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Improvements in aircraft extraction programs
Flight data from an F-8 Corsair and a Cessna 172 was analyzed to demonstrate specific improvements in the LRC parameter extraction computer program. The Cramer-Rao bounds were shown to provide a satisfactory relative measure of goodness of parameter estimates. It was not used as an absolute measure due to an inherent uncertainty within a multiplicative factor, traced in turn to the uncertainty in the noise bandwidth in the statistical theory of parameter estimation. The measure was also derived on an entirely nonstatistical basis, yielding thereby also an interpretation of the significance of off-diagonal terms in the dispersion matrix. The distinction between coefficients as linear and non-linear was shown to be important in its implication to a recommended order of parameter iteration. Techniques of improving convergence generally, were developed, and tested out on flight data. In particular, an easily implemented modification incorporating a gradient search was shown to improve initial estimates and thus remove a common cause for lack of convergence
Batch biosorption studies for the biosorption of chromium using cherry leaves (Muntingia calabura L.)
Chromium is a heavy metal which is commonly used in many industries such aschemical, metallurgical and electroplating industries.The discharge of effluents from theseindustries constitutes one of the major causes of land and water pollution and degradation.Therefore, biosorption is a potential technique generally used for the removal of heavymetals from the solutions and recovery of precious metals. In the present study, batchbiosorption studies was conducted at different conditions such as varying pH (4, 5, 6),temperature (30, 40, 50°C), biomass concentration (0.5. 0.75, 1.0, 1.25 g) and initial metalconcentration (50, 100, 150, 200 mg/l) for the biosorption of chromium by cherry leaves. Fromthe experiments it was found that the biosorption efficiency increases with increasedtemperature and biomass concentration but decreased with increased pH and chromiumconcentratio
An Unsupervised Learning Model for Deformable Medical Image Registration
We present a fast learning-based algorithm for deformable, pairwise 3D
medical image registration. Current registration methods optimize an objective
function independently for each pair of images, which can be time-consuming for
large data. We define registration as a parametric function, and optimize its
parameters given a set of images from a collection of interest. Given a new
pair of scans, we can quickly compute a registration field by directly
evaluating the function using the learned parameters. We model this function
using a convolutional neural network (CNN), and use a spatial transform layer
to reconstruct one image from another while imposing smoothness constraints on
the registration field. The proposed method does not require supervised
information such as ground truth registration fields or anatomical landmarks.
We demonstrate registration accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art 3D image
registration, while operating orders of magnitude faster in practice. Our
method promises to significantly speed up medical image analysis and processing
pipelines, while facilitating novel directions in learning-based registration
and its applications. Our code is available at
https://github.com/balakg/voxelmorph .Comment: 9 pages, in CVPR 201
Novel magnetic phases in a Gd2Ti2O7 pyrochlore for a field applied along the [100] axis
We report on longitudinal and transverse magnetisation measurements performed
on single crystal samples of Gd2Ti2O7 for a magnetic field applied along the
[100] direction. The measurements reveal the presence of previously unreported
phases in fields below 10 kOe in an addition to the higher-field-induced phases
that are also seen for H//[111], [110], and [112]. The proposed H-T phase
diagram for the [100] direction looks distinctly different from all the other
directions studied previously.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Rate coefficients for rovibrational transitions in H_2 due to collisions with He
We present quantum mechanical and quasiclassical trajectory calculations of
cross sections for rovibrational transitions in ortho- and para-H_2 induced by
collisions with He atoms. Cross sections were obtained for kinetic energies
between 10^-4 and 3 eV, and the corresponding rate coefficients were calculated
for the temperature range 100<T<4000 K. Comparisons are made with previous
calculations.Comment: 21 pages, 2 figures, AAS, eps
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