Global increase in trade leads to congestion of maritime traffic at the ports. This often leads to increased maritime incidents or near-miss situations. To improve maritime safety while maintaining efficiency, movement of vessels needs to be better coordinated. Our work formulates this problem of coordinating the paths of vessels as a multi-agent path-finding (MAPF) problem. To address this pro...

Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), already identified as a human animal carcinogen, was selected as a model agent to explore an area of concern for single and intermittent low level exposure. In traditional cancer bioassay, animals are repeatedly exposed over their lifespan to a dose of suspected chemical. In the current studies rats and mice were exposed in an inhalation chamber to single one-hour ...

The Voronoi Covariance Measure of a compact set K of R is a tensor-valued measure that encodes geometrical information on K and which is known to be resilient to Hausdorff noise but sensitive to outliers. In this article, we generalize this notion to any distance-like function δ and define the δ-VCM. Combining the VCM with the distance to a measure and also with the witnessed-k-distance, we get...

This paper investigates mechanisms for the private provision of a public good which utilize competition to incentivize contributions. Theory predicts that “all-pay” competition is particularly effective for fundraising. Within this class of mechanisms different types of lotteries and all-pay auctions are analyzed and ranked. Four all-pay competition mechanisms are then examined in a laboratory ...

Acetylcholinesterase (AchE) activity was studied in pigmented rats 6 h to 1 y after hemilabyrinthectomy. A strong reduction of this activity was localized in the rostrocaudal extent of both the prepositus hypoglossi nucleus and the medial vestibular nucleus (that is, medial vestibular complex: VCm) ipsilateral to the lesion 6 h after the lesion. This deficit persisted within some areas disperse...

Vascular calcifications (VCs) are actively regulated biological processes associated with crystallization of hydroxyapatite in the extracellular matrix and in cells of the media (VCm) or intima (VCi) of the arterial wall. Both patterns of VC often coincide and occur in patients with type II diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and other less frequent disorders; VCs are also typical in senile degen...

In this paper, and mixed / controllers are designed for a hard disk drive (HDD) using linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). In the proposed algorithm, the problem of minimizing track misregistration (TMR) in the presence of unmodeled dynamics of voice-coil motor (VCM) is formulated as robust and mixed / problems. Additional stack variables are introduced to characterize and performances. The simul...

A 10-bit 120MS/s successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in 40-nm CMOS is presented. To diminish the fluctuation of common-mode voltage (VCM) and switching energy during conversion, a VCM-stable scheme adopted without increasing design complexity to VCM buffers. Moreover, tri-switch sampling employed this design. Together with binary-scaled recombination weight...

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) was introduced by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a mechanism to reverse loss of forests carbon stocks in developing countries. REDD+ operates basis performance-based payments. This article focuses market-based voluntary market (VCM). It assesses viability using indigenous lands Brazilian ...

The lateral position of the head is controlled by a servo loop. During lateral tape displacement, an error signal is generated and the head is moved by the VCM to avoid track misregistration. However, the bandwidth of the VCM is limited, mainly due to mass and available power. LTM frequencies higher than the bandwidth of the servo actuator, generally referred to as high frequency LTM, cannot be...