the low earth orbiting (leo) satellites are widely used for geosciences applications. for most applications, precise orbital information of the satellites is required. a combination of the in suite observations and dynamic orbit yields the optimum solution. in order to obtain the combined optimal solution, one needs to analytically or numerically propagate the state vector epoch by an epoch bas...

The Isogeometric Analysis (IA) method is applied for structural topology optimization instead of the finite element method. For this purpose, the material density is considered as a continuous function throughout the design domain and approximated by the Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) basis functions. The coordinates of control points which are also used for constructing the density func...

Real cubic algebraic surfaces may be described by either implicit or parametric equations. Each of these representations has strengths and weaknesses and have been used extensively in computer graphics. Applications involving both representations include the efficient computation of surface intersections, and triangulation of curved surfaces. One particularly useful representation is the ration...

This study evaluates a methodology for using IKONOS stereo imagery to determine the height and position of buildings in dense residential areas. The method was tested on three selected sites in an area of 8.5 km long by 7 km wide and covered by two overlapping (97% overlap) IKONOS images. The images were oriented using rational function models in addition to ground control points. Buildings wer...

we discuss whether finiteness properties of a profinite group $g$ can be deduced from the coefficients of the probabilisticzeta function $p_g(s)$. in particular we prove that if $p_g(s)$ is rational and all but finitely many non abelian composition factors of $g$ are isomorphic to $psl(2,p)$ for some prime $p$, then $g$ contains only finitely many maximal subgroups.

measurement of the loads exerted on the limb is a fundamental part of designing of an assistive device, which has been done by using strain gauges or a transducer. although calculation of loads applied on an orthosis coefficients achieved from calibration is a standard way, most of researchers determined the loads based on available equations. therefore, the aim of this research is finding the ...