The Cloud Absorption Radiometer (CAR) was flown aboard the University of Washington Convair 580 (CV-580) research aircraft during the Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites (CLAMS) field campaign and obtained measurements of bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) of the ocean in July and August 2001 under different illumination conditions with solar zenit...

Traditionally, Computer Colorant Formulation has been implemented using a theory of radiation transfer known as the Kubelka-Munk (K-M) theory. In recent studies, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has been put forward for dealing with color formulation problems. This paper investigates the ability of Support Vector Machines (SVMs), a particular machine learning technique, to help color adjustmen...

In this work optical properties of titanium dioxide nanoparticles were studied. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles were synthesized by the sol-gel method followed by a hydrothermal treatment using tetraisopropyl orthotitanate (TIOT) and 2-propanol. The synthesized samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (UV/DRS) and nitrogen adsorption-desorpti...

The use of multiple substrates in color printers requires color characterization for each of the individual media. A full re-characterization for each substrate is measurement and labor intensive. In this paper, a variety of methods are proposed and evaluated for determining the color characterization for a new substrate based on a complete characterization on a reference substrate and a small ...

This paper is concerned about the estimation of an infinite-dimensional parameter θ0 which is identified via E[ρ(Z, θ0)|W ] = 0 where W is a continuous instrument and ρ(.) a known mapping. Using the principle of Tikhonov regularization developed in Bissantz, Hohage and Munk (2004), a first stage estimator θ̂ minimizing some penalized objective achieves ||θ̂ − θ0|| = Op(n 1 4+γ ) for some positive...

A computer simulation was performed to investigate the optimum combinations of threeand four-chromatic inks in order to maximize the color gamut for halftone printing. A virtual printing model was created based on the YuleNielsen-spectral-Neugebauer equations and Kubelka-Munk turbid media theory and was used to predict the spectral reflectances and colorimetric coordinates of prints. In this ma...

We present the error analysis of a B-spline based finite-element approximation of the stream-function formulation of the large scale winddriven ocean circulation. In particular, we derive optimal error estimates for h-refinement using a Nitsche-type variational formulations of the two simplied linear models of the stationary quasigeostrophic equations, namely the Stommel and Stommel–Munk models...

1 Division of Cardiology, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada 2 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 3 Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada 4 Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Toronto, Canada 5 Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Schulich Heart Centre, Toronto, Canada 6 Department of Emergency Medicine (PSP), Indian...

CLAUS MUNK PLUM, PH.D. P REVIOUS investigations by one of us (C.M.P.) have demonstrated the possibility of keeping a suspension of bone marrow alive in vitro for several hours for studies on erythropoiesis.3 In the present investigation we have utilized this technic to examine the erythropoietic activity of marrow from normal persons and from cases of pernicious anemia and lymphatic leukosis be...