AN HYBRIDIZED GEOMETRIC ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL-KERNEL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS MODEL FOR MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION  

2012-05-01
Segmentation is an aspect of computer vision that deals with partitioning of an image into homogeneous region. Medical image segmentation is an indispensable tool for medical image diagnoses. Geometric active ...

TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF SOIL WATER STORAGE IN A DRIP-IRRIGATED TOMATO FIELD UNDER DIFFERENT WATER REGIMES  

2017-12-21
Soil Water Storage (SWS) in an agricultural soil profile is an important parameter for a rational management of any crop. Sampling field soil with a view to estimating its soil ...

THE EFFECT OF TUBER MATURITY ON SOME FOOD QUALITY FACTORS OF WHITE YAM (DIOSCOREA ROTUNDATA)  

2005-11-25
In this study the effect of stage of maturity and storage of yam tubers on some quality factors were investigated with the view to determining when yam tuber is matured ...

OPTIMAL PLACEMENT AND SIZING OF STATIC SYNCHRONOUS SERIES COMPENSATOR USING FIREFLY ALGORITHM  

2021-10-03
Transmission system occupies and plays a leading role in the bulk delivery of generated power to load centers over a relatively long distance. However, this system suffers from inevitable power ...

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENHANCED OKUMURA-HATA PATH LOSS MODEL FOR LONG TERM EVOLUTION AT 2300 MHz FREQUENCY  

2019-06-01
The ability to predict the quality of signal received at a particular location from a given wireless base station subsystem and at a particular frequency in a mobile radio network ...

CONFlNEMENT AND BAND OFFSETS IN RELATION TO OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF GaAs/AlGaAs HETEROSTRUCTURE  

2006-08-01
The confinement and band offsets in relation to optical properties of GaAs/AIGaAs heterostructure through computational approach have been investigated. A modified KronigPenney model was adopted. This was done by the ...

COMMUNICATIVE IMPACT OF DESIGN ELEMENTS ON PRODUCT PACKAGES IN OSOGBO, OSUN STATE NIGERIA  

2018-03-20
Product package design acts as a communication commercial for brands, prior to purchase and after. Communicative packaging design elements and their impact on consumers thus, became a relevant issue in ...

EFFECTS OF PECTINASE ON QUALITY ATTRIBUTES OF JUICE PRODUCED FROM DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF MANGO AND PAWPAW FRUITS  

2017-12-27
The production of mango and pawpaw juice is usually characterized with high percentage of pulp which are conventionally reduced with enzymatic treatment in processing. However, the use of pectinase in ...

INVESTIGATION OF LOSS REDUCTION IN ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITH INCORPORATION OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATORS  

2018-02-26
Distributed Generators (DG) are electrical sources connected to the power network located to consumer's side but very small when compared with the centralized power plant. Installing these generators to reduce ...

DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED CLONAL SELECTION ALGORITHM FOR FEATURE LEVEL FUSION OF MULTI BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS  

2017-12-27
Feature level fusion is the combination of biometric information contained in the extracted features of biometric images. Most existing feature level fusion algorithms are less effective owing to their poor ...