Feature selection is an important step in many pattern classification problems. It is applied to select a subset of features, from a much larger set, such that the selected subset is sufficient to perform the classification ...

In construction automation the tracking of worker location or a moving object is important for labor monitoring, resource management, and machine coordination. For object tracking a camera is often utilized to obtain ...

Australian water demands are increasing significantly with the increase of urbanization and industrialization. Thus, water is a valuable resource in Australia, but in short supply. There is a scope to make better use ...

This paper provides details of a field assessment of local scour at bridges carried out by Queensland Department of Main Roads. Most predictive formulae for the estimation of scour at bridge sites were developed from ...

This paper describes some results obtained from full-scale measurements of wind effects on a super-tall building, Di-Wang Tower, located in Shenzhen, China. This tall building has 79-storeys with a height of approximately ...

Deep sequencing technologies such as Illumina, SOLiD, and 454 platforms have become very powerful tools in discovering and quantifying small RNAs in diverse organisms. Sequencing small RNA fractions always identifies RNAs ...

This paper presents the results of numerical evaluation of surface Non-Destructive Testing methods for embedded timber poles in service. Main objective of the study is to investigate the influence offactors such as different ...

A number of powerful numerical models, including limit equilibrium and finite element (FE) methods, have been developed for slope stability analysis in recent decades. The limit equilibrium method contains several limitations, ...

Behaviour of soils in the vadose zone is closely linked to water balance between ground and atmosphere. It seems that transpiration is the most uncertain and difficult to evaluate of all the terms in the soil water balance. ...

This paper develops a closed-form solution for the elastic flexural-torsional buckling of a laterally fixed steel circular arch that is subjected to uniform bending. The formulation makes recourse to an orthogonal rotations ...