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Nutritional supplementation in enteral and parenteral nutrition for people with acute pancreatitis
No full textsj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089231190225 - Supplemental material for Investigation of mechanical and viscoelastic properties of <i>Agave cantala</i> fiber-reinforced green composites for structural applications
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089231190225 for Investigation of mechanical and viscoelastic properties of Agave cantala fiber-reinforced green composites for structural applications by M Ramesh, M Tamil Selvan, A Felix Sahayaraj, I Jenish, P Balakrishnan and Arivumani Ravanan in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering</p
Boundary Extraction in Images Using Hierarchical Clustering-based Segmentation
No full textHierarchical organization is one of the main characteristics of human segmentation. A human subject segments a natural image by identifying physical objects and marking their boundaries up to a certain level of detail [1]. Hierarchical clustering based segmentation (HCS) process mimics this capability of the human vision. The HCS process automatically generates a hierarchy of segmented images. The hierarchy represents the continuous merging of similar, spatially adjacent or disjoint, regions as the allowable threshold value of dissimilarity between regions, for merging, is gradually increased. HCS process is unsupervised and is completely data driven. This ensures that the segmentation process can be applied to any image,
without any prior information about the image data and without any need for prior training of the segmentation process with the relevant image data.
The implementation details of HCS process have been described elsewhere in the author's work [2]. The purpose of the current study is to demonstrate the performance
of the HCS process in outlining boundaries in images and its possible application in processing medical images.
[1] P. Arbelaez. Boundary Extraction in Natural Images Using Ultrametric Contour Maps. Proceedings 5th IEEE Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV'06). June 2006. New York, USA.
[2] A. N. Selvan. Highlighting Dissimilarity in Medical Images Using Hierarchical Clustering Based Segmentation (HCS). M. Phil. dissertation, Faculty of Arts Computing Engineering and Sciences Sheffield Hallam Univ., Sheffield, UK, 2007.</p
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Pembangunan aplikasi pembelajaran M-SPWTC untuk kursus pemasangan dan penyelenggaraan elektrik satu fasa
No full textPenggunaan pembelajaran mobile sebagai bahan sokongan pembelajaran semakin meluas dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran masa kini. Namun begitu masalah yang wujud adalah tidak ada satu aplikasi pembelajaran yang berasaskan pembelajaran mobile yang pernah dibangunkan atau disediakan untuk keperluan pelajar kolej vokasional dalam kursus Pemasangan dan Penyelenggaraan Elektrik Satu Fasa khususnya bagi topik pengujian elektrik satu fasa. Oleh itu, tujuan aplikasi pembelajaran M-SPWTC yang berasaskan platform android ini dibangunkan adalah untuk dijadikan bahan sokongan pembelajaran serta meningkatkan pemahaman pelajar dalam kursus Pemasangan dan Penyelenggaraan Elektrik Satu Fasa. Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk membangunkan dan menilai kesesuaian elemen yang terdapat di dalam aplikasi pembelajaran M-SPWTC serta mengenalpasti penerimaan pelajar terhadap aplikasi pembelajaran M-SPWTC. Reka bentuk kajian ini bersifat pembangunan produk dengan menggunakan model ADDIE dan kaedah kajian berbentuk kajian kuantitatif. Seramai 30 orang pelajar kolej vokasional dan 4 orang pakar telah dipilih sebagai responden dalam kajian ini dengan menggunakan instrumen soal selidik yang telah dianalisis menggunakan perisian Statistical Packages for the Social Science (SPSS) versi 20 bagi mendapatkan kekerapan, peratusan, serta min. Secara keseluruhannya aplikasi pembelajaran M-SPWTC ini berjaya dibangunkan dan boleh diterima pakai. Hasil dapatan penilaian juga menunjukkan elemen yang diintegrasikan dalam M-SPWTC memenuhi keperluan penggunaan seperti penggunaan teks, video, animasi dan grafik serta diterima oleh pelajar sebagai bahan sokongan dalam pembelajaran. Dapatan kajian ini boleh digunakan sebagai panduan kepada perekabentuk kandungan pembelajaran atas talian khususnya bagi bidang TVET
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
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