Minimum Norm Quadratic Unbiased Estimation (MINQUE) is one of the commonly used methods for the estimation of variance-covariance components. The MINQUE procedure has been successfully used to estimate the variance-covariance components of GPS observations. However, the MINQUE procedure is a big computational burden, and the requirement of having an equal number of variancecovariance components...

The second-order Arnoldi (SOAR) procedure is an algorithm for computing an orthonormal basis of the second-order Krylov subspace. It has found applications in solving quadratic eigenvalue problems and model order reduction of second-order dynamical systems among others. Unfortunately, the SOAR procedure can be numerically unstable. The two-level orthogonal Arnoldi (TOAR) procedure has been prop...

The present paper studies a structure consisting of a periodic metallic grating, coated on a dielectric spacer atop an opaque metal substrate, using coherent thermal emission source in the infrared region. It has been theoretically demonstrated that by exciting surface magnetic polaritons between metallic gratings and an opaque metallic film, separated by a dielectric spacer, large emissivity p...

Vacuum perturbations of the Kerr metric can be reconstructed from the corresponding perturbation in either of the two Weyl scalars ψ0 or ψ4, using a procedure described by Chrzanowski and others in the 1970s. More recent work, motivated within the context of self-force physics, extends the procedure to metric perturbations sourced by a particle in a bound geodesic orbit. However, the existing p...

This paper presents a rigorous numerical method for the study and verification of global dynamics. In particular, this method produces a conjugacy or semi-conjugacy between an attractor for the Swift-Hohenberg equation and a model system. The procedure involved relies on first verifying bifurcation diagrams produced via continuation methods, including proving the existence and uniqueness of com...

In this paper, a new approach, namely the optimal variational iteration method (OVIM) was proposed to investigate oscillators with fractional-power nonlinearities. It was illustrated that this approach is very effective and convenient and does not require linearization or small parameter. Unlike other classical iteration methods, only one iteration leads to highly accurate results, due to a rig...

Algebraic soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon codes delivers promising coding gains over conventional hard-decision decoding. The main computational steps in algebraic soft-decoding (as well as Sudan-type list-decoding) are bivariate interpolation and factorization. We discuss a new computational technique, based upon re-encoding and coordinate transformation, that significantly reduces the ...