Optimal Directions

Future Directions for the Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation (OR4KT) Tool: Response to Recent Commentaries

Optimizing Window Size and its Sunshade in Four Main Directions of Residential Buildings in Mild Climate by Integrating Thermal and Lighting Analysis

As part of sustainable architecture principles and practices, designers need to define building's architectural requirements based on climatic conditions, environmental preservation and reduction in energy consumption. The natural energy sources such as solar radiation affect thermal and lighting performances of buildings depending on its facade characteristics. Traditionally, buildings thermal...

EIGENVECTORS OF COVARIANCE MATRIX FOR OPTIMAL DESIGN OF STEEL FRAMES

In this paper, the discrete method of eigenvectors of covariance matrix has been used to weight minimization of steel frame structures. Eigenvectors of Covariance Matrix (ECM) algorithm is a robust and iterative method for solving optimization problems and is inspired by the CMA-ES method. Both of these methods use covariance matrix in the optimization process, but the covariance matrix calcula...

Extremely efficient and deterministic approach to generating optimal ordering of diffusion MRI measurements.

PURPOSE Diffusion MRI measurements are typically acquired sequentially with unit gradient directions that are distributed uniformly on the unit sphere. The ordering of the gradient directions has significant effect on the quality of dMRI-derived quantities. Even though several methods have been proposed to generate optimal orderings of gradient directions, these methods are not widely used in c...

Singular Integrals along N Directions in R

We prove optimal bounds in L2(R2) for the maximal operator obtained by taking a singular integral along N arbitrary directions in the plane. We also give a new proof for the optimal L2 bound for the single scale Kakeya maximal function in the plane.

Determining the optimal build directions in layered manufacturing

Determining the optimal build directions is one of the most critical factors in RP processes because it affects on the build time, support structure, surface quality as well as the cost. The previous methods could handle simple parts or limited objective functions. Moreover the methods with multiple objective functions, had abstracted them into a single fitness function in which the characteris...