Mathematical morphology Essays

  • How to work concessions

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    My first job was working at the Carmike Cinemas at the Summit. My main duty, among others at the theater, was working the concession stands. It was an entertaining job. It took me awhile to learn the ropes, but once I did, it was smooth sailing. There were several times the concessionaires stands were run by only one person. While it is fun working in a concession stand, I couldn’t forget about my responsibilities. A rush of thousands of people is a daunting task, but it will go smoothly if my station

  • Phrenology

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    we can tell how dominant this trait would be in a person’s life by the size of the piece of the brain. We have since proven that this theory is not true. Franz Joseph Gall is considered to be the founder of the direct scientific link between the morphology of the skull and personality traits. Gall was one of the first scientists to consider the brain the home of all mental activities. His main work was called The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular

  • The Science and Myth behind Phrenology

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    construct this parodied scene, which depicts Phrenology as a baseless science; however, the practice is not wholly baseless. The founder of Phrenology, Austrian physician Franz Joseph Gall, determined the existence of a relationship “between the morphology of the skull and the human character” (Peter 1). Franz asserted that the brain is responsible for a human’s mental capacities. He attempted to prove this assessment by making statements—found in his chief work, The Anatomy and Physiology of the

  • Bamboo

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    grasses. The sub-family Bambusoideae, is certainly no exception. These are the bamboos. Consisting of 75 genera and over 1000 species, these unique plants have played a diverse and important role in the development of society, as we know it today. Morphology The bamboo plant is constructed of a system of segmented axes. This is depicted by the regular internodal lengths and prominent nodes (McClure 10). They resemble telescoping antennas, but at a constant diameter. The culm is the above ground

  • Identifying Two Unknown Species of Bacteria

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    Bacteria Materials and Methods Week 1, Day 1 (10 November 2000) The first day an unknown sample was assigned to each group of students. The first test applied was a gram stain to test for gram positive or gram-negative bacteria. The morphology of the two types of bacteria was viewed under the microscope and recorded. Then the sample was put on agar plates using the quadrant streak method for isolation. There were three agar plates; one was incubated at room temperature, the second at

  • Theoretical Approaches to Speech Production

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    Theoretical Approaches to Speech Production There are two main theories of Speech production, Spreading Activation Theory - SAT (Dell, 1986: Dell & O’Seaghdha, 1991) and Word- Form Encoding by Activation and Verification – WEAVER++ (Levelt et al., 1989: 1999). The SAT theory was devised by Dell (1986) then revised by Dell & O’Seaghda (1991). The theory works on a 4 level connectionist model: parallel and dynamic. The Semantic level is the meaning of what is going to be said. The Syntactic

  • Phrenology

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    and every way...” (p. 13). The following will provide a description of Phrenology and its implications. A pseudo-science developed by Austrian physician Franz Joseph Gall in the early 1800s, Phrenology is in its most basic form the study of the morphology of the human skull and its relation to human character. Gall’s “doctrine of Phrenology” (www.134.184.33.110/phreno/) is based upon five key principles, which were first presented in his work The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General

  • Multi-regional Continuity: The Fossil Evidence

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    terms “modern'; and “archaic'; in reference to skull morphology. “Modern'; features in skull morphology as the word is used here include thin cranial walls, small supraorbital ridges, small teeth, small eye sockets, broad, flat foreheads, large cranial volume (above 1200 cc.), low prognathism in the area of the lower face, and a high, vaulted shape in the area of the cranium. “Archaic'; features in skull morphology include thick cranial walls, heavy supraorbital ridges, large

  • Durkheim and Levi-Strauss and Thought

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    thought are themselves the results of social conditions. “If the categories are essentially collective representations … they translate states of the collectivity, first and foremost. They depend upon the way the collectivity is organized, upon its morphology, its religious, moral, and economic institutions, and so on.” (Durkheim 15) He then takes up the remainder of the apriorist narrative; these categories are the foundations of thought and it is only ... ... middle of paper ... ... ordered mind

  • A New Species of Whale

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    whale, another species of the baleen whale. However, this carcass was much smaller in size. After comparing DNA data of the external morphology, osteology, and mitochondrial, scientists were able to classify all they found into a new and different species. This new species, which was named after a Japanese cetologist, H. Omura, has a unique cranial morphology and a small number of baleen plates. Another wonderful discovery was made while doing this research as well, that was that one of the

  • Police Mathematics

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    all the evidence left at the crime scene and work backwards to deduce what happened and who did it”(Budd1). In order for the officer to find out how fast the car was going at the scene he needs to solve an inverse problem. “Inverse problems are mathematical detective problems. An example of an inverse problem is trying to find the shape of an object only knowing its shadows ”(Budd1). In addition, a day on the job of being a cop. There is a car accident and the officer job is to figure out if the car

  • Turning A Profit As A Contractor

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    One of the many books I have read about running a construction business and how to perform and create successful financial sheets to make sure your business is doing well is through a book I read this semester called, A Simple Guide to Turning a Profit as a Contractor, by Melanie Hodgdon and Leslie Shiner. Some background about the book is about a man who owns a residential construction remodeling business who is not doing financially well as managing and keeping track of the jobs with old school

  • Comparing The Rule Of Thirds And The Golden Ratio

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    In the field of art, artists always use techniques and methods to make their work better. The ‘Rule of Thirds’ and The ‘Golden Ratio’ are amongst the most important techniques in artwork. The ‘Golden Ratio’ is an ancient mathematical method. Its founder is the ancient Greek Pythagoras. (Richard Fitzpatrick (translator) ,2007. Euclid's Elements of Geometry.) The ‘Golden Ratio’ was first mentioned 2300 years ago, in Euclid's "Elements" .It was defined as: a line segment is divided into two

  • Place Value Misconceptions

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    Countless time teachers encounter students that struggle with mathematical concepts trough elementary grades. Often, the struggle stems from the inability to comprehend the mathematical concept of place value. “Understanding our place value system is an essential foundation for all computations with whole numbers” (Burns, 2010, p. 20). Students that recognize the composition of the numbers have more flexibility in mathematical computation. “Not only does the base-ten system allow us to express arbitrarily

  • Mathematical Investigation

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    Mathematical Investigation In this report we were asked a number of questions about the solving of magic squares. The final goal was to fill a magic square in correctly. The information I was given was about the history of magic squares and information on how they work. I did not need any extra information. Investigation: What I had to do for this investigation was to fill in a magic square correctly. I chose to do this by answering the questions given to me and using my answers to

  • Husserl’s Conceptions of Formal Mathematics

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    describe. Thus, for formal geometry it is irrelevant whether the objects described are physical objects in actual space, or n-tuples of real nu... ... middle of paper ... ... Bouvier, Bonn, 1981. Tieszen, Richard L. “Mathematical Intuition: Phenomenology and Mathematical Knowledge”. Kluwer, Boston, 1989. Zalta, Ed. “Frege’s Logic, Theorem and Foundations for Arithmetic”. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege-logic/ Footnotes 1. Lohmar, p. 14 2. However

  • Leonhard Euler, a Brief Biography

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    " 9 December 2013. . Article. 9 December 2013. O'Connor, J J and EF Robertson. "Leonhard Euler." September 1998. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Euler.html. Biography. 9 February 2014. Patterson, Simon. "The Euler International Mathematical Institute." n.d. http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/EulerBio.html. Article. 8 February 2014. Stocksill, John. "Leonhard Euler (Pronounced "Oiler") 1707-1783." 2000. . Article. 10 December 2013.

  • Mathematical Modeling Process for Real Situations

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    expensive to build and study than the full-size airplane. Similarly, the mathematical model in equation (1.1) allows a quick identification of profit expectations without actually requiring the manager to produce and sell x units. Models also have the advantage of reducing the risk associated with experimenting with the real situation. In particular, bad designs or bad decisions that cause the model airplane to crash or a mathematical model to project a $10,000 loss can be avoided in the real situation

  • Essay On Sensitivity Analysis

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    1.9.1 Sensitivity analysis of the model Sensitivity analysis is the study of how the uncertainty in the output of a mathematical model or system (numerical or otherwise) can be apportioned to different sources of uncertainty in its inputs. A related practice is uncertainty analysis, which has a greater focus on uncertainty quantification and its propagation. Ideally, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis should be run in tandem. As the optimization method provides the best set of inputs for optimum

  • HDL Coder Implementation for Luo Rudy Phase 1 Excitation Modeling

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    This paper presents the study of non-linear dynamic of cardiac excitation based on Luo Rudy Phase I (LR-I) model towards numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) responsible for cardiac excitation on FPGA. As computational modeling needs vast of simulation time, a real-time hardware implementation using FPGA could be the solution as it provides high configurability and performance. For rapid prototyping, the MATLAB Simulink offers a link with the FPGA which is an HDL Coder that