The paper presents the first result on ISS properties of dynamic unicycle models describing nonholonomic mobile robots. It is known that ISS is related to smooth stabilizability, however this relation cannot exclude the possibility of non smoothly stabilizable systems to possess ISS properties. In fact, it is shown that in a certain topology that seems to suit the nonholonomic nature of the mob...

In this paper, we investigate set Input to State Stability (set-ISS) in the context of multi-agent systems, specifically when agent interaction is spatial in nature. We review the definition of Input-to-State (ISS) Lyapunov functions with respect to sets, from which we provide a structural formulation of set-ISS that accommodates the local and per-agent nature of interacting systems. We argue t...

1This research was supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grant number 2011-68004-30336 form the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 2Corresponding author: [email protected] ABSTRACT: Little is known of the consequences of divergent selection for residual feed intake (RFI) on intestinal digestion capacity, particularly during immune system stimulati...

Over 1.5 million percutaneous coronary revascularisation procedures are performed annually world wide, most being intracoronary stenting. Despite enormous advances in devices, the major limitation is in-stent stenosis (ISS) (reviewed by Bennett and O’Sullivan). Although ISS rates are 10–20% in selected patients, we now stent total occlusions, saphenous vein bypass grafts, both angioplasty and I...

When each of many saccades is made to overshoot its target, amplitude gradually decreases in a form of motor learning called saccade adaptation. Overshoot is induced experimentally by a secondary, backwards intrasaccadic target step (ISS) triggered by the primary saccade. Surprisingly, however, no study has compared the effectiveness of different sizes of ISS in driving adaptation by systematic...

BACKGROUND We examined the association between age, mechanism of injury, and Injury Severity Score (ISS) on mortality in major trauma. METHODS We used 9 years of population-based linked major trauma (ISS >15) registry data for Western Australia (N = 4,411). These were categorized using the Sampalis classification of injury severity: survivable (ISS 16-24), probably survivable (ISS 25-49), and...

We here study the adjuvant properties of immunostimulatory DNA sequences (ISS) and coinjected cytokine-coding cDNA in suppressive vaccination with DNA encoding an autoantigenic peptide, myelin basic protein peptide 68-85, against Lewis rat experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). EAE is an autoaggressive, T1-mediated disease of the CNS. ISS are unmethylated CpG motifs found in bacterial...