analysis of the stresses, displacements, and horizontal strains of the ground subsidence due to underground excavation in rocks can be accomplished by means of a hybridized higher order indirect boundary element/finite difference (be/fd) formulation. a semi-infinite displacement discontinuity field is discretized (numerically) using the cubic displacement discontinuity elements (i.e. each highe...

The paper adapts the large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping framework for image registration to the indirect setting where a template is registered against a target that is given through indirect noisy observations. The registration uses diffeomorphisms that transform the template through a (group) action. These diffeomorphisms are generated by solving a flow equation that is defined by...

The most commonly used method to test an indirect effect is to divide the estimate of the indirect effect by its standard error and compare the resulting z statistic with a critical value from the standard normal distribution. Confidence limits for the indirect effect are also typically based on critical values from the standard normal distribution. This article uses a simulation study to demon...

This paper describes a method of constructing Japanese nominal semantic dictionary, which is indispensable for text analysis, especially for indirect anaphora resolution. The main idea is to use noun phrases of "A NO(postposition) B" in corpora. Two nouns A and B in "A NO B" can have several semantic relations. By collecting "A NO B" phrases form corpora, analyzing their semantic relations, and...

Abstract The purpose of this article is to present a system dynamics (SD) model for studying the ‎interconnections among human being weight, eating habit, exercise, body fat, take-in medication, drugs-uses, and the health problems in general. Due to the fact that all of these factors have direct and indirect impacts on the expenses that insurance company have to pay this author is proposing a ...

We present a technique which uses existing OpenGL capabilities to approximate the effect of blurry specular reflections and indirect diffuse illumination. It makes use of environment maps, mipmapping with level of detail control, and possibly texture borders. The method is extremely simple to implement, in some cases requiring just a single additional OpenGL statement.

In this paper, absolute positioning instrument using trilateration ultrasonic sensor is mainly proposed to estimate absolute position errors combined with estimated position and orientation from differential odometry integrated with gyroscope to calculate absolute position of mobile robot. In the method, the indirect Kalman filter is mainly used to estimate absolute position errors and the esti...