A cascaded CNN model for multiple human tracking and re-localization in complex video sequences with large displacement

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Human tracking and localization play a crucial role in many applications like accident avoidance, action recognition, safety and security, surveillance and crowd...     

Consistency,availability, and partition tolerance in blockchain: a survey on the consensus mechanism over peer-to-peer networking

Annals of Telecommunications - Blockchain is a disruptive technology that relies on the distributed nature of the peer-to-peer network while performing an agreement, or consensus, a mechanism to...     

Ion-Exchange Interaction of Glass-Forming Silicate Melts with Mixed Chloride Melts

The ion-exchange interaction of the sodium aluminosilicate and sodium galliumsilicate melts with a mixture of molten Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, and Ba chlorides is studied. It is established that two alkaline silicate melts are characterized by negative deviations from the ideal behavior, and silicate melts containing alkaline and alkaline-earth cations are characterized by noticeable positive deviations from the ideal behavior.     

Determination of the Life Cycle of Heat-Exchange Tubes of Vapor Condensers on the Basis of Statistical Analysis of Local Pitting Corrosion According to Data of Eddy Current Testing

Protection of Metals and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces - The possibility is shown of creating a chart of local corrosion damage in the walls of heat-exchange tubes on the basis of the data of...     

Path Representation in Circuit Netlists Using Linear-Sized ZDDs with Optimal Variable Ordering

The efficient representation and manipulation of a large number of paths in a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) requires the usage of special data structures that may become of exponential size with respect to the size of the graph. Several methodologies targeting Electronic Design Automation problems such as timing analysis, physical design, verification and testing involve path representation and necessary manipulation. Previous works proposed an encoding using Zero-suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams (ZDDs), which has been shown experimentally to cope well when representing structural or logical paths in VLSI circuits. However, it is well known that the ordering of the variables in a ZDD highly affects its size and, therefore, the efficiency of the methodologies utilizing these data structures. In this work, we show that using a reverse topological order for the ZDD variables bounds the number of nodes in the ZDD representing structural paths to the number of edges in the DAG considered, hence, making the ZDD size linear to the DAG’s size. This result, supported here both theoretically and experimentally, is very important as it can render methodologies with questionable scalability applicable to larger industrial designs. We demonstrate the applicability of the proposed variable ordering in one such methodology which utilizes ZDDs to grade the Path Delay Fault coverage of a given test set.     

Vibrational Molding of Filtering Materials Using Stainless Steel and Saponite Powders

Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics - The paper describes the results of vibrational molding and proposes a process for producing a gradient filtering material from stainless steel and saponite...     

Influence of Sodium Microalloying on Rolling Contact Endurance and Mechanical Properties of Hot-Deformed Powder Steels

Russian Journal of Non-Ferrous Metals - Rolling bearing rings comprise a large reserve for expanding powder metallurgy production. This reserve is being incompletely implemented. The hot forging of...     

Prospects for Producing Special Cold-Resistant Economically Alloyed Nickel Ferritic Steel for Liquefied Natural Gas Storage and Transportation Vessels

Metallurgist - Ferritic steels are developed economically alloyed with nickel (up to 7%) with increased strength and low-temperature toughness for the manufacture of liquefied natural gas (LNG)...     

Transformation of sputtered calcium copper titanate thin film into nanorods by sequential annealing

Rapid synthesis of long calcium copper titanate (CCTO) nanorods was carried out by sequential annealing. CCTO thin films have been deposited on p-Si substrate by RF sputtering technique and afterwards, the samples were thermally treated using a preheated furnace by varying the annealing temperature from 850 °C to 1100 °C. CCTO nanorods of 12 µm lengths and 400–600 nm diameters were synthesized at 1100 °C. Based on the FESEM observations, a plausible growth mechanism has been proposed to explain the formation of nanorods. The (220) XRD peak of the CCTO film became prominent for the annealing temperature of 950 °C. The presence of nanoscale crystals in amorphous matrix has been observed by HRTEM studies. The elemental mapping of CCTO nanorod has shown a spatial variation of elements throughout the nanorod. The oxide and interface charge density was found to be increased with the rise in annealing temperature.