It has been recently discovered by Bell, Heinle and Levandovskyy that a large class of algebras, including the ubiquitous G-algebras, are finite factorization domains (FFD for short). Utilizing this result, we contribute an algorithm to find all distinct factorizations of a given element f ∈ G, where G is any G-algebra, with minor assumptions on the underlying field. Moreover, the property of b...

With the increase of requirement for improving the safety of night driving, automatic pedestrian detection has received more and more attraction. This paper mainly introduces a pedestrian detection method in infrared images. Base on the properties of infrared images, we present a two-step pedestrian detection method including pedestrian candidate selection and validation. The first step is loca...

This paper presents a non-interior point method for a frictionless contact problem in the large deformation, where we can exploit the warm start condition in an incremental path-following method such as the arc-length method. We propose a novel reformulation of the nonlinear complementarity problem based on the smoothed Fischer–Burmeister function, in which the smoothing parameter is considered...

Remains of mammoths in Arctic East Siberia, where there is not sufficient sunlight over the year for the growth of the plants on which these animals feed, indicate that the latitude of this region was lower before the end of the Pleistocene than now. Reconstructing this geographic pole shift, we introduce a massive object, which moved in an extremely eccentric orbit and was hot from tidal work ...

There has recently been an increased emphasis on reducing energy consumption in manufacturing, driven by the fluctuations in energy costs and the growing importance given to environmental impact of manufactured goods. Lots of attention has been given to the reduction of machine tools energy consumption, as they require large amounts of energy to perform manufacturing tasks. One area that has re...

Separate vector expressions for the rate of change of direction of the potential temperature gradient vector resulting from the geostrophic vorticity and geostrophic deformation, referred to as QVR and QDR, respectively, are derived. The evolution of the thermal structure and forcing for quasigeostrophic vertical motion in an occluded cyclone are investigated by examining the distributions of Q...