not all values of literary texts should be sought for in their artistic aspects . there have been many lower-ranked literary texts that have shed light on numerous scientific, historical, social, and cultural issues. although poetic views are involved while raising such issues, it needs to be taken into account that not all poets have perceived the scientific principles of the topics tackled in...

Motion estimation is the main bottleneck in real-time video coding applications, and the search for fast and effective motion estimation algorithms has been a challenging problem recently. This paper describes a new block-matching algorithm that exploits the spatial and temporal correlations, and proposes an adaptive twolevel multi-mode search algorithm (ATMMS) based on the analysis of the neig...

A method to investigate light and radiation field congruence utilizing a commercially available amorphous silicon electronic portal imaging device (EPID) was developed. This method employed an EPID, the associated EPI software, and a diamond-shaped template. The template was constructed from a block tray in which Sn/Pb wires, 1 mm in diameter, were embedded into a diamond shaped groove milled i...

Diamond coated cutting tools provide several advantages over traditional cutting tools, specifically in the machining of advanced materials such as composites. One of the main disadvantages of diamond coated cutting tools is the residual stresses induced from the diamond deposition, which lead to tool failure. Moreover, the cutting edge geometry can be critical to the deposition residual stress...

The Ultra-nanocrystalline diamond (UNCD) was synthesized by the detonation of a high explosive mixture in water confinement. The presence of a diamond phase was revealed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). X-ray line broadening (XRLB) was used to evaluate the peak profiles of diamond nanoparticles and their corresponding average crystallite sizes. The micro st...

In block-matching motion estimation (BMME), the search patterns have a significant impact on the algorithm’s performance, both the search speed and the search quality. The search pattern should be designed to fit the motion vector probability (MVP) distribution characteristics of the real-world sequences. In this paper, we build a directional model of MVP distribution to describe the directiona...

We report the discovery of vertically aligned nano-scale diamond tips grown on the polycrystalline diamond substrates in a CH4/N2/H2 mixed plasma. The best diamond quality occurs at the top part of the nanotip, which is single crystalline diamond. The quality of the diamond nanotip is justified by the diamond characteristic peak at 1332 cm 1 in the Raman spectrum, the discrete electron diffract...

Multi-framc motion compensation improves the rate-distortion performancc substantially but introduces much higher loading to the system. Without considering temporal correlations, convcntional singlc-frame block-matching algorithms can bc used to search multiple frames in a rather inefficient frame-byframc way. In order to exploit the motion characteristic in longterm memory, a multi-frame exte...

We introduce a new algorithm for computing zigzag persistence, designed in the same spirit as the standard persistence algorithm. Our algorithm reduces a single matrix, maintains an explicit set of chains encoding the persistent homology of the current zigzag, and updates it under simplex insertions and removals. The total worst-case running time matches the usual cubic bound. A noticeable diff...

In H.264/AVC, tree structured motion estimation enhances the coding efficiency significantly while dramatically increasing the computational complexity of block matching. In the paper, a successive elimination algorithm (SEA) is implemented in tree structured motion estimation with a simple and effective method to determine the initial motion vector, which exploits the strong correlation among ...