The Effects of Spectral Pretreatments on Chemometric Analyses of Soil Profiles Using Laboratory Imaging Spectroscopy by Henning Buddenbaum, Markus Steffens

“…Eight different spectral pretreatments were applied to the sample spectra and to the resulting images in order to explore the influence of these pre-treatments on the estimation of elemental concentrations. We found that spectral preprocessing has a minor influence on chemometry results when powerful regression algorithms like PLSR are used.…”
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Free-Decay Nonlinear System Identification via Mass-Change Scheme by Dario Anastasio, Stefano Marchesiello

“…Methods for nonlinear system identification of structures generally require input-output measured data to estimate the nonlinear model, as a consequence of the noninvariance of the FRFs in nonlinear systems. …”
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Robust localization using geographic information in bistatic sonar by Kwang Hee Lee, Eui Cheol Jeong, Seongil Kim, Dong Seog Han

“…In addition, the speed of the sound in the sea changes with temperature. The target estimation error was analyzed mathematically in terms of the mentioned errors. …”
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Orlando, Florida’s Urban and Community Forests and Their Ecosystem Services by Edem K. Ekpe, Elizabeth Becker, Jessica Lab, Ross Hinkle, Francisco Escobedo

“…This 10-page fact sheet provides information, based on an assessment of urban forests within the limits of the City of Orlando conducted during the summer of 2010, on the structure and composition of Orlando's urban forest, the occurrence of invasive trees in the city, the ecosystem services trees provide, including estimating the mitigation of climate change effects and their role in urban hydrology, and how this information can be used to define sustainable urban planning objectives and goals. …”
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Parameterised design of robust point‐to‐point fast motion controller by Wentao Yu, Guoyang Cheng

“…An extended‐state observer is also included for simultaneous estimation of system speed and disturbance. Experimental verification is conducted on a DC motor position servo system using a TMS320F28335 board, and the effectiveness of the proposed design is demonstrated.…”
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Delay-Dependent H∞ Control for Descriptor Markovian Jump Systems with Time-Varying Delay by Jinghao Li, Qingling Zhang, Ding Zhai, Yi Zhang

“…Since the reciprocally convex combination approach is adopted to estimate the upper bound of the integral terms, the BRL obtained in this paper is less conservative than some existing ones. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Radio Propagation Channel in Ruins Environment by Jiao He, Er-Ping Li, Sai-Qiong Zhou, Kun Liao

“…This paper presents a spatial smoothing estimation via rotational invariance technique (SS-ESPRIT) for radio channel characterization of high density ruins. …”
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Approximation of Signals (Functions) by Trigonometric Polynomials in Lp-Norm by M. L. Mittal, Mradul Veer Singh

“…Mittal and Rhoades (1999, 2000) and Mittal et al. (2011) have initiated a study of error estimates En(f) through trigonometric-Fourier approximation (tfa) for the situations in which the summability matrix T does not have monotone rows. …”
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Spin Splitting Spectroscopy of Heavy Quark and Antiquarks Systems by Hesham Mansour, Ahmed Gamal, M. Abolmahassen

“…The results obtained are in good agreement with the experimental data and are better than the previous theoretical estimates.…”
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Characterization of TiO2 Nanofilms Obtained by Sol-gel and Anodic Oxidation by María Laura Vera, Miguel Ángel Alterach, Mario Roberto Rosenberger, Diego Germán Lamas, Carlos Enrique Schvezov, Alicia Esther Ares

“…This enables the film thickness to be estimated by the film colour. Within the range of the parameters studied, both techniques produce thin films with smooth surfaces which at most reproduce the roughness of the polished substrate. …”
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Finite-Time Control of One Dimensional Crowd Evacuation System by Wei Qin, Baotong Cui, Zhengxian Jiang

“…In this paper, finite-time controller is designed, which not only guarantees the effective evacuation, but also obtains the estimation of evacuation time. Then, finite-time tracking problem is solved, which makes the density converge to a given density. …”
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Skill Evaluation from Observation of Discrete Hand Movements during Console Operation by Satoshi Suzuki, Fumio Harashima

“…These facts indicated that skill level of the discrete motion during operation can be estimated by investigating two types of the covariance.…”
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PULMONARY EMBOLISM IN THE PRACTICE OF AN OBSTETRICIAN-GYNECOLOGIST (CLINICAL CASE) by Елена Владимировна Рудаева, Юлия Валерьевна Васютинская, Любовь Борисовна Николаева, Светлана Ивановна Елгина, Кира Борисовна Мозес

“…The incidence of PE during pregnancy is estimated to be approximately 1 in 1000 pregnancies. …”
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Gliding-Guided Projectile Attitude Tracking Controller Design Based on Improved Adaptive Twisting Sliding Mode Algorithm by Wenguang Zhang, Wenjun Yi

“…An adaptive variable observer is used to provide estimation for the unmeasured state which contains unmatched disturbance. …”
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Multiplication Operators between Lipschitz-Type Spaces on a Tree by Robert F. Allen, Flavia Colonna, Glenn R. Easley

“…In this paper, we characterize the bounded and the compact multiplication operators between ℒ and ℒ𝐰 and provide operator norm and essential norm estimates. Furthermore, we characterize the bounded and compact multiplication operators between ℒ𝐰 and the space 𝐿∞ of bounded functions on 𝑇 and determine their operator norm and their essential norm. …”
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Conditional Random Fields and Supervised Learning in Automated Skin Lesion Diagnosis by Paul Wighton, Tim K. Lee, Greg Mori, Harvey Lui, David I. McLean, M. Stella Atkins

“…The first model is based on independent pixel labeling using maximum a-posteriori (MAP) estimation. The second model is based on conditional random fields (CRFs), where dependencies between pixels are defined using a graph structure. …”
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Mixed Platoon Flow Dispersion Model Based on Speed-Truncated Gaussian Mixture Distribution by Weitiao Wu, Wenzhou Jin, Luou Shen

“…Expectation maximum (EM) algorithm was used for parameters estimation. The relationship between the arriving flow distribution at downstream intersection and the departing flow distribution at upstream intersection was investigated using the proposed model. …”
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Modeling viscosity of commercial glass melts: Adam–Gibbs equation and Gaussian process regression by Pavel Ferkl, Preeti Malviya, Pavel Hrma, Albert A. Kruger, Ashutosh Goel

“…However, this can be mostly negated when Gaussian process regression is used to estimate the compositional dependence of configuration entropy and fragility exponent parameters of the Adam–Gibbs equation.…”
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Modeling evolution and persistence of neurological viral diseases in wild populations by Dobromir T. Dimitrov, Aaron A. King

“…Viral infections are one of the leading source of mortality worldwide.The great majority of them circulate and persist in wild reservoirs and periodically spill over into humans or domestic animals.In the wild reservoirs, the progression of disease is frequently quite different from that in spillover hosts.We propose a mathematical treatment of the dynamics of viral infections in wild mammals using models with alternative outcomes.We develop and analyze compartmental epizootic models assuming permanent or temporary immunity of the individuals surviving infections and apply them to rabies in bats.We identify parameter relations that support the existing patterns in the viral ecology and estimate those parameters that are unattainable through direct measurement.We also investigate how the duration of the acquired immunity affects the disease and population dynamics.…”
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A Sparsity Preestimated Adaptive Matching Pursuit Algorithm by Xinhe Zhang, Yufeng Liu, Xin Wang

“…Firstly, the sparsity preestimated strategy is used to estimate the sparsity, and then the signal is reconstructed by the SAMP algorithm with the preestimated sparsity as the iterative initial value. …”
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