today's, adverse effects of off-site erosion, namely damages received from sediment, is a serious bioenvironmental problem. one of the methods for temporary soil stabilization before permanent rehabilitation of vegetation cover, especially on slopes, for mitigating of bioenvironmental contaminants, is using materials having property to cementate the dispersed particles on the soil surface....

This paper discusses the influence of aerodynamic drag torque on the dynamics of a satellite in a very low altitude orbit. The larger atmospheric density in low altitude earth orbits results in significant aerodynamic drag torques acting on the satellite. With a conventional satellite design this may result in instability. This paper shows how the instability can be avoided, and how the aerodyn...

Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) is an established powerful technique for change detection. Its advantages include competitive spatial resolution, accuracy in milimeter-centimeter scale and spatial coverage. However, there are limitations in using it for detecting the Earth surface changes. Line-of-sight ambiguity (1-D displacement), temporal and geometrical decorrelation (slopes...

Self-stabilization is a versatile approach to fault-tolerance since it permits a distributed system to recover from any transient fault that arbitrarily corrupts the contents of all memories in the system. Byzantine tolerance is an attractive feature of distributed systems that permits to cope with arbitrary malicious behaviors. We consider the well known problem of constructing a maximum metri...

We compared the slopes of the EMF responses and the response range of a solid contact electrode based on a tribenzylamine ionophore with those based on a tris(2-phenylethyl)amine ionophore and a tris(3-phenylpropyl)amine ionophore. Their slopes of the EMF responses showed, respectively, 57.7, 58.1, 59.0 mV pH(-1) (at 20 +/- 0.2 degrees C). Also, the linear pH response dynamic ranges were 2.74-1...

Self-stabilization is an versatile approach to fault-tolerance since it permits a distributed system to recover from any transient fault that arbitrarily corrupts the contents of all memories in the system. Byzantine tolerance is an attractive feature of distributed system that permits to cope with arbitrary malicious behaviors. We consider the well known problem of constructing a maximum metri...

The paper presents a simple, robust, and effective constraint enforcement scheme for rigid body dynamic simulation. The constraint enforcement scheme treats the constraint equations implicitly providing stability as well as accuracy in constrained dynamic problems. The method does not require ad-hoc problem dependent parameters. We describe the formulation of implicit constraint enforcement for...

Rigid body dynamics with contact constraints can be solved locally using linear complementarity techniques. However, these techniques do not impose the original constraints and need stabilization. In this paper we show how constraint stabilization can also be done in a complementarity framework. Our technique effectively eliminates the drift problem for both equality and inequality constraints ...

We use a new compilation of global denudation estimates from cosmogenic nuclides to calculate the apportionment and the sum of all sediment produced on Earth by extrapolation of a statistically significant correlation between denudation rates and basin slopes to watersheds without denudation rate data. This robust relationship can explain approximately half of the variance in denudation from qu...