The single-index varying-coefficient models include many types of popular semiparametric models, i.e. single-index models, partially linear models, varying-coefficient models, and so on. In this paper, we first establish the semiparametric efficiency bound for the single-index varying-coefficient model, and develop an estimation method based on the efficient estimating equations. Although our m...

soil water retention curve is one of the crucial input parameters in any modeling study on water flow and solute transport in soils. direct measurement of soil water retention curve is time-consuming and costly. alternatively, pedotransfer functions (ptfs) may be used to indirectly estimate the soil water retention curve from easily measured soil properties. many equations for the soil water re...

soil hydraulic properties such as soil water characteristic curve are necessary prerequisite for modeling water movement and solute transport. direct methods of estimating these hydraulic properties are time consuming and costly. indirect methods, such as pedotransfer functions, estimate the hydraulic parameters using easy-to-measure soil properties like particle size distributions, bulk densit...

In the present study, a modified Structure Function was introduced. In this modified Structure Function model, the coefficient of model was computed dynamically base on the coherent structure in the flow field. The ability of this Modified Structure Function was investigated for complex flow over a square cylinder in free stream and a low aspect ratio cylinder confined in a channel. The Results...

An efficient coefficient quantization scheme is described for minimizing the costfor implementing the fixed parallel linear-phase finite-impulse response (FIR) filters in themodified Farrow structure introduced by Vesma and Saramäki for generating FIR filters withan adjustable fractional delay. The implementation costs under consideration are the minimumnumber of adders and subt...

This paper proposes a modified boundary condition to improve the room-acoustic prediction accuracy of a diffusion equation model. Previous boundary conditions for the diffusion equation model have certain limitations which restrict its application to a certain number of room types. The boundary condition employing the Sabine absorption coefficient [V. Valeau et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 150...