Binary descriptors of image patches provide processing speed advantages and require less storage than methods that encode the patch appearance with a vector of real numbers. We provide evidence that, despite its simplicity, a stochastic hill climbing descriptor construction process defeats recently proposed alternatives on a standard discriminative power benchmark. The method is easy to impleme...

T. P. Devereaux, A. M. Shvaika, K. Wu, K. Wohlfeld, C. J. Jia, Y. Wang, B. Moritz, L. Chaix, W.-S. Lee, Z.-X. Shen, G. Ghiringhelli, and L. Braicovich Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA Ins...

We present some recent BABAR measurements of the magnitudes of the elements Vub and Vcb of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark-mixing matrix, and of the angles α and γ of the unitary triangle of the standard model of the electroweak interactions. Most of the measurements presented here are based on the full BABAR Υ(4S) dataset, consisting of about 467 × 106 BB pairs. Invited talk presented at t...

Dr. Y. Qiu, G. Rong, J. Yang, G. Li, S. Ma, X. Wang, Z. Pan, Y. Hou, Dr. M. Liu, Dr. F. Ye, Dr. W. Li, Prof. Y. Zhang i -Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics Chinese Academy of Sciences Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123 , China E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Y. Qiu, Dr. Z. W. Seh, Prof. X. Tao, Dr. H. Yao, Dr. N. Liu, Dr. R. Zhang, Dr. G. Zhou, Prof. Y. Cui Department of Materials Sci...

We all agree with the Hibernian " that the roads were jist bad enough and can't be no wusser." But you have published already papers containing excellent advice both theoretical and practical on improving our country roads that it seems hopeless to expect to say anything new, and an attempt to rehash at this time may seem superfluous, but the tremendous importance of the matter to every one,esp...

The five described species of the flightless, allopatric geotrupid beetle genus Mycotrupes are restricted to deep sand ridges in peninsular Florida and adjacent, elevated hill habitats along juncture Piedmont Atlantic Coastal Plain southern South Carolina Georgia, USA. Based on examination major museum collections all species, it was concluded that Geotrupacarus mycotrupetes, a distinctive, ear...

Background: Sand production is an important factor affecting reservoir exploitation. Excessive sand production affects the oil well life, causes the damage to the oil recovery device and brings serious hidden danger in the process of safety production. Objective: This paper presents a sand content computation model for the crude oil, which uses the power of sand production and Parseval theorem,...

Settlement cxpcriments were conducted with larvae of Phragmatopoma lapidosa callfirnica (a reefbuilding sabcllariid polychaetc) in turbulent flume flows (near-surface velocities of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, and 35 cm s-l) over a hydrodynamically smooth bed. Boundary shear velocities spanned the critical shear velocity for initiation of particle motion and for suspended-load transport of passive la...