We plunge decentralized control problems into modular ones to benefit from the know-how of modular control theory: any decentralized control problem is associated to a natural modular control problem, which over-approximates it. Then, we discuss how a solution of the latter problem delivers a solution of the former.

Target based chemical screens are a mainstay of modern drug discovery, but the effectiveness of this reductionist approach is being questioned in light of declines in pharmaceutical R & D efficiency. In recent years, phenotypic screens have gained increasing acceptance as a complementary/alternative approach to early drug discovery. We discuss the various model organisms used in phenotypic scre...

Friction stir welding has become a popular forging technique used in many applications. The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) evaluates this method to seal the 5 cm thick copper canisters that will contain the spent nuclear fuel. To produce repetitive, high quality welds, the process must be controlled, and today a cascade controller is used to keep the desired stir zone t...

Numerical and experimental methods are described for the investigation of an oscillating-wing generator or wingmill. The numerical approach applies a previously developed, unsteady, in-compressible panel method incorporating a non-linear, deforming wake model to compute the unsteady ow about an airfoil undergoing speciied pitch and plunge motions. An experimental model is described which can du...

Recent studies have shown the surprising effectiveness of small mass-ratio approximation (SMR) in modeling relativistic two-body problem even at comparable masses. Up to now this has been demonstrated only during inspiral, before binary transitions into plunge and merger. Here we examine binding energy nonspinning black hole simulations with mass ratios from $20\ensuremath{\mathbin:}1$ equal ma...

Cretaceous mafic dykes in the Moyar Shear Zone (MSZ) area, north Kerala, India, provide signatures to probe into the nature of their source and thereby the evolution of the Mesozoic lithospheric mantle beneath the South Indian Granulite Terrain (SIGT). Bulk of the dykes in northern parts of Kerala is broadly in spatial association with the shear system. Mafic dykes striking NE-SW, NWSE, NNW-SSE...