abstract currently in iran, some manual methods are used for measuring spray droplet size which is very laborious and time consuming. in this paper, a software is presented based on image processing techniques, which is suitable for small object detection purpose that can be used in blob analysis of sprayer calibration and other similar applications. the algorithms have been implemented and ada...

We study the general phenomenon of randomorganization using a vortex system.When a periodic shearwith a small shear amplitude dinp is applied tomany-particle (vortex) assemblies with a random distribution, the particles (vortices) gradually self-organize to avoid future collisions and transform into an organized configuration. This is detected from the time-evolution of the voltageV t ( ) (aver...

As a simplified model of randomly pinned vortex lattices or charge-density waves, we study the random-field XY model on square (d = 2) and simple cubic (d = 3) lattices. We verify in Monte Carlo simulations, that the average spacing between topological defects (vortices) diverges more strongly than the Imry-Ma pinning length as the random field strength, H, is reduced. We suggest that for d = 3...

We present a systematic study of the topology of the vortex solid phase in superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 samples with low doses of columnar defects. A new state of vortex matter imposed by the presence of geometrical contours associated with the random distribution of columns is found. The results show that the first-order liquid-solid transition in this vortex matter does not require a structu...

Cytochrome oxidase (CO) dense blobs in primate striate cortex provide a striking example of parallel processing of visual information. The level of isolation of the blobs from the surrounding interblob tissue was investigated in the present study by combining CO staining with Golgi impregnation of dendritic arbors in the same tissue sections. The data are based on material from two marmoset and...

In this paper, we introduce a three-dimensional numerical method for computing the wake behind a flat plate advancing perpendicular to the flow. Our numerical method is inspired by the panel method of J. Katz and A. Plotkin [J. Katz and A. Plotkin, Low-speed Aerodynamics, 2001] and the 2D vortex blob method of Krasny [R. Krasny, Lectures in Appl. Math., 28 (1991), pp. 385–402]. The accuracy of ...

We study the diffusive motion of a (non-selfinteracting) chain through a quenched random environment, constructed such that it influences only the local dynamics but not the equilibrium configuration of the chain. Our Monte Carlo results show that this type of disorder, which we call kinematic, does not ruin reptation. This is in sharp contrast to disorder including also entropic traps and it s...

Concurrent Big Data applications often require high-performance storage, as well as ACID (Atomicity, Consis­ tency, Isolation, Durability) transaction support. Although blobs (binary large objects) are an increasingly popular storage model for such applications, state-of-the-art blob storage systems offer no transaction semantics. This demands users to coordinate data access carefully in order ...