When CCD image sensor is exposed to very intense light , an excess charge is generated in photodiode. This excess charge may leak into neighboring cells. This phenomenon is called Blooming. To stop blooming phenomenon an Overflow Drain structure is adapted to suppress this excess charge. In this paper CCD Image sensor with a Vertical Overflow Drain (VOD) structure is investigated in one and two...

The algal blooming in the inland lakes has become a critically important issue for its impacts not only on local natural and social environments, but also on global human community. However, the occurrences of blooming on larger spatial scale and longer time scale have rarely been studied. As the third largest freshwater lake in China, Lake Taihu has drawn increasing attention from both public ...

warning that deadly new strains of tuberculosis, virtually untreatable using the drugs currently available, appear to be spreading across the globe, raising the spectre of a resurgence in a disease which for many generations has laid in the background, seemingly beaten, but which may now make a major comeback as a lethal new pathogen. The new strains are known as extreme drug-resistant TB or XD...

The aim of this study is to describe variability in the shape and amplitude of intensity profiles of anger episodes and how it relates to duration, and to investigate whether this variability can be predicted on the basis of appraisals and emotion regulation strategies used. Participants were asked to report on a wide range of recollected anger episodes. By means of K-spectral centroid clusteri...

Three studies compared beliefs about natural and late blooming positive traits with those acquired through personal effort, extrinsic rewards or medicine. Young children (5-6 years), older children (8-13 years), and adults all showed a strong bias for natural and late blooming traits over acquired traits. All age groups, except 8- to 10-year-olds, treated natural and late-blooming traits as fix...

Thermal blooming has been evaluated numerically in two-dimensional for CO2 laser beam transmitting through high pressure CO2 gas. Thermal blooming occurs when a portion of the laser beam is absorbed when transmitted through an absorbing medium such as atmosphere. High pressure gas medium is very useful for experimental simulations. In our calculation the beam was assumed to have an initially ri...

The objective of this research is to build an automatic method for recognizing a Thai blooming flower based on minimum distance for finding similarities between each type of Thai blooming flower. The Euclidean distance technique was applied in order to improve performance of retrieval processes. The flower images were acquired from digital cameras which were taken at close range to ignore the b...