Polyethylene terephthalate; Activated carbon; Surface area; Response surface methodology; Central composite design In this study, the preparation of activated carbon from post-consumer PET impregnated ...

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Segmentation of corneal layer interfaces in optical coherence tomography (OCT) images is important for diagnostic and surgical purposes, while manual segmentation is a time-consuming and tedious ...

Abstract: Quadric surfaces are commonly seen geometries in man-made targets. In this article, a unified bidirectional scattering distribution function (BSDF) is analytically derived for general convex ...

ABSTRACT: Fitting C2-continuous or superior surfaces to a set S of points sampled on a 2-manifold is central to reverse engineering, computer aided geometric modeling, entertaining, modeling of art ...

The old adage goes that if something ain't broke, don't fix it. Now while that's often sage advice, obviously there's a limit to how long you can keep something going — especially a gadget — before it ...

The dents and cracks of cabbage caused by mechanical damage during transportation have a direct impact on both commercial value and storage time. In this study, a method for surface defect detection ...

Starting your Surface from a USB drive can be useful if you want to change firmware settings or Windows startup settings or if your Surface device does not turn on, start, boot, or wake from sleep.

The three tasks are separated into different functions to put them in different scopes and make them run completely separately. All imports are collected at the top of the file and the three functions ...