The human visual system is remarkably tolerant to degradations in image resolution: in a scene recognition task, human performance is similar whether 32 × 32 color images or multi-mega pixel images are used. With small images, even object recognition and segmentation is performed robustly by the visual system, despite the object being unrecognizable in isolation. Motivated by these observations...

We read with interest the article ‘Pancreatic Mucinous Cystic Neoplasm Size Using CT Volumetry, Spherical and ellipsoid formulas: Validation Study’ by Chalian et al. [1] published in the January 2014 edition of Journal of the Pancreas .JOP (online). We commend the authors for their valuable contributions towards establishing the accuracy and reproducibility of CT volumetry for pancreatic cysts....

The Dr. Tolstunov’s letter published in the present issue of JOP. Journal of the Pancreas [1] is very interesting, because it pointed out the controversial management approach for the branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) of the pancreas, even in high volume centers for pancreatic disease. The final questions, “Have I been correct with my decision so far in delaying the s...

Modern Java Virtual Machines (JVM) for desktop and server computers use just-in-time (JIT) compilation to increase their performance. For embedded Java processors, JIT usually is not feasable. Therefore the java bytecode needs to be optimized for a specific platform ahead-of-time. To generate optimized bytecode for the JOP Java processor several existing tools were compared. In order to impleme...

This work proposes a model for granular deformation that predicts the stress and velocity profiles in well-developed dense granular flows. Recent models for granular elasticity (Jiang and Liu 2003) and rate-sensitive plastic flow (Jop et al. 2006) are combined into one universal granular continuum law, capable of predicting flowing regions and stagnant zones simultaneously in any arbitrary 3D f...