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Remote manipulator dynamic simulation
A simulator to generate the real time visual scenes required to perform man in the loop investigations of remote manipulator application and design concepts for the space shuttle is described. The simulated remote manipulator consists of a computed display system that uses a digital computer, the electronic scene generator, an operator's station, and associated interface hardware. A description of the capabilities of the implemented simulation is presented. The mathematical models and programs developed for the simulation are included
Computing the output distribution and selection probabilities of a stack filter from the DNF of its positive Boolean function
Many nonlinear filters used in practise are stack filters. An algorithm is
presented which calculates the output distribution of an arbitrary stack filter
S from the disjunctive normal form (DNF) of its underlying positive Boolean
function. The so called selection probabilities can be computed along the way.Comment: This is the version published in Journal of Mathematical Imaging and
Vision, online first, 1 august 201
Calculating the output distribution of stack filters that are erosion-dilation cascades, in particular LULU-filters
Original article available at http://arxiv.org/ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Two procedures to compute the output distribution 0S of certain stack filters S (so
called erosion-dilation cascades) are given. One rests on the disjunctive normal form of S
and also yields the rank selection probabilities. The other is based on inclusion-exclusion
and e.g. yields 0S for some important LULU-operators S. Properties of 0S can be used to
characterize smoothing properties.Preprin
From spin to anyon notation: The XXZ Heisenberg model as a (or ) anyon chain
We discuss a relationship between certain one-dimensional quantum spin chains
and anyon chains. In particular we show how the XXZ Heisenberg chain is
realised as a (alternately ) anyon model. We find the
difference between the models lie primarily in choice of boundary condition.Comment: 13 page
Effects of climate-induced changes in isoprene emissions after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo
In the 1990s the rates of increase of greenhouse gas concentrations, most notably of methane, were observed to change, for reasons that have yet to be fully determined. This period included the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo and an El Nino warm event, both of which affect biogeochemical processes, by changes in temperature, precipitation and radiation. We examine the impact of these changes in climate on global isoprene emissions and the effect these climate dependent emissions have on the hydroxy radical, OH, the dominant sink for methane. We model a reduction of isoprene emissions in the early 1990s, with a maximum decrease of 40 Tg(C)/yr in late 1992 and early 1993, a change of 9%. This reduction is caused by the cooler, drier conditions following the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. Isoprene emissions are reduced both directly, by changes in temperature and a soil moisture dependent suppression factor, and indirectly, through reductions in the total biomass. The reduction in isoprene emissions causes increases of tropospheric OH which lead to an increased sink for methane of up to 5 Tg(CH4)/year, comparable to estimated source changes over the time period studied. There remain many uncertainties in the emission and oxidation of isoprene which may affect the exact size of this effect, but its magnitude is large enough that it should remain important
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