A CFD software was employed to analyze the characteristics of the flat round porous aerostatic bearings. The effects of gap between the bearing and the guide way and the porosity of the porous material on the load capacity of the bearing were studied. The adequacy of the simulation model and the approach was verified. From the parametric study, it is found that the depth of the flow path does n...

A method is proposed that can generate a ranked list of plausible three-dimensional hand configurations that best match an input image. Hand pose estimation is formulated as an image database indexing problem, where the closest matches for an input hand image are retrieved from a large database of synthetic hand images. In contrast to previous approaches, the system can function in the presence...

my charge, in the Sassoon Hospitals, on 5th January, 1946. On admission his temperature was 102, pulse 112, and respirations 24, and despite his long-continued pyrexia of nearly two months his physical condition struck me to be remarkably good, and his mental condition very alert. Physical examination revealed fairly good colour and nourishment, a clean and moist tongue veiy unlike the typhoid ...

In this paper we discuss a possible discrete approximation of non-metrical Minkowski distances. The existing approaches for Minkowski metrics considering distance functions based on local neighborhoods are not suitable for this task in their present form. We can overcome this difficulty with considering the minimum of such distance functions. In this way we can take full advantage of the former...

Let (W,d) be a metric space and S = {s1 . . . sk} an ordered list of subsets of W . The distance between p ∈ W and si ∈ S is d(p, si) = min{ d(p, q) : q ∈ si }. S is a resolving set forW if d(x, si) = d(y, si) for all si implies x = y. A metric basis is a resolving set of minimal cardinality, named the metric dimension of (W,d). The metric dimension has been extensively studied in the literatur...

In this paper we will introduce a new method for approximating non-metrical Minkowski distances. The existing approaches for Minkowski metrics considering distance functions based on local neighborhoods are not suitable for this task in their present form. In our approach we can overcome this difficulty with considering the minimum of such distance functions. In this way we can take full advant...