Omni directional mobile robots have been popularly employed in several applications especially in soccer player robots considered in Robocup competitions. However, Omni directional navigation system, Omni-vision system and solenoid kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. This situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensi...

It has been clarified that deformation and annealing of martensite starting structure can produce ultrafine-grained structure in low carbon steel.  This study aims to investigate the texture evolution and mechanical properties of samples with martensite structure deformed by two different forging processes. The martensitic steel samples were forged by plane strain compression and multi-directio...

Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve (MMFR) in Peninsular Malaysia is under systematic management since 1902 and still considered as the best managed mangrove forest in the world. The present study on silvimetrics assessed the ongoing MMFR forest management, which includes a first thinning after 15 years, a second thinning after 20 years and clear-felling of 30-year old forest blocks, for its efficie...

Here, Ω is a bounded domain with sufficiently smooth (e.g. Lipschitz) boundary ∂Ω and ∂/∂ν denotes the (outward) normal derivative on ∂Ω. We assume that the function φ :R→R, defined by φ(s)= α(|s|)s if s = 0 and 0 otherwise, is an increasing homeomorphism from R to R. Let Φ(s)= ∫ s 0 φ(t)dt, s∈R. Then Φ is a Young function. We denote by LΦ the Orlicz space associated withΦ and by ‖ · ‖Φ the usu...

The simplest illustration of a steerable function is the first-order directional derivative of a two-dimensional Gaussian. Although we will only consider Gaussians, the principle of steerability may be extended to any differentiable function. For notational simplicity we will consider a unit-variant Gaussian and ignore the 1 p2 scaling constant: g(x; y) = e (x2+y2)=2: (1) Lets begin by consider...

This paper proposes statistical analysis of phase-only correlation functions with phase-spectrum differences following wrapped distributions. We first assume phase-spectrum differences between two signals to be random variables following a linear distribution. Next, based on directional statistics, we convert the linear distribution into a wrapped distribution by wrapping the linear distributio...

The boundary value problem for the Laplace equation outside several cracks in a plane is studied. The jump of the solution of the Laplace equation and the boundary condition containing the jump of its normal derivative are specified on the cracks. The problem has unique classical solution under certain conditions. The new integral representation for the unique solution of this problem is obtain...

Selective logging in the tropics results carbon emissions but also creates favourable environmental conditions for regeneration of tree species and recovery. We evaluate recovery biomass selectively logged forests impacted by timber harvesting on Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Fieldwork was conducted two annual cutting areas 2001 2009. Plots were established felling, skidding log landing sites. Reg...

The non-differentiability and implicit definition of boundary of production possibility set (PPS) in data envelopment analysis (DEA) are two important difficulties for obtaining directional characteristics, including different elasticity measures and marginal rates of substitution. Also, imposing weight restrictions in DEA models have some shortcomings and misunderstandings. In this paper we ut...