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Concentration of the distance between points in the unit ball
No full textWe prove that in every finite dimensional normed space, for “most” pairs (x, y) of points in the unit ball, ║x − y║ is more than √2(1 − ε). As a consequence, we obtain a result proved by Bourgain, using QS-decomposition, that guarantees an exponentially large number of points in the unit ball any two of which are separated by more than √2(1 − ε)
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A letter from William L. Ball to Dr. Hector P. Garcia.
No full textA letter from William L. Ball. United States Secretary of the Navy, to Dr. Hector P. Garcia regarding a recent meeting between the two
Generating ball trajectory in soccer video sequences
No full textThis paper demonstrates innovative techniques for estimating the trajectory of a soccer ball, using fixed cameras with constant calibration parameters. In contrast with broadcast coverage, for fixed camera data, the ball is often rendered with poor resolution away from the image centre. The rapidly moving ball is subject to motion-blur, caused by finite shutter speeds and interlaced fields, resulting in variable shape, size and colour. The velocity estimated from Kalman tracking is used in both normalising ball size and filtering the ball from false alarms. Furthermore, occlusion-reasoning and tracking-back methods are utilized to estimate its position when it is occluded, and also to remove false alarms. Finally, temporal hysteresis based thresholding of the ball likelihood is applied for trajectory filtering to improve the robustness and continuity of the tracked ball. Promising experimental results from several long sequences are reported
Tracking the soccer ball using multiple fixed cameras
No full textThis paper demonstrates innovative techniques for estimating the trajectory of a soccer ball from multiple fixed cameras. Since the ball is nearly always moving and frequently occluded, its size and shape appearance varies over time and between cameras. Knowledge about the soccer domain is utilized and expressed in terms of field, object and motion models to distinguish the ball from other movements in the tracking and matching processes. Using ground plane velocity, longevity, normalized size and color features, each of the tracks obtained from a Kalman filter is assigned with a likelihood measure that represents the ball. This measure is further refined by reasoning through occlusions and back-tracking in the track history. This can be demonstrated to improve the accuracy and continuity of the results. Finally, a simple 3D trajectory model is presented, and the estimated 3D ball positions are fed back to constrain the 2D processing for more efficient and robust detection and tracking. Experimental results with quantitative evaluations from several long sequences are reported
Catalog of 382 weak stars of the zone D. M. + 2° by L. de Ball : F. Folie's report
No full textThe author establishes a report on the L. de Ball’s work on the catalog of 382 weak stars of the zone D. M. + 2°.L’auteur établit un rapport sur un travail de L. de Ball sur le catalogue de 382 étoiles faibles de la zone D. M. +2°
The 2010 regulations on golf groove design: impact on ball flight characteristics during a controlled shot.
No full textThe purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in the amount of spin that can be generated during a controlled golf shot, as a result of the 2010 rule change regarding restrictions applied to the design of the grooves on the clubface implemented by the United States Golf Association and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club. Ten experienced golfers (mean ± SD; age, 23.0 ± 0.67 yr; playing experience, 13.2 ± 1.6 yr; handicap, 1.6 ± 1.4) were required to play a total of 120 shots inside a state of the art golf simulator with 3 clubs consisting of ‘old’ pre 2010 U-groove design and ‘new’ post 2010 V-groove design. With the U and V grooved clubs, participants played 10 shots from a fairway mat and 10 shots from a rough mat using a 9 iron, PW and SW. Backspin (RPM) and, as a measure of accuracy, distance landed from the pin (yds) were recorded. Compared to the U-grooves, the newer V-groove design imparted significantly less backspin from both the fairway and rough surfaces (P < 0.05), additionally, shots with all clubs were consistently further away from the pin (P < 0.05). The newer groove design does not enable players to impart as much backspin on the ball as they previously could and our data suggest that the recent change in golf club design might therefore reward driving accuracy
The specific selection function effect on clinker grinding efficiency in a dry batch ball mill
No full textDry grinding experiments on cement clinker were carried out using a laboratory batch ball mill equipped with a torque measurement. The influence of the ball size distribution on the specific selection function can be approached by laboratory runs using mono-size balls. The breakage is more efficient with maximal specific selection functions at the initial size reduction stage. But, in terms of cement finish grinding all stages of grinding are determinant for the production of a required Blaine surface area (3500 cm2/g). So, the choice of ball size according to a maximal specific selection function leads to an increase of the energy consumption. In addition, investigations on the mono-sized fractions and on the crude material (size minus 2.8 mm) demonstrate that the energy efficiency factor can be optimized using ball size corresponding to relatively low specific selection function
Parametric impact characterisation of a solid sports ball, WITH a view to developing a standard core for the GAA Sliotar
No full textThe main aim of this research was to characterise the dynamic impact behaviour of the sliotar core. Viscoelastic characterisation of the balls was conducted for a range of impact speeds. Modern polymer balls exhibited strain and strain-rate sensitivity while traditional multi-compositional balls exhibited strain dependency. The non-linear viscoelastic response was defined by two values of stiffness, initial and bulk stiffness.
Traditional balls were up to 2.5 times stiffer than the modern types, with this magnitude being rate-dependent. The greater rate of increase of traditional ball stiffness produced a more non-linear COR velocity-dependence compared to modern balls. The dynamic stiffness results demonstrated limited applicability of quasi-static testing and springtheory equations. Analysis of ball deformation behaviour demonstrated that centre-of mass displacement and diameter compression values were not consistently equivalent for all ball types. The contribution of manufacturing conditions to ball performance was investigated by conducting extensive prototyping experiments. Manufacturing parameters of temperature, pressure and material composition were varied to produce a range of balls. Polymer hardness affected stiffness but not energy dissipation, with increased hardness increasing ball stiffness. The nucleating additive influenced ball COR, with increased additive tending to reduce ball COR, but this effect was sensitive to polymer grade. The impact response of the ball was simulated using three mathematical models. The first model was shown to replicate ball behaviour to only a limited degree, despite being used previously with reported success for other ball types. The second model exhibited a reasonable representation of ball impact response that was universally applicable to all tested ball types; however, the accuracy in terms of predicting force-displacement response was not as high as required for broad range implementation. The third model exhibited significantly better accuracy in simulating ball response. The force values generated from this model exhibited up to 95% agreement with experimental data
Improving the surface finish of concave and convex surfaces using a ball burnishing process
No full textThe ball burnishing process is done to improve the surface finish of workpieces that have been previously machined. In this article we present
the results of tests performed with this process that was applied to workpieces with a convex or concave surface of two different materials:
aluminum A92017 and steel G10380. An experiment to do the tests was designed. The results of measurements of surface roughness are presented
in this paper as well. These results are compared to those measured in the workpieces before being burnished. After that conclusions are drawn
about the improvement of surface roughness applied to the workpieces through the ball burnishing process. The main innovation of this paper is
that we work with concave and convex geometries. We also obtain a table of recomended parameter values for the process
The Influence of Co-designers on the Generation and Evaluation of Solution Alternatives.
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