Stem form development of trees in response to wind has been established in the literature to be a response to stem sway induced by the wind. The response is manifested in modifications to height and diameter growth which strengthen the stem against wind stresses. Experiments in the literature show that...
A pharmacognostic study was made of the root of Heracleum
mantegazzianum, an umbelliferous species which is of value as a
source of natural coumarins.
Three groups of seeds were tested to determine the presence
of a germination requirement for moist cold and the possible value
of gibberellic acid in obviating...
This thesis addresses a fundamental computer vision problem, that of action recognition. The goal of action recognition is to recognize a class of human actions in a given video. Action recognition has a wide range of applications, including automated surveillance, sports video analysis, internet-based searches etc. The main challenge is...
The study of the diversity of multivariate objects shares common characteristics across disciplines, including ecology and organizational management. Nevertheless, experts in these two disciplines have adopted somewhat separate diversity concepts and analysis techniques, limiting the ability of potentially sharing and cross comparing these concerns. Moreover, while complex diversity data may...
This dissertation introduces a new idea for frequency
domain deconvolution of speech signals. The idea is to
approximate a unit sample by a Gaussian pulse. The
deconvolution is performed by designing a glottal inverse
filter that will estimate the excitation of the vocal tract.
Then, the excitation will be used...
The resolution of multiple overlapped reflections is
achieved by designing inverse filters using frequency
domain deconvolution. A careful study reveals a number of
problems involving frequency domain design of spike inverse
filters. These include the presence of noise and aliasing
in both the filter response and its output resulting from...