background and aims: one of the most common approach to understanding spatial and temporal trends of event data is to break it up into a series of time snapshots. therefore space-time cube method applied in order to portray the likely trend in occurrence of the pulmonary tuberculosis (tb) cases. methods: in this study, information of all patients with pulmonary tb recorded in surveillance syste...

Rotational atherectomy is a widely used modality in percutaneous coronary revascularization, especially for heavily calcified coronary arteries [1–5]. Due to the unique mechanism of rotational atherectomy, there have been reports of unusual complications, including fracture of coronary wire, guidewire bias, coronary spasm leading to myocardial infarction, and fracture of the drive shaft causing...

In this appendix we shall find all the irreducible representations of the symmetry groups of the Platonic solids, by a mixture of geometric methods and algebraic methods similar to those used in Chapters 5 for representations of the classical groups. We shall also see how these representations occur naturally in the harmonic analysis of functions on the Platonic solids. This is a discrete analo...

We have developed a wide-field time-resolved imaging system to image quantitatively both the fluorescence lifetime and the rotational correlation time of a fluorophore. Using a polarization-resolved imager, we simultaneously image orthogonal polarization components of the fluorescence emission onto a time-gated intensified CCD. We demonstrate imaging of solvent viscosity variations through the ...

This paper presents an improved ESOP-based reversible logic synthesis which utilizes cubes shared by multiple outputs and ensures that the implementation of each cube requires just one Toffoli gate. Thus it has the potential of minimizing the gate count and quantum cost. Experimental results show that this technique can reduce the quantum cost up to 75%, compared to the existing algorithm.

This paper presents a method for using objects in a scene to define the reference frame for 3-D reconstruction. We first present a simple technique to calibrate an orthographic projection from four non-coplanar reference points. We then show how the observation of two additional known scene points can provide the complete perspective projection. When used with a known object, this technique per...

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a mathematically robust multivariate data approach that sometimes used for surface oil slick signature classification. Our goal to rank the effectiveness of LDAs differentiate spills from look-alike slicks. We explored multiple combinations (i) variables (size information, Meteorological-Oceanographic (metoc), geo-location parameters) and (ii) transformatio...