The Computational Mass Transfer (CMT) model is composed of the basic differential mass transfer equation, closed by auxiliary equations and the appropriate accompanying CFD formulation. In the present modified CMT model, the closing auxiliary equations in the c2 1c model given by Liu (2003) are further simplified for reducing the computational complication. By this model, the turbulent mass tra...

The purpose of this study was to determine if residents (n = 26) living in an Iowa long-term care facility had differences in food intake at their noon meal and body weight when served traditional tray meal service for 10 weeks compared to being served restaurant-style meal service for 10 weeks. The study also evaluated the facility’s raw food costs of the two meal service styles. Mean meal int...

Visual cryptography encodes a secret image into n shares which are distributed to n participants. Pixel Sieve method was proposed recently to encode an image into shares, but the encryption quality is poor. In this paper an improved version of pixel sieve method is proposed to achieve more security then existing pixel sieve method. Based on cross merge and key shifting schemes, the proposed met...

We describe Sieve, a prototype Java-based collaborative environment for constructing visualizations interactively. Sieve allows collaborative construction of data-flow networks from an extensible set of modules. Modules may read data from a variety of sources, filter and transform the data in various ways, and generate visualizations. Annotation tools are also provided for mark-up and documenta...

In the sieve theories of Rosser-Iwaniec and Diamond-Halberstam-Richert, the upper and lower bound sieve functions (F and f, respectively) satisfy a coupled system of diierential-diierence equations with retarded arguments. To aid in the study of these functions, Iwaniec introduced a conjugate diierence-diierential equation with an advanced argument, and gave a solution, q, which is analytic in ...

making a conservative bridge using a natural tooth pontic with mobile teeth is complicated, time-consuming and sometimes impossible with the current techniques and materials. the aim of this paper is` to describe a new method using special rigid tray technique (srtt) to deal with such difficult clinical cases.

A principal limitation in accuracy for scientific computation performed with floatingpoint arithmetic may be traced to the computation of repeated sums, such as those which arise in inner products. As previously reported, a systolic super summer is a cellular piece of hardware for the summation of floating-point numbers. The apparatus receives floating-point summands, converting them into a fix...

The amino acid composition of endosperm cavity sap and of sieve tube saps from the flag leaf, peduncle, rachis, grain pedicel, and grain were determined for wheat plants just past the mid-half of grain filling. On a mole percent basis, glutamine accounted for almost half of the amino acids in sieve tube sap from the peduncle and ear. Other protein amino acids, plug gamma-aminobutyrate, were pre...

4 Colour connected filters 11 4.1 Colour area morphology scale-spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.1.1 Colour Extrema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1.2 Distance metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.2 Convex Colour Sieve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.3 Vecto...