Bidirectional reflectance distribution function provides a physical description of material appearance. In particular, it helps to describe the gloss. We suggest that, at least, one attribute of gloss: Contrast gloss (luster), may be described directly from an image by using local image contrast measurement. In this article, we investigate the relation between image contrast measures, gloss per...

The article examines Brazilian refined earthenwares known as faiança fina (fine faience) and relates ideas about its production to the contextual backdrop of hygienist discourses in the city of São Paulo in the early twentieth century. Based on an analysis of glaze components, moisture expansion processes, and technological aspects of the production of earthenware recovered from the Petybon arc...

Purpose: Inability of ceramists to formulate glazes locally and the cost importing had resulted closure many cottage ceramic industries in Nigeria. The study, physicochemical characterization cullet glaze, was conducted with aim recycling for glazing earthen wares intention conduct elemental analysis waste glass glaze recipes, determine its artistic usage, lessen from environment harness chemic...

We report the unusual discovery of a natural iron "glaze" composed of fused particles of meteoritic origin, concentrated entirely within a crop formation in England, appearing shortly after the intense Perseid meteor shower in August, 1993. Physical and chemical characteristics as well as spatial distributions indicated reheating to a semi-molten state at the time of crop impact, suggesting inv...

Clinical Report Trisomy 17p10-p12 Due to Mosaic Supernumerary Marker Chromosome: Delineation of Molecular Breakpoints and Clinical Phenotype, and Comparison to Other Proximal 17p Segmental Duplications Svetlana A. Yatsenko, Diane Treadwell-Deering, Kevin Krull, Richard Alan Lewis, Daniel Glaze, Pawel Stankiewicz, James R. Lupski, and Lorraine Potocki* Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, B...