0957-4174/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2011.08.165 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +39 0547 339121; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L. Nanni), (S. Brahnam), [email protected] (A. Lumini). Presented in this paper is a novel feature extractor technique based on texture descriptors. Starting from the standard feature vector representation, we study ...

Preferred crystallographic orientation, or texture, occurs almost universally, both in natural and man-made systems. Many components and devices in electronic and magnetic systems are fabricated from materials that have crystallographic texture. With the rapidly increasing use of thin film technology, where sharp axisymmetric crystallographic texture normal to the film plane is frequently obser...

the physico-chemical characteristics and physiological qualities of palm (phoenix dactylifera) fruit strongly depend on the storage conditions. storage environment and packaging type are the factors most influencing on the quality of dates during their storage. date fruits were packed within an aerobic atmosphere, vacuumed in pa/pe pouches and stored at different temperatures (-20, 4, 25 and 40...

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processed or melted cheeses are producing in variation kinds because of variety in material blends.using ultrafiltered feta cheese and milk protein co-precipitate in this processed cheese is possible. also, creamy texture of this product is a good and cheaper competitor and substitute for ultra filtered feta cheese that because of creamy texture, more increased its prod. and consumption. also b...

Removing the green husk and drying walnut are one of the most important steps in post-harvest processing of walnut. Therefore, it is need to precisely identify a walnut’s shell. Physical and mechanical properties of shell in the four Persian walnut cultivars/genotypes were studied. This study investigated the mechanical properties of a walnut’s husk and calculated the required energy in the pro...

A wide range of software tools have been developed for visualising three-dimensional range data of topographic surfaces. Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), derived from photogrammetric measurements and from digitised contour maps are here used for illustration. To increase our understanding of the information content in DEMs in isolation or in combination with remotelysensed images and to facilit...

Topological defects are found in a variety of systems, and their existence is robust under perturbations due to topological nature. Here we introduce type defect electromagnetic waves: spin defects. Such associated with point where the density zero, generically has nontrivial texture surrounding point. Due such texture, possesses quantized charge. We provide examples isolated points, periodic o...

Surface texturing is used to increase hydrodynamic pressure and reduce friction and wear between parallel sliding surfaces in a variety of applications. The shape, geometry, and density of the patterned microtexture features play a key role in the tribological performance of such textured slider bearings. Lubrication models are used to predict the load-carrying capacity, friction coefficient, a...