AIRCRAFT 4D TRAJECTORY PREDICTION IN CIVIL AVIATION: A REVIEW

Aircraft 4D Trajectory Prediction in Civil Aviation: A Review

Aircraft four dimensional (4D, including longitude, latitude, altitude and time) trajectory prediction is a key technology for existing automation systems and the basis for future trajectory-based operations.This paper firstly summarizes the background and significance of the trajectory prediction problems and then introduces the definition and bas

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Can Global Citizenship be a Part of the Post-2015 Agenda?

2015 is an important year for international development with the agreement of a new set of targets that will supersede the Millennium Development Goals.This article maps some ongoing and upcoming development policy initiatives that development educators need to Western belts engage with in order to strengthen the global citizenship agenda.It argues

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Drop-On-Demand Lubrication of Gears: A Feasibility Study

Different lubrication methods such as oil dip or injection lubrication are used in gearboxes to lubricate tribological contacts and to dissipate frictional heat.To improve resource and energy efficiency, novel needs-based lubrication methods like the drop-on-demand lubrication are being developed.It includes an ink-jet nozzle driven by a piezo elem

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NoMAS: A Computational Approach to Find Mutated Subnetworks Associated With Survival in Genome-Wide Cancer Studies

Next-generation sequencing technologies allow to measure somatic mutations in a large number of patients from the same cancer type: one of the main goals in their analysis is the identification of mutations associated with clinical parameters.The identification of such relationships is hindered by extensive genetic heterogeneity in tumors, with dif

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