[1] The moisture transport integrated over the depth of the atmosphere (0) is estimated over oceans using satellite data. The transport is the product of the precipitable water and an equivalent velocity (ue), which, by definition, is the depth-averaged wind velocity weighted by humidity. An artificial neural network is employed to construct a relation between the surface wind velocity measured...

The main problem in improving the tracking performance of permanent magnet linear synchronous motors is the presence of force ripple caused by mismatched current excitation. This paper presents a method to optimize the current excitation of the motors in order to generate smooth force. The optimized phase current waveforms produce minimal ohmic losses and maximize motor efficiency. The current ...

One of the most efficient ways of generating goal-directed walking motions is synthesising the final motion based on footprints. Nevertheless, current implementations have not examined the generation of continuous motion based on footprints, where different behaviours can be generated automatically. Therefore, in this paper a flexible approach for footprint-driven locomotion composition is pres...

We compare new observations on the kinematic characteristics of the damped Lyα systems against results from numerical SPH simulations to test the predictions of hierarchical galaxy formation. This exercise is particularly motivated by recent numerical results on the cross-section of damped Lyα systems. Our analysis focuses on the velocity widths ∆v of ≈ 50 low-ion absorption profiles from our s...

We report on the retrieval of directional sea-roughness (the full directional mean square slope, including direction and isotropy) through inversion of Global Navigation Satellite System Reflections (GNSS-R) data collected during an experimental flight at 1 km altitude. The emphasis is on the utilization of the entire Delay-Doppler Map (DDM) in order to infer ocean roughness directional paramet...

We present the results of a VLT observing program carried out in service mode using FORS1 on ANTU in Long Slit mode to determine the optical velocities of nearby low surface brightness galaxies. As part of our program of service observations we obtained long-slit spectra of several members of the Phoenix dwarf galaxy from which we derive an optical helio-centric radial velocity of −13 ± 9 km/s....

Doppler carotid velocity determinations were related to hemispheric blood flow measurements by the Xe inhalation method in 28 patients with psychiatric disorders without arterial pathology and in 2 normal subjects. Results from 39 double determinations showed a product-moment correlation of 0.88 (p < 0.001) between right hemispheric blood flow and right internal carotid end-diastolic Telocity. ...

The main control problem of visual servoing is to cope with the delay introduced by image acquisition and image processing. This delay is the main reason for limited tracking velocity and acceleration. Predictive algorithms are one solution to handle the delay. The drawback of prediction algorithms is the bad prediction behavior for the discontinuity in the target motion, for example, a velocit...