Real time license plate detection and recognition from CCTV videos is an active research problem. Most of the existing solutions are reasonably successful and efficiently fast but most of them are effective only in controlled environments where light intensity, illumination, orientation of plate do not vary much and image resolution is not too low. Two crucial image processing steps in an LPDR ...

In this paper, the response of hybrid composite laminate plate reinforced by the smart wires (shape memory or the SMA wires) subjected to low velocity impact is studied. The smart wires are embedded within the layers of the composite laminate. The effect of the smart wires on contact force history, and deflection of these structures is investigated. The first-order shear deformation theory as w...

Mass transfer data were obtained in circular conduit using an electrochemical technique with a potassium ferri-ferro cyanide couple. In circular conduit coaxially placed entry region equilateral triangular plate was used as turbulence promoter. The study comprised of evaluation of mass transfer rates at the outer wall of the electrochemical cell. Mass transfer coefficients were evaluated from t...

The repair of large distal femoral tumor defects can be challenging for orthopedic surgeons. The combination of a double-barrel free vascularized fibular graft (DFVFG) with a locking plate is a viable option. However, the biomechanical influence of the fibular bone length on the locking plate attachment is unclear. We aimed to evaluate the stability of the distal femoral defect after reconstruc...

In the threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus model system, phenotypes are often classified into three morphs according to lateral plate number. Morph identity has been shown to be largely genetically determined, but substantial within-morph variation in plate number exists. In this study, we test whether plate number has a plastic component in response to salinity in the low-plated morp...

The subresultants play a fundamental role in elimination theory and computer algebra. Recently they have been extended to Ore polynomials. They are de ̄ned by an expression in the coe±cients of Ore polynomials. In this paper, we provide another expression for them. This expression is written in terms of the \solutions" of Ore polynomials (in \generic" case). It is a generalization of our previou...

In this work we present the model of “mobile object net systems” – an algebraic formalisation of the “nets within nets”-paradigm, which is well suited to express the dynamics of open, mobile systems, since it allows tokens to be active. The algebraic theory of “nets within nets” covers an integrated view of the two major topics concurrency and locality, which are central in the area of mobile c...

geometric and material nonlinear behavior of slender webs in i-column girders having stocky flanges under the action of combined lateral and axial loads is investigated. interaction curves corresponding to the application of compressive and shear loads at buckling and ultimate stages for both web plates and column sections are plotted. in addition, the effects of flange and web slenderness rati...

Transform faults at mid-ocean ridges--one of the most striking, yet enigmatic features of terrestrial plate tectonics--are considered to be the inherited product of preexisting fault structures. Ridge offsets along these faults therefore should remain constant with time. Here, numerical models suggest that transform faults are actively developing and result from dynamical instability of constru...