an experimental program was conducted to determine the effects of geosynthetic reinforcement on mitigating reflection cracking in asphalt overlays. the objectives of this study were to asses the effects of geosynthetics inclusion and its placement location on the accumulation of permanent deformation. to simulate an asphalt pavement overlaid on top of a crack in a concrete or asphalt pavement, ...

Intelligent and automatic overlays for video streams know an increasing demand in broadcasting and conference systems. These overlays provide information regarding the broadcast or the conference to better engage the end users. In this paper, a platform is presented that employs Linked Data to determine the content of the overlay, based on the current context. Semantic reasoning is utilized to ...

hyperion hyperspectral data contains a very rich source of information from the earth surface that collects 242 narrow contiguous spectral bands. achieving this source of rich information is subject to the performance of suitable image processing methods on raw satellite data. satellite image processing methods can be classified into two categories of statistical-based and spectral-based. in th...

In this paper we study differences between contiguous and non-contiguous parallel task schedules. Parallel tasks can be executed on more than one processor simultaneously. In the contiguous schedules indices of the processors assigned to a task must be a sequence of consecutive numbers. In the non-contiguous schedules processor indices may be arbitrary. Nonpreemptive schedules are considered. G...

Lexical tone melodies of words and word strings in Dogon languages are overridden by syntactically conditioned word-level or broader tone overlays. In Ben Tey and other Dogon languages, certain NP-internal elements—possessors, adjectives, relative clauses, demonstratives—are controllers , imposing overlays such as {L} and {HL} on adjacent words or word strings (the targets). Other elements (non...

Oil palm is an important crop that generates high income to Malaysia. However, the oil susceptible Ganoderma infection reduces productivity of palm. Conventional ground-based disease detection laborious and costly. Therefore, airborne remote sensing technology coupled with ground provides a more effective control disease. Airborne hyperspectral utilizes narrow contiguous bands assist in disease...

A study of affine shape is needed in certain problems that arise in bioinformatics and pattern recognition. In particular affine shape analysis is useful in the analysis of 2D electrophoresis images and in the reconstruction of a larger area from a number aerial images. Two aerial images taken from different distances of a ground scene are given in Figure 1.; the problem asks to reconstruct a l...