Reliable depth estimation is important to many autonomous robotic systems and visual control algorithms. The Microsoft Kinect is a new, low cost game controller peripheral that calculates a depth map of the environment with good accuracy and high rate. In this paper we use the calibrated output of the depth sensor to obtain an accurate absolute depth map. Subsequently by using a Randomized Houg...

background: medicinal plant extracts such as those obtained from salvia species have a wide variety of chemical compounds in their essential oils. the repellency of a number of essential oils including those from the labiates like salvia against several insect species including the common house flies is reported. objective: the aim of this investigation was to find out the excito-repellency eff...

Using force measurements and flow visualization in a water tunnel, we consider motions of a flat plate with square edges, free to pivot about its leading edge, between incidence angle limits of ±45°. The plate’s leading edge undergoes a prescribed sinusoidal motion, either of rectilinear translation, or of pivoting or waving about a fixed point 0.5 chords away from one of the plate’s wingtips. ...

conclusion based on the results, the vectors of cutaneous leishmaniasis include of p. papatasi, p. salehi, p. sergenti and moreover the vectors of visceral leishmaniasis include of p. keshishiani and p. alexandri have been found. materials and methods sand flies were collected by using sticky traps from selected villages (outdoors as well as indoors). traps were fixed at sundown and sand flies ...

sand fly fever (sf) is an arthropod-borne viral disease, also known as “phlebotomus fever”, ‘’mosquito fever’’, three-day fever or “papatacci fever”. it is transmitted by phlebotomus papatasi , starts with acute onset of high fever, and lasts for three days. we present first cases in a different district of turkey with the clinical findings of fever, myalgia-arthralgia, headache, gastrointestin...

in the present investigation, the cyclic load deformation behaviour of soil-fly ash layered system isstudied using different intensities of failure load (i = 25%, 50% and 75%) with varying number of cycles (n =10, 50 and 100). an attempt has been made to establish the use of fly ash as a fill material for embankments ofhighways and railways and to examine the effect of cyclic loading on the lay...

Platycheirus shantar sp. n. is described and illustrated from Khabarov¬sky krai in Russia. The holotype of new species deposited the Federal Scientific Center East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Vladivostok, An annotated list 41 hover-flies discovered Bolshoi Shantar Island given; almost all them are recorded this island for first time.