R. Taylor Cole

Chapter 2 – MILITARY RELEVANCE Chapter Lead : R . Taylor

Unmanned Military Vehicles (UMVs) are enablers of military capability with clear endorsement at the highest level. Many NATO Nations have active programmes to develop and integrate UMV systems into the front line military force mix. UMVs are most commonly characterised as dealing well with 3D tasks – dull, dirty and dangerous. They are used extensively in intelligence, surveillance and reconnai...

Numerical extraction of Cole-Cole impedance parameters from step response

In this paper we propose a numerical method to extract the four parameters (Ro, R∞, C, and α) that characterize a single-dispersion Cole-Cole impedance model from its step response, based on modelling the step response using fractional calculus, without requiring direct measurement of the real and imaginary impedance parts. MATLAB simulations using Cole-Cole impedances of fruit tissues with α <...

Taylor Expansions of R-transforms, Application to Supports and Moments

We prove that a probability measure on the real line has a moment of order p (even integer), if and only if its R-transform admits a Taylor expansion with p terms. We also prove a weaker version of this result when p is odd. We then apply this to prove that a probability measure whose R-transform extends analytically to a ball with center zero is compactly supported, and that a free infinitely ...

Brad R . Taylor Children ’ s Rights with Endogenous Fertility

This paper uses hypothetical contractarianism to consider the value of children’s rights laws as a means of protecting children. Laws protecting children from their parents have the unintended but predictable consequence of making child-rearing less desirable for some parents and thereby reducing the number of children born. Such laws therefore produce a trade-off between the expected wellbeing...

Rufus Cole, 1913