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INVESTIGATIONS ON THE BUNDLE ADJUSTMENT RESULTS FROM SFM-BASED SOFTWARE FOR MAPPING PURPOSES

Abstract. Since its first inception, aerial photography has been used for topographic mapping. Large-scale aerial photography contributed to the creation of many of the topographic maps around the world. In Indonesia, a 2013 government directive on spatial management has re-stressed the need for topographic maps, with aerial photogrammetry providing the main method of acquisition. However, the large need to generate such maps is often limited by budgetary reasons. Today, SfM (Structure-from-Motion) offers quicker and less expensive solutions to this problem. However, considering the required precision for topographic missions, these solutions need to be assessed to see if they provide enough level of accuracy. In this paper, a popular SfM-based software Agisoft PhotoScan is used to perform bundle adjustment on a set of large-scale aerial images. The aim of the paper is to compare its bundle adjustment results with those generated by more classical photogrammetric software, namely Trimble Inpho and ERDAS IMAGINE. Furthermore, in order to provide more bundle adjustment statistics to be compared, the Damped Bundle Adjustment Toolbox (DBAT) was also used to reprocess the PhotoScan project. Results show that PhotoScan results are less stable than those generated by the two photogrammetric software programmes. This translates to lower accuracy, which may impact the final photogrammetric product.
Parental Efficacy and the Development of Social Competence in Young Children.

This study examined the relation of two aspects of parental efficacy (locus of control and interpersonal support) to the social competence of 62 children aged 2 to 5 years in a preschool setting. The following assessment instruments were used: Schaefer's (1979) Locus of Control Inventory to measure parental locus of control; Paul's Home Support Inventory to measure interpersonal support; The Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning to measure the child's level of functioning; and the Preschool Version of tha Classroom Behavior Inventory to measure the child's social competence as assessed by teachers and parents. One of the major findings of this study was that the child's development of social competence is interrelated with the dimensions of his or her development and ecology. In addition, locus of control appears to influence the way parents view their children's behavior; for example, externally controlled parents had negative assessments of their child's social competence. Three patterns of efficacy were identified: (1) the clear direction which externality gave to parent and child relationships at home, in school, and in the cormunity; (2) the connection between significant support persons and the child's development of social competence; and (3) the interactional nature of development and the ecology. (ROC) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Once N EduCatOrtal Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IERICI 1". "4 ts document nas been reproduced as erred born tne person or organqaton N1 or.cFnal. ng C Minor GnangeS nave been made Iv unProve CD ,e0cOduCtuOn Quahty Po+rts of Cpn.OnS stated dOCu men! do not necessaoty represent otficAal O OERI poSbOn or 001,CY
The optical detection unit for Baikal-GVD neutrino telescope

The first stage of the GVD-cluster composed of five strings was deployed in April 2014. Each string consists of two sections with 12 optical modules per section. A section is the basic detection unit of the Baikal neutrino telescope. We will describe the section design, review its basic elements - optical modules, FADC readout units, slow control and calibration systems, and present selected results for section in-situ tests in Lake Baikal.
Insulating Packaging Solution Based on Cylinder Model

Insulating packaging is used in a variety of applications as a thermal protection for temperature-sensitive products. With computer simulation, one spherical shell model and one cylinder model are identified as suitable result for insulating packaging solution. Based on the cylinder model, the insulating packaging solution is achieved by using “minimum packaging cost” as an optimization target. The comparison of results predicted from the present model with benchmark experimental data shows satisfactory agreement in terms of packaging duration.
A Review on Implementation of AES Algorithm Using FPGA and Its Performance Analysis

Now a day's large number of internet and wireless communication users has led to an increasing demand of security measures and devices for protecting the user data transmitted over the unsecured network so that unauthorized persons cannot access it . As we share the data through wireless network it should provide data confidentiality, integrity and authentication. The symmetric block cipher plays a major role in the bulk data encryption. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) provides data security. AES has the advantage of being implemented in both hardware and software. Hardware implementation of the AES has lot of advantage such has increased throughput and better security level. Hardware Implementation for 128 bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption and Decryption has been made using VHDL. The proposed algorithm for encryption and decryption module will functionally verified using modelsim, will be synthesize using Quartus 2 using Altera FPGA platform and analyze the design for the power, Throughput & area.
Traducción y validación de la versión española de la Échelle de Satisfacción des Besoins Psychologiques en el contexto educativo

The aim of the present research was to translate and to analyze the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Echelle de Satisfaction des Besoins Psychologiques using a sample of 324 university students (99 males and 225 females). Results of the confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the correlated three factor structure of the scale. Like-wise, internal consistence showed evidences of reliability. The concurrent validity was tested using a structural equation model which task orienta-tion climate predicted the three basic psychological needs and these, in turn, the intrinsic motivation. Results support preliminary the use of the Spanish version of the scale in higher education.
Optimised Building Form for Environmental Sustainability

Built environment professionals have the opportunity to contribute towards a significant reduction in GHG emissions using green design principles. The starting point of green design is the optimum building form that requires less energy to construct and to operate, provided that the other design goals are satisfied. Using the interoperability based Architectural Design Optimisation Tool (ArDOT) software environment, this research was aimed at the optimisation of form and orientation of an example building in two different climatic locations. The optimisation process was driven by the results from the building simulation software, integrated into ArDOT using Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). The objectives were to reduce annual demand for energy and to maximise daylight availability. The applicability of the framework has been investigated in the early stages of architectural design, where required parameters for building simulation are not fully known. A standards based mapping is used to compensate for the missing data and to enable the design team the access to detailed based simulation programs. The results from the research show the advantages of using mathematical optimisation techniques for environmental sustainability through a directed exploration of the solution space.
Australian Rules football during the 1980s

It is interesting that a simple analysis based on percentages would have reached the same major conclusions. The complicated computer rating produces results which differ only slightly from the much more simple method of percentage. Where the ordering due to percentage is different from that of the average computer rating, it is due to only minor differences in the ratings of the teams. Possibly the extra factors the computer method takes Into account do even out over the decade, suggesting that if you have enough data, simple methods may be adequate. In the 1446 matches the teams scored a total of 297,203 points, or nearly 206 points per game. Hawthorn is the best team over the decade, with a clear gap to Carlton and Essendon. These three teams stand out as the most successful teams over the entire decade, playing in 24, 20, and 15 finals matches respectively. At the lower end, St Kilda and Brisbane are clearly the worst teams of the decade, well behind Melbourne and Footscray. The remaining teams are grouped together with both ratings and percentages about 100. To interpret Table 1, it is important to realize that every team except Brisbane and West Coast played 220 home & away games. The latter teams joined the Victorian Football League in 1987, making it a more aptly-named Australian Football League. Those two teams each played 66 home-away games. All teams except Brisbane and St. Kilda participated in finals matches. Because the draw is not equally fait to all teams, here the teams are ranked based on the average computer rating over the decade. The computer rating uses a least-squares method to produce a weekly rating which is the average margin of victory corrected for home advantage plus the average opponent rating, a measure of strength of schedule. This rating provides much more information than percentage, which depends only on the margin of victory. Raymond T. Stefani 1 and Stephen R. Clarke2
Approximation Theorems Related to the Coupon Collector’s Problem

This Ph.D. thesis concerns the version of the classical coupon collector's problem, when a collector samples with replacement a set of $n\ge 2$ distinct coupons so that at each time any one of the $n$ coupons is drawn with the same probability $1/n$. For a fixed integer $m\in\{0,1,. ,n-1\}$, the coupon collector's waiting time $W_{n,m}$ is the random number of draws the collector performs until he acquires $n-m$ distinct coupons for the first time. The basic goal of the thesis is to approximate the distribution of the coupon collector's appropriately centered and normalized waiting time with well-known measures with high accuracy, and in many cases prove asymptotic expansions for the related probability distribution functions and mass functions. The approximating measures are chosen from five different measure families. Three of them -- the Poisson distributions, the normal distributions and the Gumbel-like distributions -- are probability measure families whose members occur as limiting laws in the limit theorems concerning $W_{n,m}$. The other two approximating measure families are certain compound Poisson distributions and Poisson--Charlier signed measures.
Behaviour of the ocean DMS(P) pools in the Sargasso Sea viewed in a coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean model

The dimethylsulfide (DMS) production model NODEM (Northern Oceans DMS Emission Model) was cou- pled with the water column ocean model GOTM (General Ocean Turbulence Model) that includes a two-equation k-e turbulence scheme. This coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean model represents a significant improvement over the previous uncoupled version of NODEM that was driven by a diagnostic vertical mixing scheme. Using the same set of biogeochemical parameters, the coupled model is used to simulate the annual cycles of 1992 and 1993 at Hydrostation S in the Sargasso Sea. The better reproduction of the turbulent mixing environment corrects some deficiencies in nitro- gen cycling, especially in the seasonal evolution of the nutrient concentrations. Hence, the coupled model captures the late-winter chlorophyll- and DMS(P)-rich blooms. It is also more adept at reproducing the vertical distribution of chlo- rophyll and DMS(P) in summer. Moreover, the DMS pool becomes less dependent on parameters controlling the nitro- gen cycle and relatively more sensitive to parameters related to the sulfur cycle. Finally, the coupled model reproduces some of the observed differences in DMS(P) pools between 1992 and 1993, the latter being an independent data set not used in calibrating the initial version of NODEM. Resume : Le modele NODEM (« Northern Oceans DMS Emission Model ») de production de dimethylsulfide (DMS) a ete couple avec le modele 1-D d'ocean GOTM (« General Ocean Turbulence Model »), qui inclue un schema de la turbulence oceanique du second ordre de type k-e. Ce modele couple physique et biogeochimique constitue une ame- lioration significative de la precedente version non couplee de NODEM, qui s'appuyait sur un schema diagnostique pour le melange vertical. Reprenant les memes parametres biogeochimiques, le modele couple a ete utilize pour simu- ler le cycle saisonnier des annees 1992 et 1993 a la station S en mer des Sargasses. La meilleure prise en compte de l'aspect turbulent du melange oceanique corrige certains defauts dans la representation du cycle de l'azote, en particu- lier l'evolution saisonniere des concentrations en nutriments. Le modele couple capture maintenant les floraisons phytoplanctoniques de fin d'hiver et les pics en chlorophylle et en DMS(P) qui les caracterisent. Il ameliore egalement la representation des distributions verticales de chlorophylle et de DMS(P) en ete. De plus, le reservoir de DMS est moins dependant des parametres controlant le cycle de l'azote, et relativement plus sensible aux parametres relies au cycle du souffre. Finalement, le modele couple reproduit certaines des differences observees entre 1992 et 1993 dans les reservoirs de DMS(P), la derniere annee constituant un jeu de donnees independant qui n'a pas ete utilize pour la calibration de la version initiale de NODEM.
The Moderating Effect of the Sector’s Level of Concentration on the Relationship Between Balance Sheet Composition and the Firm’s Competitive Advantage

This paper investigates the relationship between the competitive advantage and balance sheet composition of the firm, based on metrics contained in the structure of financial statements, from endogenous origin (firm’s balance sheet composition) or exogenous (level of sector concentration). In addition, we perform tests in order to verify whether the exogenous characteristics moderate the relation between endogenous characteristics and the firm’s operational performance. We selected data from the Economatica® database, a Brazilian company specialized in information for the capital market. We based the tests on the hierarchical model approach with repeated measures involving serial and nested regressions, estimated by maximum likelihood. The test results suggest that (i) the firm’s idiosyncratic features have greater explanatory capability for the firm’s performance than the industry features; (ii) the relation between firm idiosyncratic resources and firm performance are sensitive to industry characteristics.
Residual capacity of corroded reinforcing bars

This paper presents an experimental investigation into the residual capacity of corroded reinforcing bars. By performing both accelerated and simulated corrosion tests on bare bars and on bars embedded in concrete, the mechanism of the reduction of the capacity of corroded reinforcement was investigated. The influence of type and diameter of reinforcement on its residual capacity is discussed. The experimental results show that, due to local attack penetration, the residual cross-section of a corroded bar is no longer round and varies considerably along its circumference and its length. Although the force–extension curves of corroded bars are similar to those of non-corroded bars for up to 16% corrosion, their residual yield and ultimate forces decrease more rapidly than their average cross-sectional area and, therefore, their residual strength decreases significantly. Even though the residual capacity of corroded small diameter and/or plain bars reduces more than that of large diameter or ribbed ones, di.
Speed Enhancement of Snort Network Intrusion Detection System

Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is a security technology that attempts to identify intrusions. Snort is an open source NIDS which enables us to detect the previously known intrusions. However, Snort NIDS has several problems one of them is the efficiency problem. We suggest using distributed environment in order to enhance it. We achieved this goal by enhancing the Snort's string matching engine through using a LAN of computers, where each computer in the LAN matching a subset of the monitored attacks. The experimental results show that it is possible to improve Snort's efficiency using distributed environment.
Checklist of insect pollinators and their relative abundance on two canola (Brassica napus) cultivars in Peshawar, Pakistan

Studies on the checklist of pollinators and their relative abundance on the Canola crop was conducted at the New Developmental Farm (NDF), The University of Agriculture, Peshawar during 2009-2010. Among honey bees Apis mellifera (Linnaeus, 1758), Apis florea (Fabricius, 1787), Apis dorsata (Fabricius, 1793) and Apis cerana (Fabricius, 1793) were the major pollinators. Other pollinators included Syrphid flies Episyrphus balteatus (De Geer, 1776), Syrphus ribesii (Linnaeus, 1758), Eristalis tenax (Linnaeus, 1758), Eristalinus aeneus (Scopoli, 1763) and Bumble bees Bombus spp. (Latreille, 1802). The abundance of different insect pollinator species were recorded on two canola varieties (‘Ganyou’ in which pollen viability and germination are adversely affected by soil salinity, and ‘Oscar’ that is more tolerant of soil salinity) on different dates at different day timings. In early days of the data recorded the cultivar Oscar attracted more insects as compared to Ganyou cultivar of Canola crop. Generally no significant difference was recorded between the two cultivars in attracting different pollinator species, whereas significant difference was recorded between frequency of pollinator visitation to both cultivars Oscar and Ganyou during morning and afternoon times.
Models describing the degradation of functional parameters of electronic devices based on the Weibull–Gnedenko distribution

The authors offer the possibility for obtaining the mathematical model of degradation of a functional parameter in the form of conditional density of its distribution over a given operating time period on the basis of the 3-parametric Weibull–Gnedenko distribution. This model provides reliability prediction errors for samples of electronic devices smaller, than the errors after using the degradation model based on normal distribution of the functional parameter.
Aerodynamic effects on wind turbine blades using the lifting-line theory

The aerodynamic effects on a wind turbine blade’s tip region are investigated using the Lifting Line Theory (LLT). The LL equation is solved using two different approaches: the Fourier Method (FM) and the Simplification Method (SM). The first method provides an accurate solution of the equation through the use of Fourier expansions and by assuming a spesific blade geometry. The latter is basically an interative method where the known results from the simple two-dimensional strip theory are implemented in the three-dimensional analysis leading to an explicit scheme. The results are presented in the form of the circulation distribution along the span of the blade and with varying tip region lengths. The aeroacoustical aspect is briefly discussed. The Blade Element Momentum (BEM) theory is introduced and suggestions on how the LLT and the BEM can be coupled together are discussed.
Comparative expression profiling of four salt-inducible genes from Aeluropus littoralis

Abiotic stresses such as salinity influence agricultural production. Plants generally respond to stimulus conditions in a complex manner involving many genes and proteins. In the evolution process, halophyte plant Aeluropus littoralis has been proven to have abiotic stress-tolerance capacity. A. littoralis is a salt-resistant halophyte providing a wealthy genetic resource for developing salinity tolerance in crop plants. In the present study, the expression of four candidate ESTs including PKL, 5PTase, NUC-L2 and GLYI genes were analyzed in root and shoot tissues by quantitative Real-Time PCR in multiple time points under 600 mM NaCl stress and recovery conditions . Al5PTase gene showed the highest significant up-regulation in shoot and root tissues. However, a significant down-regulation was found for AlGLY gene in root tissues. Furthermore, we found the unique up-regulations for AlPKL and AlNUC-L2 genes expression magnitudes in root tissues under recovery conditions. These results may provide useful information for further understanding of the role of A. littoralis genes and their regulatory pathways, revealing important genetic resources for crop improvement.
Application of the Wavelet Transform of Pressure Signals for Detecting and Analyzing Rotating Stall Inception in Axial Flow Low Speed Compressor Stage

The paper presents a research program carried out to improve understanding of the fluid dynamics mechanisms that lead to rotating stall in the axial flow low speed compressor stage. The stalling behavior of this compressor stage was studied by measuring unsteady casing pressure by means of a circumferentially and axially spaced array of high frequency pressure transducers. Another probe used was a disc static pressure probe, with the pressure transducer, for in-flow and out-flow measurements along the blade span. It was expected that understanding of the fluid dynamics will facilitate at least two important tasks. The first was to accurately predict of when and how a particular compressor would stall. The second was to control, delay, or eventually suppress the rotating stall and surge. In consequence, one could extend the useful operating range of the axial compressor. Another motivation for the research was to compare the results from the three applied analysis techniques by using a single stall inception event. The first one was a simple visual inspection of the traces, which brought about a very satisfactory effect. The second one was application of spatial Fourier decomposition to the analysis of stall inception data, and the third method of analysis consisted in application of wavelet filtering in order to better understand the physical mechanisms which lead to rotating stall. It was shown that each of these techniques would provide different information about compressor stall behavior, and each method had unique advantages and limitations.