The effectiveness of slicing in cutting soft solids (i.e., transverse motion along the blade) is natural to anyone with even slightest kitchen experience, but underlying mechanism remains intriguing. This study seeks unveil mystic role by looking into effect friction materials. With increase indentation depth, nonlinearity large deformation superficial layer diverts lateral stress from compress...

In this paper, we present a generic Optical Character Recognition system for Arabic script languages called Nabocr. Nabocr uses OCR approaches specific for Arabic script recognition. Performing recognition on Arabic script text is relatively more difficult than Latin text due to the nature of Arabic script, which is cursive and context sensitive. Moreover, Arabic script has different writing st...

The paper presents a report on the physico-thermal properties and elemental composition of pulverized palm kernel shell to enhance its use in engineering applications. Clean palm kernel shell were dried, milled and screened to obtain particles 0.23 mm mean diameter. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the physical and thermal properties of the pulverized palm kernel shell and its differentia...

The interaction between economic integration and environmental policy has become an important issue in the last few years. Despite the considerable scholarly attention this topic attracted, actual government responses in terms of environmental policy outputs remain largely untouched by both theoretical and empirical work. To fill this gap, we suggest a theory-based disaggregation of the compoun...

New generation network R&D by clean slate approach is started world wide such as GENI in US, Future Internet activities in FP7 and AKARI in Japan. Following these trends, JGN2plus, a new testbed for an advaned networking and application R&D, has been started from April 2008 by NICT. Fundamental requirement for testbed is that it should be built for a proof of concept of newly developed technoko...

We believe that the current Internet has significant deficiencies that need to be solved before it can become a unified global communication infrastructure. Further, we believe the Internet’s shortcomings will not be resolved by the conventional incremental and “backward-compatible” style of academic and industrial networking research. The proposed program will focus on unconventional, bold, an...

In most functional languages little attention has been paid to file I/O. The file system is poorly typed at best and some classes of objects, in particular functions, cannot be stored on disk at all. In this article we present a mature type system for typing files. We also discuss briefly how we plan to implement the storage of functions in files. We make use of the concept of dynamic types, as...

Micro-Doppler motion of a target is an important characteristic in high-resolution radar observation. The target feature extraction of micro motion has already been applied to many aspects of radar research. In this article, general model is established for the echo signal of a target with micro-motion. Combination of time-frequency analysis method, a method using Radon transformation to detect...