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Modified Roller Coaster Surface in Space

  • Selçuk BAŞ and
  • Talat KÖRPINAR

19 February 2019

In this paper, a new modified roller coaster surface according to a modified orthogonal frame is investigated in Euclidean 3-space. In this method, a new modified roller coaster surface is modeled. Both the Gaussian curvature and mean curvature of ro...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,003 Views
19 Pages

Rapid SLAM Method for Star Surface Rover in Unstructured Space Environments

  • Zhengpeng Zhang,
  • Yan Cheng,
  • Lijing Bu and
  • Jiayan Ye

19 September 2024

The space environment is characterized by unstructured features, sparsity, and poor lighting conditions. The difficulty in extracting features from the visual frontend of traditional SLAM methods results in poor localization and time-consuming issues...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,182 Views
12 Pages

29 October 2018

We consider a new kind of helicoidal surface for natural numbers ( m , n ) in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. We study a helicoidal surface of value ( m , n ) , which is locally isometric to a rotational surface of value ( m...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,855 Views
14 Pages

Surface Modification-Dominated Space-Charge Behaviors of LDPE Films: A Role of Charge Injection Barriers

  • Yuanwei Zhu,
  • Haopeng Chen,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Guanghao Qu and ,
  • Guanghao Lu,
  • Daomin Min,
  • Yongjie Nie and
  • Shengtao Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 September 2022

Gradually increasing power transmission voltage requires an improved high-voltage capability of polymeric insulating materials. Surface modification emerges as an easily accessible approach in enhancing breakdown and flashover performances due to the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Electric Insulating Materials and Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,486 Views
13 Pages

This work investigates the effects of the surface errors of the satellite antenna on the detection performance of the space VLBI system. First, the relationship between the surface errors and the antenna gain loss is analyzed, and then the influence...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,581 Views
14 Pages

Optimization Research on the Space-V-Type Biomimetic Surface Grooves of a Marine Centrifugal Pump

  • Hua Li,
  • Zifeng Yu,
  • Runan Hua,
  • Chenqi Li and ,
  • Chao Guo,
  • Houlin Liu and
  • Liang Dong
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 November 2023

The biomimetic surface with Space-V grooves can effectively reduce flow resistance and noise. Our investigation was in order to further enhance the drag reduction and noise reduction performance of a marine centrifugal pump with Space-V-groove-shaped...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Optimization of Fluid Machinery)
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  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,575 Views
16 Pages

9 August 2016

The rapid increase of impervious surfaces and the dense development that accompanies urban growth has reduced the amount of green space in urban landscapes and increased urban surface temperatures. Accordingly, the greening of urban spaces has been p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Challenges)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,401 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2022

The present study focuses on the examination of the propagation of plane surface waves on a coated half-space, which is accompanied by the magnetic field force, and the normal mechanical loading, due to Winkler’s elastic foundation. The study i...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,222 Views
10 Pages

25 November 2018

Considering the Weierstrass data as ( ψ , f , g ) = ( 2 , 1 - z - m , z n ) , we introduce a two-parameter family of Henneberg-type minimal surface that we call H m , n for positive integers ( m , n ) by using t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
714 Views
24 Pages

8 April 2026

This study investigates a typical valley city, Lanzhou, China, to reveal the nonlinear relationships and interaction mechanisms between gray–green space morphology and seasonal diurnal land surface temperature (LST) using multi-source remote se...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,168 Views
17 Pages

17 May 2024

Urban green space (UGS) has been recognized as a key factor in enhancing the urban ecosystem balance, particularly in arid areas. It is often considered an effective means to mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect. In this study, the reference c...

(This article belongs to the Topic Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,631 Views
21 Pages

8 May 2015

Soil and vegetation component temperatures in non-isothermal pixels encapsulate more physical meaning and are more applicable than composite temperatures. The component temperatures however are difficult to be obtained from thermal infrared (TIR) rem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Development and Validation of Remote Sensing Products for Terrestrial, Hydrological, and Ecological Applications at the Regional Scale)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
735 Views
30 Pages

25 July 2026

Accurate estimation of soil surface moisture (SSM) is essential for various applications, including hydrological modeling, precision agriculture, and drought monitoring. With advancements in SAR data acquisition and modeling techniques, accurate retr...

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9 Citations
3,080 Views
16 Pages

The present manuscript focuses on the study of surface wave propagation in a rotating coated viscoelastic half-space and its response to external forces comprised of the magnetic field and gravitational forces. A celebrated normal mode analysis proce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Computational Physics with Fractional Application)
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595 Views
18 Pages

11 March 2026

In this work, we further investigate the surface wave attenuation performance of elastic metasurfaces composed of in-filled pipes in a layered half-space, focusing on the dispersion relations and transmission properties. Particularly, both Rayleigh w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Coatings and Interfacial Engineering for Sustainable Civil Engineering Materials)
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86 Citations
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24 Pages

Studying the Association between Green Space Characteristics and Land Surface Temperature for Sustainable Urban Environments: An Analysis of Beijing and Islamabad

  • Shahid Naeem,
  • Chunxiang Cao,
  • Waqas Ahmed Qazi,
  • Mehdi Zamani and ,
  • Chen Wei,
  • Bipin Kumar Acharya and
  • Asid Ur Rehman
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Increasing trends of urbanization lead to vegetation degradation in big cities and affect the urban thermal environment. This study investigated (1) the cooling effect of urban green space spatial patterns on Land Surface Temperature (LST); (2) how t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Environment Mapping Using GIS)
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302 Views
24 Pages

19 September 2026

Estimating multiscale ocean-surface states from sparse observations is challenging because the state is high-dimensional, sampling is irregular, and posterior distributions can be strongly non-Gaussian. We develop Latent-LWETKF, a structured latent-s...

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38 Citations
6,431 Views
18 Pages

18 January 2022

The two most common land cover types in urban areas, artificial surface (AS) and urban blue-green space (UBGS), interact with land surface temperature (LST) and exhibit competitive effects, namely, heating and cooling effects. Understanding the varia...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,358 Views
33 Pages

24 March 2025

Urban green spaces (UGSs) are crucial for mitigating land surface temperature (LST) in the context of climate change and extremely high temperatures. Although numerous studies have explored the impact of UGSs on the LST, a systematic understanding of...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
52 Citations
8,888 Views
17 Pages

Impacts of Urban Green Space on Land Surface Temperature from Urban Block Perspectives

  • Hongmin An,
  • Hongyan Cai,
  • Xinliang Xu,
  • Zhi Qiao and
  • Dongrui Han

13 September 2022

Urban green space (UGS) can be regarded as an effective approach to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) effects. Many studies have investigated the impacts of composition and configuration of UGS on land surface temperature (LST), while little attention...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure Monitoring Using Remote Sensing: Current Progress and Future Vision)
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  • Open Access
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23 Pages

Multipath Interference in a 4 × 4 Mirror-Array Intelligent Reflecting Surface for Free-Space Optical Communication

  • Andreas Rittler,
  • Jonas Wiedemann,
  • Vasilis Papanikolaou,
  • Hedieh Ajam and ,
  • Robert Schober and
  • Bernhard Schmauss
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We present a flexible, centimeter-scale 4 × 4 macro mirror array serving as an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for free-space optical communication (FSOC) links in urban environments. The realized array integrates a compact, high-precision...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
674 Views
28 Pages

21 July 2026

Accurate and scalable extraction of geomorphic features from LiDAR-derived terrain data is important for environmental monitoring, land use planning, and geohazard assessment. Recent deep learning advances have introduced state-space models, such as...

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1 Citations
611 Views
24 Pages

WMamba: An Efficient Inpainting Framework for Sea Surface Vector Winds Using Attention-Structured State Space Duality

  • Lilan Huang,
  • Junhao Zhu,
  • Qingguo Su,
  • Junqiang Song and ,
  • Kaijun Ren,
  • Weicheng Ni and
  • Xinjie Shi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 February 2026

Ku-band scatterometers lose extensive Sea Surface Vector Wind (SSVW) observations under extreme winds, heavy precipitation, or instrument anomalies, degrading forecast and assimilation skill. Traditional interpolation fails to reconstruct non-linear...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,886 Views
15 Pages

Geometric Characterizations of Canal Surfaces in Minkowski 3-Space II

  • Jinhua Qian,
  • Mengfei Su,
  • Xueshan Fu and
  • Seoung Dal Jung

5 August 2019

Canal surfaces are defined and divided into nine types in Minkowski 3-space E 1 3 , which are obtained as the envelope of a family of pseudospheres S 1 2 , pseudohyperbolic spheres H 0 2 , or lightlike cones Q 2 , wh...

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31 Citations
4,743 Views
20 Pages

19 October 2022

Urban greening has been widely regarded as the most effective, lasting, and economical strategy for alleviating the effects of urban heat islands (UHIs). Previous studies on the cooling effect of urban green spaces (UGSs) tend to analyze the correlat...

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1,613 Views
6 Pages

1 December 2004

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a summary of known results and the definition of the time-like ruled surface with the space-like generating space in the Minkowski space IR1n, and to present some characteristic results related with minimali...

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544 Views
25 Pages

9 May 2026

A space-based bistatic passive radar system, typically utilizing a satellite as the illuminator of opportunity and ground or aerial platforms as receivers, offers significant advantages for wide-area maritime surveillance, robust anti-jamming perform...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,157 Views
9 Pages

1 December 2011

In the Euclidean space the Darboux vector may be interpreted kinematically as the direction of the instantaneous axis of rotation in the moving trihedron. In this paper we mainly study the Darboux vector of ruled surfaces in pseudo-Galilean space. We...

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3 Citations
672 Views
12 Pages

Dual THA-Surfaces in 3-Dimensional Galilean Space

  • Yanlin Li,
  • Mehraj Ahmad Lone and
  • Arshi Yousuf

26 February 2026

The Galilean space G3 occupies a central position in the analysis of classical kinematics and provides the geometric framework for representing Newtonian space-time. In this paper, we concentrate on classifying dual THA-surfaces in G3 and classify sp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Its Application in Differential Geometry and Topology, 4th Edition)
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1 Citations
581 Views
12 Pages

Surfaces of Revolution with Constant Mean Curvature in Galilean 3-Space

  • İsmet Gölgeleyen,
  • Yusuf Yaylı and
  • Elif Yaren Bulgan

21 March 2026

Revolution surfaces with zero mean curvature in the Galilean 3-space have been extensively studied in the literature. However, revolution surfaces with non-zero constant mean curvature in this geometric setting have not yet been investigated in a sys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis)
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485 Views
11 Pages

28 April 2026

This paper focuses on the study of quadric surfaces in three-dimensional Euclidean space that satisfy the finite II-type Gauss map condition, a concept introduced firstly by B.-Y. Chen in its first fundamental form; later it was applied by other rese...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Its Application in Differential Geometry and Topology, 4th Edition)
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223 Views
15 Pages

26 September 2026

This paper investigates the extrinsic differential geometry of curves lying on a spacelike surface embedded in de Sitter 3-space. By employing the de Sitter Darboux frame along such a curve, we introduce a spacelike osculating Darboux vector field sa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Differential Geometry and Singularity Theory, 3rd Edition)
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2 Citations
3,102 Views
18 Pages

11 December 2018

By generalizing the notion of the pointwise 1-type Gauss map, the generalized 1-type Gauss map has been recently introduced. Without any assumption, we classified all possible ruled surfaces with the generalized 1-type Gauss map in a 3-dimensional Mi...

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6 Citations
1,812 Views
14 Pages

12 March 2025

Ruled surfaces in Minkowski 3-space play a crucial role in differential geometry and have significant applications in physics and engineering. This study explores the fundamental properties of ruled surfaces via orthogonal modified frame in Minkowski...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis and Their Related Applications)
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On Factorable Surfaces of Finite Chen Type in the Lorentz–Heisenberg Space H3

  • Brahim Medjahdi,
  • Rafik Medjati,
  • Hanifi Zoubir,
  • Abdelkader Belhenniche and
  • Roman Chertovskih

24 July 2025

This paper is about a problem at the intersection of differential geometry, spectral analysis and the theory of manifolds. The study of finite-type subvarieties was initiated by Chen in the 1970s, with the aim of obtaining improved estimates for the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Differential Geometry and Its Applications)
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3 Citations
659 Views
21 Pages

11 March 2026

We propose a comprehensive rotation-minimizing (RM) Darboux framework for the study of curve theory and relativistic ruled surfaces in Minkowski three-space E13. The construction merges the adaptability of the classical Darboux frame to surface geome...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Applications: Differential Geometry)
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27 Citations
6,867 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2019

In this study, the split window (SW) method was applied for land surface temperature (LST) retrieval using Landsat 8 in two apple orchards (Glindow, Altlandsberg). Four images were acquired during high demand of irrigation water from July to August 2...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Management in Agriculture and Industry: Challenges, Trends and Opportunities)
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1,013 Views
31 Pages

Urban Green Space Structure and Land Surface Temperature in Khung Bang Kachao, Thailand

  • Chayanit Homsin,
  • Wirongrong Duangjai,
  • Sapit Diloksumpun,
  • Jamroon Srichaichana and
  • Montathip Sommeechai

22 September 2026

Rapid urbanization has intensified the urban heat island (UHI) effect in Southeast Asian megacities, necessitating effective nature-based solutions. This study evaluates the cooling capacity of diverse green spaces in Khung Bang Kachao (KBK), Thailan...

(This article belongs to the Topic Land Cover and Ecological Change)
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966 Views
15 Pages

A four-quadrant low-coherence envelope detection method was proposed for measuring the surface spacing of optical components, eliminating the requirement for precise control of the delay line scanning step to generate a π/2 phase shift. The method...

(This article belongs to the Section New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems)
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29 Citations
7,414 Views
24 Pages

8 September 2022

Climate change affects the urban population’s health and quality of life. Urban green spaces (UGS) underpin several essential ecosystem services, amongst them climate regulation. Urban vegetation mitigates high temperatures and, thus, reduces t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Applications in Urban Ecosystem Services)
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2 Citations
1,112 Views
21 Pages

Involute Partner-Ruled Surfaces Formed by Involutes of Spacelike Curves in Minkowski Three-Space

  • Özgür Boyacıoğlu Kalkan,
  • Süleyman Şenyurt,
  • Davut Canlı and
  • Luca Grilli

28 April 2025

We introduced the concept of involute partner-ruled surfaces, which are formed by the involutes of spacelike curves and additional conditions ensuring the presence of definite surface normals in Minkowski three-space. First, we provided the criteria...

(This article belongs to the Section Geometry and Topology)
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246 Views
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Surface Cooling and Modeled Carbon-Equivalent Potential of Urban Blue–Green Spaces in Fuzhou, China

  • Wenwei Lin,
  • He Huang,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Kunneng Jiang and ,
  • Jielan Li,
  • Sijin Liu,
  • Qunyue Liu,
  • Hongxin Wang and
  • Xianshu Xu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

28 September 2026

We evaluated 30 blue and 31 green spaces in Fuzhou using a July land surface temperature (LST) composite from four quality-controlled Landsat 8 scenes acquired during 2020–2022. A cubic temperature–distance procedure produced positive coo...

(This article belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
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3 Citations
1,039 Views
28 Pages

RETRACTED: Higher-Dimensional Geometry and Singularity Structure of Osculating Type-II Ruled Surfaces in Lorentzian Spaces

  • Mohammed Messaoudi,
  • Marin Marin,
  • Nidal E. Taha,
  • Ghozail Sh. Al-Mutairi and
  • Sayed Saber

9 January 2026

In Minkowski 3-space, we establish a geometric framework to osculate Type-II ruled surfaces by utilizing the Type-II Bishop frame in (E13). Our analysis extends to higher-order singularities such as butterflies and pyramids, including explicit singul...

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5 Citations
1,562 Views
18 Pages

Theoretical Analysis of Surface Settlement During Parallel Construction of a Double-Track Tunnel with Small Spacing

  • Yanao Liu,
  • Yanfeng Li,
  • Guojie Chen,
  • Yuanhui Li and ,
  • Jialong Li and
  • Jiaxu Jin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 March 2025

The construction of urban subway tunnels typically induces soil settlement within a specific radius of the surrounding area. However, the accuracy of current methods for predicting ground deformation curves corresponding to the excavation of double-t...

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1 Citations
3,283 Views
11 Pages

9 January 2022

We introduce the real minimal surfaces family by using the Weierstrass data (ζ−m,ζm) for ζ∈C, m∈Z≥2, then compute the irreducible algebraic surfaces of the surfaces family in three-dimensional Euclidean space E3. In...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Differential Geometry II)
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47 Citations
7,905 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Temporal Land Surface Temperature and Vegetation Greenness in Urban Green Spaces of Puebla, Mexico

  • Filoteo Gomez-Martinez,
  • Kirsten M. de Beurs,
  • Jennifer Koch and
  • Jeffrey Widener

3 February 2021

The urban heat island (UHI) effect is a global problem that is likely to grow as a result of urban population expansion. Multiple studies conclude that green spaces and waterbodies can reduce urban heat islands. However, previous studies often treat...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
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7 Citations
3,591 Views
30 Pages

11 July 2024

Research has demonstrated that urban green spaces play a crucial role in mitigating the severe urban heat island (UHI) effect. However, existing studies often suffer from limitations such as the neglect of the cooling effect of water bodies within th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Urbanscapes: The Role of Green Infrastructure on the Resilience of Ecosystem Services)
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2 Citations
1,913 Views
10 Pages

1 December 1996

In this paper , considering the Darboux instantaneous rotation vector of a solid perpendicular trihedron in the Minkowski 3-space R13, the Frenet instantaneous rotation vector was stated for the Frenet trihedron of a space -like space curve (c) with...

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4 Citations
1,739 Views
16 Pages

27 December 2022

In this paper, appropriate Lp bounds for particular classes of parabolic Marcinkiewicz integrals along surfaces of revolution on product spaces are obtained. These bounds allow us to use Yano’s extrapolation argument to obtain the Lp boundednes...

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