Michael Zakharov

• Ph. D.
• Developer at Betsson Group

The coin toss experiment has a quite comprehensive statistical description but does not have a complete theoretical foundation yet. This article contributes to the theoretical research of the coin toss by presenting yet another point of view to the coin rotation and the coin flight after the coin toss. We describe the coin toss as a dynamic system...

A system for monitoring vital signs of a pet animal comprises an annular band, an accelerometer configured to measure at least one of resting patterns, activity patterns, movement patterns, position patterns relating to, for example, the pet animal relieving itself, lameness and scratching, and a non-accelerometer sensor configured to measure at le...

The present invention relates to apparatuses and methods for monitoring the health of animals, and, more particularly for monitoring the health through estimation of thermoregulation ability based on a combination of the animals skin temperature, ambient temperature, and activity level.

A novel model of thermal regulation of homoeothermic animals has been implemented. The model is based on a non-equilibrium thermodynamic approach which introduces entropy balance and the rate of entropy generation as a formulation of The Second Law. The model explains linear correlation between an animals skin and environment temperatures using the...

A novel model of thermal regulation of homoeothermic animals.

The invention relates to banknote identification. More particularly, this invention relates to optical methods and systems for the automatic identification of paper currency from differ- ent issuers and in different denominations.

Methods and systems are provided for the identification of banknotes using a process that comprises two stages. During training, a set of discriminators is developed using a training set of banknotes, which is representative of banknotes of different issuers and denominations. During an operational phase a scanned image of a banknote (26) to be ide...

Updating a file which is currently open is accomplished by allowing current users to continue accessing the original file while redirecting new users to an updated version. When user activity permits, the updated version is substituted for the original file. An auxiliary program detects when a server application attempts to access an out-of-date fi...

A file system for distributing content in a data network, includes a file replication and transfer system and a replicated file receiver system. The file replication and transfer system includes an interface file system which looks for changes made to contents of a file created and stored in an associated work file system; and a file system monitor...

The paper considers the possibility; of including satellite data and the results of their processing in various information systems. An approach to the construction of satellite data archives is presented, which has the ability to simplify considerably the solution of the problem. Examples are given of the use of this approach in the solution of sp...

The paper analyses the experience obtained during the creation and exploitation of a system to receive, process and disseminate satellite data, covering the whole of the Russian territory, in support of the forest fire services. The system was based on the collection and partial processing of data from regional observations. The modern capabilities...

The experience obtained during the organization and operation of a system for the on-line reception, processing, and dissemination of satellite data covering the entire territory of Russia for the forest fire protection service is analyzed. The system is based on the collection and partial processing of data by observation regions. The present-day...

This paper discusses the possibilities of building satellite data archives that provide operational access to data for the remote users.

The paper presents a brief description of the open system for operational access to satellite data, created by the Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.

The possibilities of using the thinning procedures in satellite image processing are discussed. Several algorithms of lines detection of satellite images and results of their implementation are presented.

The various tasks of satellite data pre-processing, that could be carried out on local receiving stations are discussed. Several possibilities of their realization are analyzed. The article is based on the experience obtained from development and maintenance of data processing system for the SCANOR image receiving and processing personal station.

The paper considered organization of NOAA data users support. An opportunity for local receiving centers coordination is discussed. Prototype of information center is described.

Multi-functional MS-Windows 3.1 application for satellite images data processing and a system for it's modification are discussed.

The software package for multiband image segmentation and classification is described. The package is intended to process NOAA'S AVHRR data and runs under MS-Windows 3.1 environment. Some examples of the processed images of clouds and sea-surface are shown.

A possibility for high-precision (up to 1 pixel) geographical referencing of AVHRR data is shown. Some fast algorithms for latitude-longitude grid and standard projection building are discussed. An application for MS-Windows 3.1 which includes these algorithms is described.

A program for the NOAA AVHRR data processing using personal computer is described. This program enables: data reprocessing, computation of different temperature parameters, computation of vegetation index, estimation of the water-vapour concentration for the cloudless atmosphere, operations with 2D histograms, development of the classification algo...

A scope for the data storage format to be organized for the data from the NOAA satellite series, is considered to provide ease of their usage to solve local problems. A possibility of this format design basing on the TIFF format, is analysed. The approach to solve the named problems using standard means of the TIFF format is shown.

The authors outline how a decentralized ground reception and processing network for satellite remote sensing data has the potential to provide information more efficiently and rapidly than Russia’s existing network of a few large central facilities that are charged with supplying preprocessed data to the user community. The components and linkages...

Structure of the data processing procedure is analysed for the data which are received from the NOAA satellites (HRGT mode) by a data receiving personal station. A possibility of the data receiving and processing procedure to be realized on the basis of the PC/AT 386 computer, is also given. The computer programs forming a base computer of the stat...

In Hamiltonian systems that are close to nondegenerate integrable systems, Arnold diffusion does not arise in the case of two degrees of freedom; for a larger number of degrees of freedom the diffusion is, generally speaking, exponentially slow. If a nonperturbed system is degenerate, diffusion proceeding according to a stochastic pattern may arise...

When particles within a stochastic (chaotic) web in phase space are accelerated to high energies by magnetic fields, the web properties show similarities to the quasi-crystal state. Examples of webs with five- and sevenfold symmetries are given. The application of this theory to the problem of adiabatic invariance in a magnetic field is considered.

A representation of the dynamics of charged particles in the field of a wave packet and in a transverse magnetic field is obtained and analyzed. It is shown that, for rational ratios between the wave frequencies and the Larmor frequency, the phase surface of the system is covered by a stochastic web in which the dynamics of the particles is chaotic...

The paper presents a mapping which generates ordered structures with a symmetry axis of arbitrary order. The generator can be attributed to particle motion in a potential with two competing symmetries. As an example, planes are tiled with five- and sevenfold symmetry axes.