Fingerprint recognition is arguably the most popular biometric used in authentication of individuals today. One critical step in the process of automatic fingerprint recognition is the segmentation of a digital fingerprint ...

In fragmented forests the edges experience changes in microclimatic conditions, which are referred to as “abiotic edge effect”, and differ according to geographical orientation and season. These microclimatic changes could ...

1. Geographical orientation affects the magnitude of microclimatic edge effects, mainly by altering the exposure to solar radiation. There is considerable evidence about the influence of microclimatic edge effects on ...

In forest fragments, microclimatic conditions differ between interior andforest edges and also vary with geographical orientation. These microclimatic variationscould affect plant-insect food webs and the ecological processes ...

The ecological impact of lianas in the edges of tropical forest areas is widely recognised; however, the edge influence on the liana community and its relationship with trees in biomes of open vegetation require further ...

We consider independent edge percolation models on Z, with edge occupation probabilities. We prove that oriented percolation occurs when beta > 1 provided p is chosen sufficiently close to 1, answering a question posed in ...

In this paper, a rotating washer electrode was used to simulate the industrial conditions of strip edges during electrogalvanizing. Using this experimental setup, morphology and texture of the zinc deposits and dendrites ...

This article presents an edge-corner detector, implemented in the realm of the GEIST project (an Computer Aided Touristic Information System) to extract the information of straight edges and their intersections (image ...