The optical properties of transparent nanocrystalline zirconia produced using a current activated method were characterized over the entire visible spectrum. The resolutions of the samples were characterized using standard resolution targets. All of the samples produced were found to have as high a resolution as detectable from the test, i.e., they are transparent not translucent. Transmission,...

In this paper, the effect of microstructure on the thermal conductivity of plasma-sprayed Y2O3 stabilized ZrO2 (YSZ) thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) is investigated. Nine freestanding samples deposited on aluminum-base superalloy are studied. Cross-section morphology such as pores, cracks, m-phase content, grain boundary density of the coated samples are examined by scanning electron microscopy...

The relationship between the number of hidden nodes in a neural network, the complexity of a multiclass discrimination problem, and the number of samples needed for effect learning are discussed. Bounds for the number of samples needed for effect learning are given. It is shown that Omega(min (d,n) M) boundary samples are required for successful classification of M clusters of samples using a t...

Grain-boundary character distributions (GBCDs) were determined for spark plasma sintered Yand La-doped aluminas prepared at temperatures between 1450°C and 1600°C. La doping leads to grain boundaries that adopt (0001) orientations 3.7 times more frequently than expected in a random distribution, whereas the Y-doped microstructures are more equiaxed. At 1500°C, some of the boundaries in the Y-do...

in this paper, two inverse problems of stephen kind with local (dirichlet) boundary conditions are investigated. in the first problem only a part of boundary is unknown and in the second problem, the whole of boundary is unknown. for the both of problems, at first, analytic expressions for unknown boundary are presented, then by using these analytic expressions for unknown boundaries and bounda...

[1] Time domain boundary integrals are used to impose global transparent boundary conditions in two-dimensional finite difference time domain solvers. Augmenting classical methods for imposing these conditions with the multilevel plane wave time domain scheme reduces the computational cost of enforcing a global transparent boundary condition from O(~ N 2 ~ N 2 ) to O(~ N~ N log ~ N log ~ N); he...

In the inspection of treated water samples under microscope, knowing the average number of parasite (oo)cysts like Giardia and Cryptosporidium that exist in the samples is crucial as it tells whether the water is safe for consumption. Here, we introduce a new approach using a bidirectional contour tracing technique to segment and enumerate overlapping Cryptosporidium and Giardia (oo)cysts in mi...

Feature subset selection is an essential preprocessing task in data mining. This paper presents a new method called Extended Fuzzy Relative Information Measure for Boundary Samples (EFRIMBS) for dealing with supervised feature subset selection. The proposed algorithm uses boundary samples instead of full set of samples. First, Discretization algorithms such as K-Means, Fuzzy C Means and Median ...

In this paper we describe and analyze some modified boundary element methods to solve exterior boundary value problems for the Helmholtz equation with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The proposed approach avoids spurious modes even in the case of Lipschitz boundaries. Moreover, the regularisation is done based on boundary integral operators which are already available in standa...