Contemporary software engineering practice overemphasizes the distinction of software design from software implementation, and designer (“software architect”) from implementer (“computer programmer”). In this contemporary meme, software architects are concerned with large-grained system structures, the quality attributes that arise from these structures (security, availability, performance, etc...

During the fusion of rodent embryo palatal shelves, the cells of the outer epithelial layer slough off, allowing the cells of the medial edge basal layer to form a midline seam that undergoes epithelial-mesenchymal transformation, as judged by electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry. In this study, we analyze the fate of the transformed cells using a lipid soluble dye to label the medial e...

The effect of inclination of the exciting coil in electromagnetic-thermal non-destructive inspection of conductive plates is investigated numerically. Coils of finite height and planar coils, with circular or square section, are considered in various configurations. The heating of the plate is most effective when the coil inclination is 0 o or 90 o and less effective for intermediate angles of ...

According to the present situations that the construction amount of the gas drainage boreholes in mining seam is large and the gas drainage effect in low permeability coal seams doesn’t yield perfect, the hydraulic reaming technology in mining seam is proposed to increase the gas drainage efficiency. Through the gas flow method, the effective influence radius of hydraulic reaming is determined....

Epithelial-mesenchymal transformation (EMT) is the key mechanism for fusion and confluence of the rodent palate. During this process, medial edge epithelia (MEE) form a midline seam that subsequently transforms to mesenchymal cells. We studied syndecan-1 and E-cadherin, two molecules which have been shown to promote the epithelial phenotype, to determine their fate during palatal EMT. We found ...

As a last step in an orthophoto production process, called mosaicking, neighboring and partly overlapping images of a scene are merged to one image. This should be done in a way that the transition from one to the next image cannot be seen. The production line of orthophotos consists of several steps, each of which can introduce differences in overlapping orthophotos. For mosaicking these ortho...

Recent research has explored the principles of service system viability based on systems inquiry invoking perspectives from Systems Theory and Cybernetics in particular Stafford Beer’s viable systems model (VSM). However based on Banathy and Jenlink (2004), Systems inquiry encompasses more than just Systems Theory and includes domains such as Systems Methodology and Systems Philosophy. Building...

Steganalysis and forgery detection in image forensics are generally investigated separately. We have designed a method targeting the detection of both steganography and seam-carved forgery in JPEG images. We analyze the neighboring joint density of the DCT coefficients, and reveal the difference between untouched image and the modified version. In realistic detection, untouched image and the mo...

Images although being one of the key elements in digital media typically remain rigid in size and cannot deform to fit different layouts automatically. Standard image scaling is not sufficient since it is oblivious to the image content and typically can be applied only uniformly. Cropping is limited since it can only remove pixels from the image periphery. More effective resizing can only be ac...