Personal and Family Archives: A Simplified Approach to Collecting, Organizing, and Preserving Analog and Digital Photographs, Movies, Videos, Letters, and Other Documents

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Henry Wilhelm ◽  
Harold Fuson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Photographs ◽  
Simplified Approach

Simplified Approach to Calculating Geometric Stiffness Properties of Tread Pattern Elements

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Okonieski ◽  
D. J. Moseley ◽  
K. Y. Cai
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Functional Design ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
Tire Industry ◽  
Geometric Stiffness ◽  
Stiffness Properties ◽  
Engineering Parameters ◽  
Net To Gross ◽  
Significant Effort

Abstract The influence of tread designs on tire performance is well known. The tire industry spends significant effort in the development process to create and refine tread patterns. Creating an aesthetic yet functional design requires characterization of the tread design using many engineering parameters such as stiffness, moments of inertia, principal angles, etc. The tread element stiffness is of particular interest because of its use to objectively determine differences between tread patterns as the designer refines the design to provide optimum levels of performance. The tread designer monitors the change in stiffness as the design evolves. Changes to the geometry involve many attributes including the number of sipes, sipe depth, sipe location, block element edge taper, nonskid depth, area net-to-gross, and so forth. In this paper, two different formulations for calculating tread element or block stiffness are reviewed and are compared to finite element results in a few cases. A few simple examples are shown demonstrating the basic functionality that is possible with a numerical method.

A Simplified Protocol for the ortho-Deuteration of Acidic Aromatic Compounds in D2O

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Garreau ◽  
Hanyang Zhou ◽  
Michael Young
Keyword(s):  
Carboxylic Acid ◽  
Aromatic Compounds ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
Directing Group ◽  
Large Scale Synthesis

<div>Methods to catalytically introduce deuterium in synthetically useful yields ortho to a carboxylic acid directing group on arenes typically requires D2 or CD3CO2D, which makes using these approaches cost prohibitive for large scale synthesis (equipment and reagent costs respectively). Herein we present a simplified approach using catalytic RhIII and D2O as deuterium source, and show its application to H/D exchange on various acidic substrates.</div>

A Simplified Protocol for the ortho-Deuteration of Acidic Aromatic Compounds in D2O

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Garreau ◽  
Hanyang Zhou ◽  
Michael Young
Keyword(s):  
Carboxylic Acid ◽  
Aromatic Compounds ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
Directing Group ◽  
Large Scale Synthesis

<div>Methods to catalytically introduce deuterium in synthetically useful yields ortho to a carboxylic acid directing group on arenes typically requires D2 or CD3CO2D, which makes using these approaches cost prohibitive for large scale synthesis (equipment and reagent costs respectively). Herein we present a simplified approach using catalytic RhIII and D2O as deuterium source, and show its application to H/D exchange on various acidic substrates.</div>

Facial recognition technologies and the new physiognomic era

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Abigail Nieves Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Personal Identification ◽  
Digital Photographs ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
The Way

The current overproduction of images of faces in digital photographs and videos, and the widespread use of facial recognition technologies have important effects on the way we understand ourselves and others. This is because facial recognition technologies create new circulation pathways of images that transform portraits and photographs into material for potential personal identification. In other words, different types of images of faces become available to the scrutiny of facial recognition technologies. In these new circulation pathways, images are continually shared between many different actors who use (or abuse) them for different purposes. Besides this distribution of images, the categorization practices involved in the development and use of facial recognition systems reinvigorate physiognomic assumptions and judgments (e.g., about beauty, race, dangerousness). They constitute the framework through which faces are interpreted. This paper shows that, because of this procedure, facial recognition technologies introduce new and far-reaching »facialization« processes, which reiterate old discriminatory practices.

scholarly journals Accuracy and Reproducibility of Facial Measurements of Digital Photographs and Wrapped Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) Photographs

Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 757
Author(s):  
Maged Sultan Alhammadi ◽  
Abeer Abdulkareem Al-mashraqi ◽  
Rayid Hussain Alnami ◽  
Nawaf Mohammad Ashqar ◽  
Omar Hassan Alamir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Soft Tissue ◽  
Cone Beam Computed Tomography ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cone Beam ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Facial Profile ◽  
Digital Photographs ◽  
Gonial Angle

The study sought to assess whether the soft tissue facial profile measurements of direct Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) and wrapped CBCT images of non-standardized facial photographs are accurate compared to the standardized digital photographs. In this cross-sectional study, 60 patients with an age range of 18–30 years, who were indicated for CBCT, were enrolled. Two facial photographs were taken per patient: standardized and random (non-standardized). The non-standardized ones were wrapped with the CBCT images. The most used soft tissue facial profile landmarks/parameters (linear and angular) were measured on direct soft tissue three-dimensional (3D) images and on the photographs wrapped over the 3D-CBCT images, and then compared to the standardized photographs. The reliability analysis was performed using concordance correlation coefficients (CCC) and depicted graphically using Bland–Altman plots. Most of the linear and angular measurements showed high reliability (0.91 to 0.998). Nevertheless, four soft tissue measurements were unreliable; namely, posterior gonial angle (0.085 and 0.11 for wrapped and direct CBCT soft tissue, respectively), mandibular plane angle (0.006 and 0.0016 for wrapped and direct CBCT soft tissue, respectively), posterior facial height (0.63 and 0.62 for wrapped and direct CBCT soft tissue, respectively) and total soft tissue facial convexity (0.52 for both wrapped and direct CBCT soft tissue, respectively). The soft tissue facial profile measurements from either the direct 3D-CBCT images or the wrapped CBCT images of non-standardized frontal photographs were accurate, and can be used to analyze most of the soft tissue facial profile measurements.

scholarly journals Simplified Approach to Predict Food Safety through the Maximum Specific Bacterial Growth Rate as Function of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Parameters

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Pedro D. Gaspar ◽  
Joel Alves ◽  
Pedro Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Bacterial Growth ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Extrinsic Factors ◽  
Bacterial Growth Rate ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
Food Safety And Quality

Currently, we assist the emergence of sensors and low-cost information and communication technologies applied to food products, in order to improve food safety and quality along the food chain. Thus, it is relevant to implement predictive mathematical modeling tools in order to predict changes in the food quality and allow decision-making for expiration dates. To perform that, the Baranyi and Roberts model and the online tool Combined Database for Predictive Microbiology (Combase) were used to determine the factors that define the growth of different bacteria. These factors applied to the equation that determines the maximum specific growth rate establish a relation between the bacterial growth and the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that define the bacteria environment. These models may be programmed in low-cost wireless biochemical sensor devices applied to packaging and food supply chains to promote food safety and quality through real time traceability.

scholarly journals Settling Velocity of Microplastics Exposed to Wave Action

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Annalisa De Leo ◽  
Laura Cutroneo ◽  
Damien Sous ◽  
Alessandro Stocchino
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Settling Velocity ◽  
Transport Model ◽  
Stokes Drift ◽  
Inertial Effects ◽  
Sea Waves ◽  
Heavy Particles ◽  
Analytical Formulation ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
Remote Areas

Microplastic (MP) debris is recognized to be one of the most serious threats to marine environments. They are found in all seas and oceanic basins worldwide, even in the most remote areas. This is further proof that the transport of MPs is very efficient. In the present study, we focus our attention on MPs’ transport owing to the Stokes drift generated by sea waves. Recent studies have shown that the interaction between heavy particles and Stokes drift leads to unexpected phenomena mostly related to inertial effects. We perform a series of laboratory experiments with the aim to directly measure MPs’ trajectories under different wave conditions. The main objective is to quantify the inertial effect and, ultimately, suggest a new analytical formulation for the net settling velocity. The latter formula might be implemented in a larger scale transport model in order to account for inertial effects in a simplified approach.

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