v Abstract. The chemical stability tests currently used for propellants suffer from some drawback. In this paper an attempt has been made to recast the existing system of stability testing in order to improve the reliability factor. A new stability concept has also been brought out based on the action of the stabilizer and its derivatives with the decomposed products of the nitric esters, the c...

Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare An industry is modeled in which entrepreneurs, who are heterogeneous in ability, may produce formally or informally. It is shown how the formal-informal mix depends on the distribution of ability, product demand and various parameter values. The industry equilibrium is compared to one in which informality is prohibited. With relatively high product dem...

We show how to construct quantum stabilizer and subsystem codes from algebro-geometric toric codes extending the known construction of subsystem codes from cyclic codes and extending the construction of stabilizer codes from toric codes in an earlier work by one of the authors. Since algebrogeometric toric codes are higher dimensional extensions of cyclic codes, we obtain this way a new and ric...

This paper is motivated by the computer-generated nonadditive code described in Rains et al [RHSN97]. We describe a theory of non-stabilizer codes of which the nonadditive code of Rains et al is an example. Furthermore, we give a general strategy of constructing good nonstabilizer codes from good stabilizer codes and give some explicit constructions and asymptotically good nonstabilizer codes. ...

The theory of quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs, for short) has been exhaustively studied in the literature; see [1–8]. The most widely studied class of quantum codes are binary quantum stabilizer codes. A thorough discussion on the principles of quantum coding theory was given in [3] and [4] for binary quantum stabilizer codes. An appealing aspect of binary quantum codes is that there exis...

This paper presents a novel indirect adaptive Power System Stabilizer (PSS) via a developed synergetic control methodology and fuzzy systems. Fuzzy system is utilized in an adaptive scheme to estimate the system using a nonlinear model. The synergetic control guarantees robustness of the controller and makes the controller easy to implement because of using a chatter free continuous control law...