This work proposed a new method for a gravity compensation using the noncircular pulley, cable driving, and spring balancer. The noncircular pulley is arranged in the front of one transmission chain. When the mechanism apply this method for the gravity compensation of some multi-DOF and multilink manipulator, it can be achieved that a perfect gravity balance and less number of springs. To obtai...

These studies explore elementary-school-aged children's ability to evaluate circular explanations and whether they respond to receiving weak explanations by expressing interest in additional learning. In the first study, 6-, 8-, and 10-year-olds (n = 53) heard why questions about unfamiliar animals. For each question, they rated the quality of single explanations and later selected the best exp...

This paper focuses on the localization methods for multiple sources received by widely separated arrays. The conventional two-step methods extract measurement parameters and then estimate the positions from them. In the contrast to the conventional two-step methods, direct position determination (DPD) localizes transmitters directly from original sensor outputs without estimating intermediate p...

BACKGROUND The spatial scan statistic proposed by Kulldorff has been applied to a wide variety of epidemiological studies for cluster detection. This scan statistic, however, uses a circular window to define the potential cluster areas and thus has difficulty in correctly detecting actual noncircular clusters. A recent proposal by Duczmal and Assunção for detecting noncircular clusters is shown...

In this paper, we propose a noncircular-parallel factor (NC-PARAFAC) algorithm for two-dimensional direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of noncircular signals for acoustic vector-sensor array. The proposed algorithm enhances the angle estimation performance via utilizing the noncircularity of the signals, and it can be suitable for arbitrary array subjected to unknown locations and achieve aut...

A series of model tests were performed to investigate the load-bearing mechanism a mined railway tunnel lining under water pressure. To characteristics different types linings, fully closed pressure exerting device for noncircular section was invented. large-scale test (1:30) combined and soil pressures conducted mechanical characteristics, deformation, stress distribution, crack development pr...

We extend the common theme of random Apollonian packing of circles to consider orientable grains with a noncircular shape. Systems of up to 10(6) grains are examined for a range of polygonal and elliptical shapes using both the random Apollonian packing model and the new rotational random Apollonian packing model which takes into account the extra rotational degree of freedom of noncircular gra...

An online blind extraction algorithm, suitable for the generality of complex-valued sources, both complex circular and noncircular, is introduced. This is achieved based on higher order statistics of latent sources, and using the deflation approach. The novelty of the proposed approach is that the cost function is designed so as to be robust to both circular and noncircular second order additiv...