This paper reports on a new technique for unconstrained license plate detection in a surveillance context. The proposed algorithm quickly finds license plates by performing the following steps. The image is first preprocessed to extract the edges; opening with linear structuring elements ensures that plate sides are enhanced. Multiple scans using the Hausdorff distance are made through the vert...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to examine whether plantar flexor static stretching and dynamic stretching using an Aero-Step results in changes in foot pressure during gait in healthy adults. [Subjects] Eighteen normal adults were randomly allocated to either a dynamic stretching using an Aero-Step group (DSUAS) group (n = 8) or a static stretching (SS) group (n = 10). [Methods] The DSUAS ...

sahand volcanic-sub-volcanic dome, along with several other magmatic domes in northwest iran and the southern part of tabriz fault show adakitic geochemical characteristics. sahand dome has mainly dacitic composition. the sio2 content and mg number of sahand dome range from 64 to 73 wt% and 27 to 57 respectively. sahand dome can be classified as high silica adakitic (hsa) type. the rocks studie...

The goal of this research was to find the implant which would provide a better possibility of the fractured osteoporotic bone weight bearing after trochanteric fracture fixation. The authors constructed a new implant based on the conventional condylar plate, as part of a stabile triangular system. Because of the special oblique form of the screw which absolutely stabilizes vertical and horizont...

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is an image-processing technology and an important field of research that identifies vehicles by their number plates in which the number plate information is extracted from vehicle's image or from sequence of images without direct human intervention. ANPR consists of 4 phases: Preprocessing, number plate extraction, character segmentation, character rec...

The elastic energy functional of a thin elastic rod or sheet is generalized to the case of an M -dimensional manifold in N -dimensional space. We derive potentials for the stress field and curvatures and find the generalized von Karman equations for a manifold in elastic equilibrium. We perform a scaling analysis of an M − 1 dimensional ridge in an M = N − 1 dimensional manifold. A ridge of lin...