The new generation of very high resolution sensors in airborne or satellite remote sensing open the door to countless new applications with a high societal impact. In order to bridge the gap between the potential offered by these new sensors and the needs of the end-users to actually face tomorrow’s challenges, advanced image processing methods need to be designed. In this paper we discuss two ...

Tests of ultra-low sulfur diesel blended with soy-biodiesel at 5% and 20% were conducted using a 2002 model year Cummins ISB engine (with exhaust gas recirculation) that had been retrofitted with a passively regenerated catalyzed diesel particulate filter (DPF). Results show that on average, the DPF balance point temperature (BPT) is 45°C and 112°C lower for B20 blends and neat biodiesel, respe...

Segmentation and classification are prolific research topics in the image processing community, which have been more and more used in the context of analysis of cementitious materials, on images acquired with Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) . Indeed, there is a need to be able to detect and to quantify the materials present in a cement paste in order to follow the chemical reactions occurri...

We have performed the leading order perturbative calculation to obtain equation of state (EoS) strange quark matter (SQM) at zero temperature under magnetic field B = 10^18 G. The SQM comprises two massless flavors (up and down) one massive flavor(strange). Consequently, we used obtained EoS calculate maximum gravitational mass corresponding radius magnetized star (SQS). employed approaches, in...

The crystal structure of bovine pancreatic beta-trypsin (BPT) has been determined from a novel orthorhombic crystal form which contains substantially more solvent (filling 57% of the volume of the unit cell) than previously determined orthorhombic (44%) and trigonal (37%) BPT structures. The native and benzamidine-inhibited crystal structures of BPT in ammonium sulphate at pH 5.3 have been dete...

Leading terms of the static quark-antiquark potential in the background perturbation theory are reviewed, including perturbative, nonperturbative and interference ones. The potential is shown to describe lattice data at short quark-antiquark separations with a good accuracy. 1. The static quark-antiquark potential was calculated with high accuracy in lattice QCD some years ago [1]. It was shown...

Integration is a specific goal in several universities currently. The School of Chemical Technology in the Aalto University (formerly known as the Faculty of Chemistry and Material Sciences, Aalto University) saw the need to develop a new Degree Program of Bioproduct Technology (BPT). The new Program accepted its first students autumn term 2010. The development work has been conducted in an ext...

Polished rice is poor source of micronutrients, however wide genotypic variability exists for zinc uptake and remobilization and zinc content in brown and polished grains in rice. Two landraces (Chittimutyalu and Kala Jeera Joha) and one popular improved variety (BPT 5204) were grown under zinc sufficient soil and their analyses showed high zinc in straw of improved variety, but high zinc in po...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate bolus transit during esophageal swallow (ES) and gastroesophageal reflux (GER) events and to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of ES and GER events in a population of term and preterm newborns with symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). METHODS The study population consisted of term and preterm newborns referred...