[1] Plate kinematics have been derived from GPS site velocities spanning Australasia and the western Pacific and define a framework in which deformation fields at plate boundaries can be investigated. The Australian Plate appears to be rigid from Cocos Island in the west to Noumea in the east and incorporating all of the Australian continent. A revision of the angular velocity vector of the Pac...

In real time number plate recognition, some vehicle number plates can not be recognized due to very poor illumination, motion blurred effect, fade characters and so on. The key problem is that number plate can not be segmented accurately and correctly. In this paper, we present a recognition method based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs). Firstly, some concepts of SVMs are briefly reviewed. The...

In typical Lamb wave simulation practices, effects of plate edge reflections are often not considered in order to simplify the wave signal interpretations. Methods that are based on infinite plates such as the semi-analytical finite element method is effective in simulating Lamb waves as it excludes the effect of plate edges. However, the inclusion of plate edges in a finite plate could render ...

By applying the principle that all stellar image profiles should be identical apart from a scale change, we can derive a relative calibration for a photographic plate without use of calibration spots or other indirect means.

In this article, we consider abstract linear conservative systems and their time-discrete counterparts. Our main result is a representation formula expressing solutions of the continuous model through the solution of the corresponding time-discrete one. As an application, we show how observability properties for the time continuous model yield uniform (with respect to the time-step) observabili...