A patterned coreeshell tin (Sn) nanorod anode is fabricated by pulse electrodeposition of Sn onto a selfassembled Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) structured nickel current collector. Pulse electrodeposition onto the virus assembled 3D electrode surfaces produces homogenous Sn coatings with significant void space to accommodate the large volume change associated with Sn lithiation. The TMV enabled 3D...

A numerical study of 3D electrokinetic flows through micromixers was performed. The micromixers considered here consisted of heterogeneous rectangular microchannels with prescribed patterns of zeta-potential at their walls. Numerical simulation of electroosmotic flows within heterogeneous channels requires solution of the Navier-Stokes, Ernest-Plank and species concentration equations. It is kn...

A well-known issue of local (adaptive) histogram equalization (LHE) is over-enhancement (i.e., generation of spurious details) in homogenous areas of the image. In this paper, we show that the LHE problem has many solutions due to the ambiguity in ranking pixels with the same intensity. The LHE solution space can be searched for the images having the maximum PSNR or structural similarity (SSIM)...

This paper addresses the issue of motion-based description of video contents within the framework of the future MPEG-7 standard. A family of velocity-based similarity measures (VSM) is defined, involving a generic distance function which can be specified according to the query type. VSM computation complexity, spatio-temporal alignment problems and translational and homogenous motion component ...

Let r be a commutative field (finite or infinite) and let P = P(n, r) be the n-dimensional projective space over ZY Then every point x E P can be expressed by n + 1 homogene coordinates x = (x,,..., x,), not all zero and (x0,..., x,) = @x0,..., Ax,) for OflET. By a hypersurface of degree d we simply mean the set of all points x E P with p(x) = 0, where p(x) is a homogenous polynomial of degree ...

Let X be a finite graph, with edges colored and possibly oriented, such that an oriented edge and a non-oriented one cannot have same color. The universal Hopf algebra H(X) coacting on X is in general non commutative, infinite dimensional, bigger than the algebra of functions on the usual symmetry group G(X). For a graph with no edges Tannakian duality makes H(X) correspond to a Temperley-Lieb ...

We show that there is a unique correlated equilibrium, identical to the unique Nash equilibrium, in the classic Bertrand oligopoly model with homogenous goods and identical marginal costs. This provides a theoretical underpinning for the socalled “Bertrand paradox” as well as its most general formulation to date. Our proof generalizes to asymmetric marginal costs and arbitrarily many players in...

P. Mason McClatchey, Michal Schafer, Kendall S. Hunter, Jane E. B. Reusch 5 6 7 Division of Endocrinology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, 8 Colorado USA 9 10 Department of Medicine, Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, Colorado USA 11 12 Department of Bioengineering, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, 13 Colorado USA 14 15 Division of Cardiology, Depar...