Geotechnical instruments are used widely as a complementary tool to geodetic methods in monitoring natural and man-made structures. This paper provides an overview of geotechnical instruments used in structural monitoring. The transducers commonly used in geotechnical instrumentation are first introduced. This is followed by an introduction of the various types of instruments including their wo...

NEXTRANS Project No. 125OSUY2.1 VARIATIONAL BAYES METHOD FOR ESTIMATING TRANSIT ROUTE OD FLOWS USING APC DATA By Rabi G. Mishalani, Principal Investigator Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering The Ohio State University [email protected] Mark R. McCord, co-Principal Investigator Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering The Ohio State University mccord.2@o...

The primary objective of the Beyond Einstein Advanced Coherent Optical Network (BEACON) mission is a search for new physics beyond general relativity by measuring the curvature of relativistic space-time around Earth. This curvature is characterized by the Eddington parameter γ – the most fundamental relativistic gravity parameter and a direct measure for the presence of new physical interactio...

In many geodetic applications a large number of observations are being measured to estimate the unknown parameters. The unbiasedness property of the estimated parameters is only ensured if there is no bias (e.g. systematic effect) or falsifying observations, which are also known as outliers. One of the most important steps towards obtaining a coherent analysis for the parameter estimation is th...

Fault slip rate estimates along the Altyn Tagh and Kunlun strike-slip faults in northern Tibet vary considerably between short-term geodetic and long-term geologic studies. Here we reanalyze and model all global positioning system (GPS) data from northern Tibet to determine if these differences might be explained by previously unmodeled transient processes associated with the earthquake cycle, ...

Let R be a commutative finite principal ideal ring with unity, and letG(R) be the simple graph consisting of nontrivial proper ideals of R as vertices such that two vertices I and J are adjacent if they have nonzero intersection. In this paper we continue the work done by Abu Osba. We calculate the radius, eccentricity, domination number, independence number, geodetic number, and the hull numbe...

The novel observation of an exotic strangeness S = +1 baryon state at 1.54 GeV will trigger an intensified search for this and other baryons with exotic quantum numbers. This state was predicted long ago in topological soliton models. We use this approach together with the new datum in order to investigate its implications for the baryon spectrum. In particular we estimate the positions of othe...

1.1. Let G be a semisimple complex Lie group with the Cartan datum (I, ·) and the root datum (Y,X, . . . ). Let H ⊂ B = B+,B− ⊂ G be a Cartan subgroup and a pair of opposite Borel subgroups respectively. Let X = G/B be the flag manifold of G. Let C = P ∋ ∞ be the projective line. Let α = ∑ i∈I aii ∈ N[I] ⊂ H2(X,Z). The moduli space of G-monopoles of topological charge α (see e.g. [4]) is natura...

The query-by-image video retrieval (QBIVR) task has been attracting considerable research attention recently. However, most existing methods represent a video by either aggregating or projecting all its frames into a single datum point, which may easily cause severe information loss. In this paper, we propose an efficient QBIVR framework to enable an effective and efficient video search with im...