the momentum equation in the kinematic wave model is a power-law equation with two parameters. these parameters, which relate the discharge to the flow area, are commonly derived using manning’s equation. in general, the values of these parameters depend on the flow depth except for some special cross sections. in this paper, improved estimates of the kinematic wave parameters for circular chan...

In robotics and automated manufacturing, motion functions for parts of machines need to be designed. Many proposals the shape such can found in literature. Very often, time efficiency is a major criterion evaluating suitability given task. If there are higher precision requirements, reduction vibration also plays role. this case, should have continuous jerk function but still as fast possible w...

Numerous functional neuroimaging studies suggest that widespread bilateral parietal, temporal, and frontal regions are involved in tool-related and pantomimed gesture performance, but the role of these regions in specific aspects of gestural tasks remains unclear. In the largest prospective study of apraxia-related lesions to date, we performed voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping with data from ...

A tongue-bite apparatus (TBA) governs raking behaviors in two major and unrelated teleost lineages, the osteoglossomorph and salmoniform fishes. We present data on comparative morphology and kinematics from two representative species, the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and the Australian arowana (Scleropages jardinii), which suggest that both the TBA and raking are convergently derived in ...

We give a full classification of all pentapods with linear platform possessing a self-motion beside the trivial rotation about the platform. Recent research necessitates a contemporary and accurate re-examination of old results on this topic given by Darboux, Mannheim, Duporcq and Bricard, which also takes the coincidence of platform anchor points into account. For our study we use bond theory ...

A series of high precision measurements on the N ! transition involving polarized beams, out-of-plane detection and focal plane polarimetry in the H(~ e; e 0 p) 0 and H(~ e; e 0 +)n channels have been pursued at Bates during the last three years. They are geared towards the precise determination of the quadrupole amplitudes in the N ! transition and the isolation of the coherent, competing proc...

This article presents an integrated global navigation satellite system/light detection and ranging (GNSS/LiDAR)-based simultaneous localization mapping (SLAM) pose estimation framework to perform large-scale 3-D map building in partially GNSS-denied outdoor environments. The takes the advantage of complementarity between GNSS positioning LiDAR-SLAM decompose task according real-time kinematic (...