This paper presents the development of a level control system using 3D machine vision techniques based on a single leveldetector sensor (Kinect), in an arrangement of three tanks. Using image processing algorithms, each one of the tanks is classified within the video sequence as well as each one of the depth measurements is averaged regarding the cross sectional area of the surface of the tanks...

Dimers of the partially fluorinated amphiphile 1-(perfluorobutyl)undecanoic acid, CF(3)(CF(2))(3)(CH(2))(10)COOH, crystallize in the same basic packing arrangement found for many n-alkyl carboxylic acids. The unit cell of the fluorinated compound, however, contains five independent molecules rather than the one found for most n-alkyl carboxylic acids including CH(3)(CH(2))(13)COOH. The structur...

The small-angle scattering (SAS) structure functions are analyzed for an idealized, random two-phase system: a stationary arrangement of hard puzzle particles, separated by a relatively thin interspace, which can be approximated by an interlayer. The detailed shape of the interlayer is defined by the shape of the particles themselves: The starting point for producing these initial particles is ...

The development of a process to emplace a refractory metal liner inside a gun tube is described. The process consists of filling the liner with an elastomeric material and then slipping this arrangement into the gun tube. The ends of the liner are plugged with plastic disks and pressure is applied to the elastomeric material by a load frame. The original clearance between the liner and gun tube...

Many species of ants excavate complex, species-typical nests in soil. The basic structural units of many nests are descending tunnels connecting flattened, generally horizontal chambers of oval to lobed outline. The species-typical structure of many nests results from variation in the size, shape, number and arrangement of these basic elements. Nest architecture can be rendered by filling subte...

The ground and first excited state of two superconducting layers in interaction are studied considering two different coupling terms, one represented by the standard Josephson interaction, and one new, which is a superexchange pairing force between bilayer pairs. It is shown that a moderate-to strong Josephson interaction produces a low-lying collective state, pictured as an out-of-phase oscill...

Imaging techniques are high in demand for modern nondestructive evaluation of large-scale concrete structures. The travel-time tomography (TTT) technique, which is based on the principle of mapping the change of propagation velocity of transient elastic waves in a measured object, has found increasing application for assessing in situ concrete structures. The primary aim of this technique is to...

Forest biophysical structure - the arrangement and frequency of leaves and stems - emerges from growth, mortality and space filling dynamics, and may also influence those dynamics by structuring light environments. To investigate this interaction, we developed models that could use LiDAR remote sensing to link leaf area profiles with tree size distributions, comparing models which did not (meta...

Crystals of 4-chloro-2'-biphenylol grown at 263 K and studied at both 293 and 142 K are loosely packed and contain OH.O bonded tetramers composed of four crystallographically independent molecules (Z' = 4). Approximate symmetry relationships between independent molecules are apparent in many, perhaps even most, structures with Z' > 1, but are not obvious in this structure. The inefficient cryst...