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Digitized material from "'Shin shinfujin' kaisetsu, sōmokuji, sakuin"
No full textTables of contents and author index for the eight-volume set Shin shin fujin.The Mellon Foundation - Council on East Asian Libraries Innovation Grants for East Asian Librarian
Directionally classified eigenblocks for localized feature analysis in face recognition
No full textA new local feature extraction method is introduced. The directionality of local facial regions is regarded as essential information for discriminating faces in our approach, which is motivated by the directional selectivity of the Gabor wavelet transformation, which has been preferred to others for face recognition. The discriminative directional information is forced to be compacted in a few coefficients by applying principle-component analysis with the support of directional classification in the discrete cosine transform domain. The local features extracted by our method are better at discriminating face patterns than previous ones, as was verified by comparison of class-separability results. Also, in face recognition simulations using rigid and flexible face matching strategies based on locally extracted features, our proposed method showed outstanding performance. (c) 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
An Internal Variable Approach to the Superplastic Deformation Behavior of a Pb-Sn Eutectic Alloy
No full textBone temperature estimation during orthopaedic round bur milling operations
No full textHeat generation during orthopaedic bone cutting operations may cause thermal bone damage. During the bone cutting, the maximum temperature occurs at the point of contact between the bone and the cutting tool. However, this temperature is difficult to measure. Many researchers have attempted to measure this temperature using a thermocouple; however, limitations of the thermocouple makes it difficult to determine the maximum temperature at the point of contact. In order to solve this problem, in this study, two infrared thermometers are used to measure the fresh-milled surface temperature, and the maximum temperature was extrapolated by a moving plane heat source solution. The estimated maximum temperature increment varied from 49 to 115 degrees C under various cutting conditions. These results showed that the thermal damage may reach up to 1.9 mm, in depth during round bur milling. A larger feed rate and a smaller cutting depth decreased the maximum temperature. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
A numerical study on the effect of flow distribution on reactor performance
No full textA numerical study was conducted to analyse the effect of flow distribution of stirred part and plug flow part on combustion efficiency at the coal gasification process in an entrained bed coal reactor. The model of computation was based on gas-phase Eulerian balance equations of momentum and mass. The solid phase was described by Lagrangian equations of motion. The k-epsilon model was used to calculate the turbulence flow and the eddy dissipation model was used to describe the gas-phase reaction rate. The radiation was solved using a Monte-Carlo method. A one-step two parallel reaction model was employed for the devolatilization process of a high volatile bituminous Kideco coal. The computations agreed well with the experiments, but the flame front was closer to the burner than the measured one. The flow distribution of a stirred part and a plug flow part in a reactor was a function of the magnitude of recirculation zone resulting from the swirl. The combustion efficiency was enhanced with decreasing stirred part and the maximum value was found to be around S = 1.2, having the minimum stirred part. The combustion efficiency resulted from not only the flow distribution but also from the particle residence time through the hot reaction zone of the stirred part, in particular for the weak swirl without IRZ (internal recirculation zone) and the long lifted flame. Copyright (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Poetry Reading: Sun Yung Shin
No full textJoin us for a poetry reading by Minnesota Book Award winner Sun Yung Shin and discussion on what sanctuary means for the Twin Cities.
The event is co-sponsored with the St. Thomas English Department.
Sun Yung Shin is the editor of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and the author of two previous poetry/essay collections—Rough, and Savageand Skirt Full of Black (both from Coffee House Press). She is also the co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, and the author of bilingual illustrated book for children Cooper’s Lesson. She has received artist grants from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the McKnight Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. She is teaching or has taught at St. Catherine University, Hamline University, Macalester College, the University of Minnesota, the Perpich Center for Arts Education, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis public schools, and the Loft Literary Center
Acoustic Analysis of Interior Space by Using the Geometrical Acoustic Model Including the Phase
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A Minimized Hardware Architecture of Fast Phong Shader Using Taylor Series Approximation in 3D Graphics
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