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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Out-of-Sequence"”.
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Best Linear Unbiased Estimation Fusion with Constraints
… or data fusion for estimation, is the problem of how to best utilize useful information contained in multiple data sets for the purpose of estimating an unknown quantity — a parameter or a process. Estimation fusion with constraints gives rise to challenging theoretical problems given the …
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Cenozoic extension superimposed on a Mesozoic thrust belt, central Nevada
The central Nevada thrust belt (CNTB) is a north-south trending belt of contractile structures in the hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt. This study tests the hypothesis that analysis and regional correlation of CNTB structures is possible after retrodeformation of younger extensional faults; …
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Towards Pseudospectral Control and Estimation
… different topics related to the application of pseudospectral optimization methods in the field of automatic control. Pseudospectral optimization methods solve dynamic optimization problems by discretizing the state-space, creating a discretized version of a continuous problem. The resulting …
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Detrital muscovite thermochronology in two drainage basins in western Bhutan
… between the 40Ar/39Ar cooling age distributions of detrital minerals in the two river catchments of the Punatsang chu and the Wang chu. Muscovites from five samples of Wang chu river sands yield ages (corresponding roughly to the time of bedrock cooling through a temperature of ca.350°C) between …
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Efficient Multi-Target Tracking using graphical models
The objective of this thesis is to develop a new framework for Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) algorithms that are distinguished by the use of statistical machine learning techniques. MTT is a crucial problem for many important practical applications such as military surveillance. Despite being a …
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Mitigating the risk of a new workforce by reducing rework and rightsizing on hand inventory
… manufacturing facility in a short amount of time resulted in: (1) increased rework, and (2) increased part damage during assembly. The majority of rework results from simple workmanship mistakes from the new workforce. The approach used in this thesis to combat the increase in rework …
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Architecture design and performance analysis of practical buffered-crossbar packet switches
… packet switches were introduced to relax inputoutput arbitration timing and provide high throughput under admissible traffic. However, the amount of memory required in the crossbar of an N x N switch is N^2x k x L, where k is the crosspoint buffer size and needs to be of size RTT in cells, L is …
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Thrust sheet evolution in the Kinlochewe region of the Moine Thrust Zone, N.W. Scotland and the Pelvoux-Brianconnais, French Alps
… the Moine Thrust and minimum restored wi1ths of 17 km between the La Meije and Combeynot Thrusts (external Alps), and 54 km between the frontal Subbrianconnais Thrust and the western Brianconnais Zone (internal Alps). Imbricate thrusts within the Moine Thrust Zone branch off a floor thrust …
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Field-based Constraints on the Origin of the Benton Uplift, Ouachita Mountains
… belt exposed in west central Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma. The Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Ouachita orogeny occurred when the Sabine arc terrane collided during south-facing subduction, during closure of the Cambrian passive margin of the North American plate. Deep-water Paleozoic …
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The tectonometamorphic evolution of the Greater Himalayan sequence as exposed in central Nepal and adjacent south-central Tibet
Understanding the development of the Himalaya is critical to elucidating continental collisional processes. The Greater Himalayan sequence (GHS), the exhumed mid-crust of the Himalayan orogen, records the tectonometamorphic evolution of the Himalaya from its deep hinterland to its foreland. The GHS …
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Morphology and structure of the accretionary prism offshore North Sumatra, Indonesia and offshore Kodiak Island, USA : a comparison to seek a link between prism formation and hazard potential
… earthquakes with devastating tsunami; recurrence of large earthquakes is predicted. Studies of the accretionary prism offshore of northern Sumatra, 1-7°N and 92-97°E, reveal a steep outer slope (5-12°), a plateau ~100-120 km wide, and a steep inner slope adjacent to the Aceh Basin. Three primary …
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Application-specific reliable data transfer in wireless sensor networks
… wireless sensor network (WSN) is a collection of sensor nodes and base stations connected via wireless medium. It sends data collected from the nodes to the base stations for generating information. The size and low cost of the sensor nodes as well as the WSN's ability to connect without wired …
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Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Sinu accretionary prism and Lower Magdalena forearc basin formed above a shallow-dipping subduction zone, Caribbean margin of Colombia
… is an integrated geologic and geophysical study of the slowly converging (20 mm/yr), amagmatic, and shallowly subducting (4-8˚) system of the Caribbean margin of Colombia that includes both its offshore accretionary prism (Sinu belt) and its overlying deep (8-9 km) and wide (150-200 km) forearc …
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The thermal and metamorphic evolution of the Northern Highlands Terrane, Scotland
… (NHT) in Scotland preserves a long record of metamorphism and convergent deformation related to several orogenic events that occurred from Neoproterozoic to Devonian time. Deconvolving the signatures of multiple tectonic events and determining the rates of metamorphism in settings like the …
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Tectonic and climatic control on the evolution of the Himalayan mountain front
Variations in the distribution of mass within an orogen may lead to transient sediment storage, which in turn might affect the state of stress and the level of fault activity. Distinguishing between different forcing mechanisms causing variations of sediment flux and tectonic activity, is therefore …
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Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Cordillera and Adjacent Basins
<p>Analyses of Global Positioning System (GPS) results, estimates of slip, seismic reflection data, and a variety of stress indicators (including borehole breakouts, natural fractures, and earthquake focal mechanism solutions) suggest that the Eastern Cordillera region in Colombia is an active zone …
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Particle Filtering and Optimal Control for Vehicles and Robots
… areas within estimation and optimal control of vehicles, in particular four-wheeled vehicles. One topic is how to handle delayed and out-of-sequence measurements (OOSMs) in tracking systems. The motivation for this is that with technological development and exploitation of more sensors in …
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Tectonic synthesis of the deepwater Lamprea thrust and fold belt, offshore Burgos Basin, western Gulf of Mexico
… exploration in the deepwater Western Gulf of Mexico, offshore Burgos Basin, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been mainly focused in the NE-SW structural trend of the Perdido fold belt. Recent exploration efforts have targeted the adjacent Lamprea thrust and fold belt, located south of the Perdido …
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Behavior of Hybrid Thick- and Thin-Skinned Orogenic Wedges in the Western Interior USA and South-Central Andes
The western interiors of North and South America host two of the largest fold and thrust belts on Earth, recording upper-plate processes active during ocean-continent convergence and the construction of Cordilleran orogenic systems. These systems are at dramatically different stages in their …
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