This paper addresses the problem of tracking a dim moving point target in a sequence of IR images. The proposed tracking system, based on the track-before-detect (TBD) approach, is designed to track and detect dim maneuvering targets from an image sequence under low SNR conditions; a dynamic programming algorithm (DPA) is used to process the frames in the sequence. This paper deals with the pra...

Children's social and emotional adjustment at age 8 were examined in relation to attachment security, parenting style, setting conditions, and social and emotional adjustment at age 4. Seventy-nine children participated in videotaped interaction sessions with their mothers and with unfamiliar peers at the two ages. Data were derived from videotape coding, mother questionnaires, and child sociom...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the moderating influence of rural residence on the associations between health locus of control (HLC) beliefs and psychological well-being. METHOD Two hundred and twenty-four breast cancer patients were surveyed. RESULTS The results revealed that rurality interacted with HLC beliefs in predicting psychological adjustment. The pattern indicated that, whereas end...

In this study, trajectory control of the Variable Loaded Servo (VLS) system is performed by using a Fuzzy Logic based Iterative Learning Control (ILC) method. In the study, a Iterative Learning PID (IL-PID) Controller is used as the iterative learning control structure. Also, a fuzzy adjustment mechanism has been added to the control system for specify the initial parameter of the IL-PID contro...

In this paper, two classes of discrete myopic adjustment dynamics are mainly considered under some fairly general and reasonable assumptions in an oligopolistic industry where all firms produce a homogeneous product. Hosomatsu’s lemma is firstly generalized in the sense that a necessary and sufficient condition for stability in a variety of discrete systems is derived for a much larger range of...

Airborne laser scanning (ALS) requires GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System; e.g. GPS) and an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) for determining the dynamically changing orientation of the scanning system. Because of small but existing instabilities of the involved parts especially the mounting calibration a strip adjustment is necessary in most cases. In order to realize this adjustment in a ...

Process monitoring and process adjustment strategies are two important parts of the process improvement methods, and they are often considered separately but should be integrated together. Integrated moving average (IMA) model is the most common disturbance model, and step shift model is one type of more complicated disturbance model that often exists in many real applications. In this paper we...

A powerful parametric spectral estimation technique, 2D-ARMA (Auto Regressive Moving Average) modeling, has been applied to contrast transfer function (CTF) detection in electron microscopy. Parametric techniques such as AR (auto regressive) and ARMA models allow a more exact determination of the CTF than traditional methods based only on the Fourier Transform (FT). Previous works revealed that...

Negative Binomial (or Poisson-gamma) model has been used extensively by highway safety analysts because it can accommodate the over-dispersion, often exhibited in crash data. However, it has been reported in the literature that the maximum likelihood estimate of the dispersion parameter of NB models can be significantly affected when the data are characterized by small sample size and low sampl...