When an electric utility with a power plant in the southwestern U.S. prepared for a planned, major outage on its two Siemens ...

The term Venn diagram did not appear until 1918, when Clarence Lewis, an American academic philosopher and the eventual founder of conceptual pragmatism, referred to the circular depiction as the ...

Edge detection is a fundamental step for ultrasound image analysis. However, it remains to be a difficult problem due to the intrinsic noisy nature of ultrasound images. In this paper, an edge ...

Extracting centerlines of coronary arteries is a challenging but important task in clinical applications of cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA). In this paper, we propose an inertia-driven ...

According Machado and Cavalca (2011), the hydrodynamic forces components F r and F t (Figure 3) are obtained by the integration of the pressure field.These forces are decomposed in the Y-Z inertial ...

Studying the concentration and temperature dependence of the conductivity of electrolyte solution is of great significance for the evaluation and improvement of the performance of the electrochemical ...