approach to approximate the solution of such problems. A Shooting method transforms a boundary value problem into a sequence of initial value problems, and takes the advantage of the speed and adaptivity of initial value problem solvers. The implementation of continuous Runge-Kutta methods with defect control for i...

We consider the problem of ray shooting amidst spheres in 3-space: given n arbitrary (possibly intersecting) spheres in 3-space and any " > 0, we show how to preprocess the spheres in time O(n 3+"), into a data structure of size O(n 3+"), so that any ray-shooting query can be answered in time O(n "). Our result improves previous techniques (see 3, 5]), where roughly O(n 4) storage was required ...