In the current age, use of natural communication in human computer interaction is a known and well installed thought. Hand gesture recognition and gesture-based applications has gained a significant amount of popularity amongst people all over the world. It has a number of applications ranging from security to entertainment. These applications generally are real time applications and need fast,...

We study the linearized Föpl – von Karman theory of a long, thin rectangular elastic membrane that is bent through an angle 2α. We prove rigorous bounds for the minimum energy of this configuration in terms of the plate thickness σ and the bending angle. We show that the minimum energy scales as σα. This scaling is in sharp contrast with previously obtained results for the linearized theory of ...

Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) restores the distribution system load voltage to a nominal balanced sinusoidal voltage, when the source voltage has distortions, sag/swell and unbalances. DVR has to inject a required amount of Volt-Amperes (VA) into the system to maintain a nominal balanced sinusoidal voltage at the load. Keeping the cost effectiveness of DVR, it is desirable to have a minimum VA...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging of isolated submicron dodecyltrichlorosilane coated silica spheres, immobilized at the liquid polystyrene- (PS-) air interface at the PS glass transition temperature, T(g), allows for determination of the contact angle θ versus particle radius R. At T(g), all θ versus R measurements are well described by the modified Young's equation for a line tension τ = ...

This article presents a distance and angle similarity measure. The integrated similarity measure takes the strengths of both the distance and direction of measured documents into account. This article analyzes the features of the similarity measure by comparing it with the traditional distance-based similarity measure and the cosine measure, providing the iso-similarity contour, investigating t...