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- Kasedde, Hillary, et al.
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Mineral recovery from Lake Katwe brines using isothermal evaporation
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Mine Water Association Annual Conference 2013. - : IMWA International Mine Water Association. - 9780615793856 ; , s. 855-860
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Lake Katwe is a saline lake within the East African Rift system in Western Uganda, with a rich source of mineral salts. The present work aims at evaluating possibilities of future salt extraction from the lake deposit. An isothermal evaporation experiment was conducted on the lake brines. The precipitated salts were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) methods. Various economic salts such as thenardite, gypsum, mirabilite, burkeite, hanksite, anhydrite, trona, halite, nahcolite, thermonatrite, and soda ash precipitate from the lake brines. The experiments also reveal the sequence of mineral salt precipitation in the order sulfates→chlorides→carbonates.
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- Landström, Anders, et al.
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Adaptive Morphological Filtering of Incomplete Data
- 2014
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Ingår i: 2013 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2013). - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Communications Society. - 9781479921263
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We demonstrate how known convolution techniques for uncertain data can be used to set the shapes of structuring elements in adaptive mathematical morphology, enabling robust morphological processing of partially occluded or otherwise incomplete data. Results are presented for filtering of both gray-scale images containing missing data and 3D profile data where information is missing due to occlusion effects. The latter demonstrates the intended use of the method: enhancement of crack signatures in a surface inspection system for casted steel.The presented method is able to disregard unreliable data in a systematic and robust way, enabling adaptive morphological processing of the available information while avoiding any false edges or other unwanted features introduced by the values of faulty pixels.
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- Landström, Anders, et al.
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Image reconstruction by prioritized incremental normalized convolution
- 2011
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Ingår i: Image analysis. - Berlin : Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology/Springer Verlag. - 9783642212260 ; , s. 176-185
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A priority-based method for pixel reconstruction and incrementalhole filling in incomplete images and 3D surface data is presented.The method is primarily intended for reconstruction of occluded areasin 3D surfaces and makes use of a novel prioritizing scheme, based on apixelwise defined confidence measure, that determines the order in whichpixels are iteratively reconstructed. The actual reconstruction of individualpixels is performed by interpolation using normalized convolution.The presented approach has been applied to the problem of reconstructing3D surface data of a rock pile as well as randomly sampled imagedata. It is concluded that the method is not optimal in the latter case,but the results show an improvement to ordinary normalized convolutionwhen applied to the rock data and are in this case comparable to thoseobtained from normalized convolution using adaptive neighborhood sizes.
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- Landström, Anders, et al.
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Sub-millimeter crack detection in casted steel using color photometric stereo
- 2014
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Ingår i: 2013 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2013. - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Communications Society. - 9781479921287
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A novel method for automated inspection of small corner cracks in casted steel is presented, using a photometric stereo setup consisting of two light sources of different colors in conjunction with a line-scan camera. The resulting image is separated into two different reflection patterns which are used to cancel shadow effects and estimate the surface gradient. Statistical methods are used to first segment the image and then provide an estimated crack probability for each segmented region. Results show that true cracks are successfully assigned a high crack probability, while only a minor proportion of other regions cause similar probability values. About 80% of the cracks present in the segmented regions are given a crack probability higher than 70%, while the corresponding number for other non-crack regions is only 5%. The segmented regions contain over 70% of the manually identified crack pixels. We thereby provide proof-of-concept for the presented method.
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- Landström, Anders, et al.
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Voronoi-based ISD and site density characteristics for mobile networks
- 2012
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Ingår i: 2012 IEEE 76th Vehicular Technology Conference. - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Communications Society. - 9781467318815
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- Inter-Site Distance (ISD) is a common measure for characterizing the site density in a mobile network However, obtaining a good estimation of the ISD for a real world network is not trivial since the physical layout is usually quite more complex than a perfect theoretical hexagonal grid, due to a number of unavoidable factors such as site availability and traffic density. Voronoi diagrams have been suggested for approximating cells from network layouts, providing a method for partitioning the covered area into cells defined by the proximity to the given set of sites. This yields a framework for site coverage approximation based on the actual site distribution, rather than an underlying theoretical model.We present a novel measure, based on Voronoi diagrams, for characterizing the site density of a cellular network and provide a comparison to the more traditional ISD measure. This measure improves capacity assessments and modeling of real networks.
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- Lundberg, Lars, et al.
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Applying military medical training models on the training of civilian ambulance nurses
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The pre-mission training of military medical personnel is based on simulation, using either moulage patients or full-scale simulation manikins. Furthermore, the training is preferably conducted in a realistic environment, including the logistic procedures required. Summary of work: The military approach to medical training has been considered interesting to apply on the postgraduate and continuing education for civilian ambulance nurses. One MD (professor) and one RN (associate professor) are now working part-time for the Armed Forces Centre for Defence Medicine and part-time for the University of Borås. A general aim is to improve the trauma education for civilian ambulance nurses, including prehospital procedures for command & control, and by introducing selected military techniques such as tourniquets and haemostatic agents to stop life-threatening bleedings also in civilian practice. Conclusions: We have a reason to believe that this recently initiated collaboration between military medicine and civilian prehospital medicine is mutually beneficial. The civilian Emergency Medical Services will become better trained and prepared, while the Armed Forces are likely to get a larger recruitment base of skilled medical personnel for future service in international missions. Take-home messages: Collaboration between organisations with similar interests, in this case the prehospital management of trauma victims, is likely to be mutually beneficial.
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