A novel double-higher-order entire-domain volume integral equation (VIE) technique for efficient analysis of electromagnetic structures with continuously inhomogeneous dielectric materials is presented. The technique takes advantage of large curved hexahedral discretization elements—enabled by double-higher-order modeling (higher-order modeling of both the geometry and the current)—in applicati...

For randomly censored data, the authors propose a general class of semiparametricmedian residual life models. They incorporate covariates in a generalized linear form while leaving the baseline median residual life function completely unspecified. Despite the non-identifiability of the survival function for a given median residual life function, a simple and natural procedure is proposed to est...

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether noticing through input enhancement had any impact on the acquisition of English conditional sentences in Iranian EFL learners. Two intact classes with 26 female students in each were chosen. A proficiency test administered at the commencement of the study showed that the two groups were homogeneous in terms of their language proficiency....

the effect of single and double-layer anti-reflective coatings on efficiency enhancement of silicon solar cells was investigated. the reflectance of different anti-reflection structures were calculated using the transfer matrix method and then to predict the performance of solar cells coated by these structures, the weighted average reflectance curves were used as an input of a pc1d simulation....

Many digital contrast enhancement techniques have been used in order to optimize the visual quality of the image for human or machine vision through gray-scale or histogram modifications [l-4]. All these methods try to enhance the contrast of the input image without measuring the contrast itself. Moreover there is no universal criterion or unifying theory specifying the validity of a given enha...

PURPOSE To determine whether image enhancement improves visual search performance and whether enhanced images were also preferred by subjects with vision impairment. METHODS Subjects (n = 24) with vision impairment (vision: 20/52 to 20/240) completed visual search and preference tasks for 150 static images that were enhanced to increase object contours' visual saliency. Subjects were divided ...

In the past few years the resolution of images increased and the requirement for large storage space and fast process, directly in the compressed domain, becomes essential. Fuzzy rule-based contrast enhancement, is a well-known rather simple approach with good visual results. As any fuzzy algorithm, it is by default nonlinear, thus not straightforward applicable on the JPEG bitstream data – zig...

An integrated system approach was developed to address the problem of distant speech acquisition in multi-party meetings, using multiple microphones and cameras. Microphone array processing techniques have presented a potential alternative to close-talking microphones by providing speech enhancement through spatial filtering and directional discrimination. These techniques relied on accurate sp...

Since the resolution of images increased in the past few years, the requirements for large storage space and fast process, directly in the compressed domain, becomes essential. Fuzzy rule-based contrast enhancement, is a well-known rather simple approach with good visual results, but as any fuzzy algorithm, it is by default nonlinear, thus not straightforward applicable on the JPEG bitstream (z...

Images with high resolution give better results for image processing applications. Image resolution enhancement is the process of manipulating an image so that resultant image is more suitable for specific application such as medical, agricultural, satellite image processing. This paper is based on image resolution enhancement by combination of SWT & DWT .In DWT main loss is on high frequency c...