Dr. J. L. Hendley, Civil Medical Officer, Balasore, is allowed furlough for one year, under Article 371 of the Civil Service Regulations, with effect from the 13th April 1S96, or any subsequent date on which he may avail himself of it. The services of Surgeon-Lieutenant L. Rogers, M.B., F.R.C.S., Indian Medical Service (Bengal), are placed temporarily at the disposal of the Chief Commissioner o...

In this paper we developed a control scheme for a Quanser Flexible Link experiment. The purpose of the paper is to design a controller which reduces (eliminates) the undamped oscillations of the tip of the beam while commanding the tip to a desired position. First, we design a control scheme with a model predictive controller. Model predictive control (MPC) is a well-known technique used to (su...

The music is able to awaken the most varied emotions in humans. According to Robert et al. (1988), listening to music, the ear transforms sound into electrical signals reaching the brain leading to increased production of endorphins. This hormone causes a sensation of wellbeing and relaxes the body, reducing heart rate and blood pressure. Human organism is endowed with a sound system capable of...

In October 2013 the MARLANT N02OR team of DRDC, Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA) was asked by Commander Canadian Fleet Atlantic (COMCANFLTLANT) to collaborate with the Commanding Officer (CO) and Weapons Officer (WpnsO) from HMCS Charlottetown on a high-level analysis of the change – if any – in the scope and complexity of the fleet’s operations over time. More concisely, the...

Operating a rover on Mars is not possible using teleoperations due to the distance involved and the bandwidth limitations. Instead, rovers are autonomous and go about their operations in an unsupervised mode. To operate these rovers requires sophisticated tools to make operators knowledgeable of the terrain, hazards, features of interest, and rover state and limitations, and to support building...

The Plan Execution Interchange Language (PLEXIL) is an open source synchronous language developed by NASA for commanding and monitoring autonomous systems. This paper reports the development of the PLEXIL’s Formal Interactive Verification Environment (PLEXIL5), a graphical interface to the formal executable semantics of PLEXIL. Among its main features, PLEXIL5 provides model checking of plans w...

The financialization hypothesis (FH) is a popular leitmotiv which argues that the financial system conquers commanding heights of capitalist economy. It maintains finance gained independence from productive-capital and began to dominate it. FH bases this argument on several empirical claims concerning size strategic role entities. This article offers critique crucial analytical FH. overrates im...