The paper portrays comprehensive performance comparison of image classification techniques using block truncation coding (BTC) with assorted color spaces. Overall six color spaces have been explored which includes RGB color space for applying BTC to figure out the feature vector in Content Based Image Classification (CBIC) techniques. A generic database with 900 images having 100 images per cat...

Superacids, defined as acids with a Hammett acidity function H0 ≤ -12, are useful materials, but a need exists for new, designable solid state systems. Here, we report superacidity in a sulfated metal-organic framework (MOF) obtained by treating the microcrystalline form of MOF-808 [MOF-808-P: Zr6O5(OH)3(BTC)2(HCOO)5(H2O)2, BTC = 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate] with aqueous sulfuric acid to genera...

Biliary tract cancers (BTCs) are invasive carcinomas that arise from the epithelial lining of the gallbladder and bile ducts. These include intrahepatic, perihilar, and distal biliary tree cancers as well as carcinoma arising from the gallbladder. Complete surgical resection offers the only chance for cure; however, only 10% of patients present with early-stage disease and are considered surgic...

In this paper, a new scheme for designing multilevel BTC coding is proposed. Optimal quantization can be obtained by selecting the quantization threshold with an exhaustive search. However, this requires an enormous amount of computation and is, thus impractical when we consider an exhaustive search for the multilevel BTC. In order to find a better threshold so that the average mean square erro...

Bacillus subtilis lipase (BSL2) has been successfully immobilized into a Cu-BTC based hierarchically porous metal-organic framework material for the first time. The Cu-BTC hierarchically porous MOF material with large mesopore apertures is prepared conveniently by using a template-free strategy under mild conditions. The immobilized BSL2 presents high enzymatic activity and perfect reusability ...

The Block Truncation Coding (BTC) is one of the lossy image compression algorithms. In this paper, we have proposed a method called the Improved Adaptive Block Truncation Coding (IABTC) based on Adaptive Block Truncation Coding (ABTC). The feature of inter-pixel redundancy is exploited to reduce the bit-rate further by retaining the quality of the reconstructed images. The proposed method outpe...

In the present paper we study the use of vector quantization in the BTC-VQ image compression system. We propose an inverted order of proceeding in the BTC-VQ algorithm, so that the interaction of coding the bit plane and the quantization data will be taken into consideration. The quality of the image depends radically on the codebook used in VQ. The use of frequencies in the selection of the in...

Ruled surface is widely used in engineering design such as parting surface design of injection mold and checking surface design of checking fixture, which are usually generated by offsetting 3D curves. However, in 3D curve offset, there often exist break/interaction/overlapping problems which can't be solved by current CAD software automatically. This paper is targeted at developing a 3D curve ...

GRB021211 was first detected by HETE II and its early afterglow has been observed. There is a break in its afterglow light curve at about 12 minutes after the bursts, before the break the optical flux decays with a power-law index of about −1.6, while at late time the power-law slope is about −1 (Chornock et al. 2002). Here we will show that the afterglow light curve of GRB021211 can be explain...

Our study examined the mechanism of oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) at square paddle-wheel cage active site TM-BTC metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), where TM is a transition metal, Mn, Fe, or Cu. We used combination density functional theory (DFT) and microkinetic calculations to investigate this mechanism. By using small cluster for modeling structure, we successfully reproduced experimental t...