Local jet pattern: a robust descriptor for texture classification

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Methods based on locally encoded image features have recently become popular for texture classification tasks, particularly in the existence of large intra-class...     

Structural,microstructural, and thermal characterizations of a chalcopyrite concentrate from the Singhbhum shear zone,India

The structural and morphological characterizations of a chalcopyrite concentrate, collected from the Indian Copper Complex, Ghatshila, India, were carried out by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron mi...     

In-situ crystal growth and photoluminescence properties of YBO3: Tb3+ microstructures

Three-dimensional (3D) YBO₃:Tb³⁺ flower-like and dense flower-like hierarchitecture constituted of nanoflakes are solvothermally synthesized in the presence of polyborate precursors in the mixture of ethanol and water. The growth process of the YBO₃:Tb³⁺ flowers and dense flowers was explored based on the time-dependent experiment and the results showed that the growth mechanism follows an in situ growth rather than self-assembly process as reported previously. YBO₃:Tb³⁺ morphologies composed of nanoflakes are achieved by controlling the concentration of ethanol and dependence of photoluminescence on morphology was studied. Remarkable photoluminescence enhancement was observed for YBO₃:Tb³⁺ with flower-like morphology demonstrating the potential of the microstructure in future applications as a green phosphor. Such a synthetic method and growth mechanism may be applied to fabricate complex 3D architectures of other materials.     

Bandwidth Enhancement of a Wide Slot Antenna Using Fractal Geometry for UWB Application with Multiple Notched Bands

Wireless Personal Communications - In this paper a combination of rectangular and elliptical fractal geometry is applied on a regular hexagonal wide slot antenna fabricated using a FR4 substrate to...     

Variability in seismic response of secondary systems due to uncertain soil properties

A mode acceleration formulation is presented to investigate the variability in the response of a secondary system which is supported on a flexible-base primary system at multiple attachment points. The response functions are considered to be uncertain due to uncertainties in the values of shear wave velocity and Poisson’s ratio of the foundation soil. Both soil parameters are assumed to be statistically independent variables with Gaussian distributions. A numerical study with the help of an example primary-secondary (P–S) system shows that dynamic response should be ignored only for very stiff secondary modes, say > 7 times as stiff as the dominant mode of the primary system, for the proposed formulation to work well. It is also seen that uncertainty in shear wave velocity can be ignored in case of limited soil-structure interaction, while uncertainty in Poisson’s ratio should be considered only when soil damping is sensitive to the Poisson’s ratio and there is significant soil-structure interaction.     

Destruction of percolative network using green synthesized gold nanoparticles: Formation of high dielectric material

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) of about 5 nm in diameter were biosynthesized at room temperature (300 K). The PVA/2.5 wt% KH₂PO₄ or KDP composite film and PVA/2.5 wt% KDP/AuNPs nanocomposite films with different concentrations of AuNPs were prepared. Interestingly, addition of 0.05 wt% of AuNPs to the PVA/2.5 wt% KDP percolative composite film destroys percolative behavior of this composite film. Furthermore, the PVA/2.5 wt% KDP/0.05 wt% AuNPs nanocomposite film exhibited high room temperature dielectric permittivity (ε′ ∼ 590 at 1 kHz). The behavior of AC conductivity (σ_ac) of the nanocomposite films indicated correlated barrier hopping type of conduction mechanism. The Cole–Davidson dielectric response becomes evident as the interfacial polarization process acquires a more symmetric form, tending to Debye relaxation. High value of ε′ promises direct application in capacitors. Moreover, the novel feature of destroying the percolative behavior by AuNPs may be applied even in other systems.     

Secured secret sharing technique based on chaotic map and DNA encoding with application on secret image

This paper shows a secured key-based (k, n) threshold cryptography scheme, where key as well as secret data is shared among set of participants. In this scheme, each share has some bytes missing and these missing bytes can be recovered from a set of exactly k shares, but not less than k. Therefore, each share contains partial secret information which is also encrypted by DNA encoding scheme. Additionally, this paper introduces a concept, where each share information size is varied. More precisely, each share contains a different percentage of secret information and which is strongly dependent on the key. Moreover key sensitivity analysis and statistical analysis prove the robustness against different cryptanalysis attacks and thus ensures high acceptability for information security requirements.