The leveling measurements have been traditionally made for the monitoring of ground subsidence, but this technique is known to be not timeand cost-effective. Instead, GPS has been recently used as one of the most convenient and precise techniques for the geodetic applications, in terms of high accuracy monitoring. A GPS monitoring network consisting of 52 GPS stations was set up in Yunlin Count...

Transfemoral prostheses have traditionally sought to emulate symmetry in their designs. Using a symmetric prosthesis for a physically asymmetric unilateral transfemoral amputee typically causes asymmetric gait patterns. This research study investigates the effects of prostheses with lower knee heights than the intact knee and a pilot study of the combined effects of adding distal mass with lowe...

The method of using Global Positioning System-leveling data to obtain orthometric heights has been well studied. A simple formulation for the weighted least squares problem has been presented in an earlier work. This formulation allows one directly employing the errors-in-variables models which completely descript the covariance matrices of the observables. However, an important question that w...

After the failure of an element in a structure, its loads should be redistributed on the other elements and the structure must provide some new paths to carry the load. If such new load paths are not provided, collapse progression will begin in the structure. As the beginning of progressive collapse in a structure is more sensitive to the missing of an element, the location of that element is m...