Radiometric observations using single dishes and interferometers are responsible for most detections of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effects. This article discusses the techniques used in measuring the thermal and kinematic SZ effects in this way, the pitfalls that may arise, the systematic errors in the data, and the resulting uncertainties in the interpretation of the results. Since these unce...

This paper uses the kinematic mapping into the image space of spherical displacements to design a cooperating spherical robot system for workpiece orientating. The kinematic chain formed b y the cooperating robots grasping the workpiece forms a multi degree of freedom closed chain which is also known as a robotic mechanism. The spherical robots considered are spherical RPR open chains and they ...

Precise measurements of the mass and width of the W boson are carried out in e + e − collisions at Lep, by kinematic reconstruction of the invariant mass distributions of W + W − → qq ′ ℓν ℓ and W + W − → qq ′ qq ′ candidate events. The most recent combination of such results from Aleph, Delphi, L3 and Opal uses approximately 82% of the final Lep2 integrated luminosity and is preliminary. The m...

We describe a calculation of the fully-differential decay rate of a top quark to a massless b-quark and a lepton pair at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Technical details of the calculation are discussed and selected results for kinematic distributions are shown.

The limits imposed by the classical cosmological tests on closed and open FRW universes driven by adiabatic matter creation are investigated. Exact expressions for the lookback time, age of the universe, luminosity distance, angular diameter, and galaxy number counts versus redshift are derived and their meaning discussed in detail. An interesting consequence of these cosmological models is the...

In this paper we analyzed the problem of investigating locally the scalar curvature of the two dimensional kinematic surfaces foliated by the homothetic motion of an eight curve in LorentzMinkowski 5-space . We express the scalar curvature of the corresponding two dimensional kinematic surfaces as the quotient of hyperbolic functions { }. From that point, we derive the necessary and sufficient ...

The phenomenology of gluon saturation at small parton momentum fraction, Bjorken-x, in the proton and in the nucleus is introduced. The experimentally-accessible kinematic domains at the nucleus–nucleus colliders RHIC and LHC are discussed. Finally, the saturation hints emerging from measurements at RHIC and the perspectives for LHC are described.

Recent works have shown success in mimicking the flapping flight of bats on the robotic platform Bat Bot (B2). This robot has only five actuators but retains the ability to flap and fold-unfold its wings in flight. However, this bat-like robot has been unable to perform folding-unfolding of its wings within the period of a wingbeat cycle, about 100 ms. The DC motors operating the spindle mechan...

Within a human motion analysis system, body parts are modeled by simple virtual 3D rigid objects. Its position and orientation parameters at frame t+1 are estimated based on the parameters at frame t and the image intensity variation from frame t to t + 1, under kinematic constraints. A genetic algorithm calculates the 3D parameters that make a goal function that measures the intensity change m...