•Discrete hierarchies are ubiquitous in intelligent systems. • The Poisson-Dirichlet process (PDP ) [1] allow statistical inference and learning on discrete hierarchies, e.g., hierarchy of Dirichlet distributions. • Applications of the PDP/HPDP include but not limited to: – Topic modeling: Finding meaningful topics discussed in large set of documents. Beneficial to automatic document analysis a...

The paper deals with development of a methodology for mechatronic system design using state-of-the-art model-based engineering methods. A simple flexible robotic arm is considered as benchmark problem the evaluation various techniques used in phases modelling, analysis, control design, validation, and implementation. nature mechanical structure introduces inherently oscillatory dynamics target ...

Certain species of Hermetia illucens, also known as the Black Soldier Fly(BSF), were found in a compost plant in Roorkee located in Northern India. Its larvae arevoracious eaters of organic waste, hence can play an ecologically-important role in solidwaste management. Morphological analysis of various stages of BSF life cycle by SEMshowed that its body along with its wings is densely covered wi...

We show that for certain configurations of two chemostats fed in parallel, the presence of two different species in each tank can improve the yield of the whole process, compared to the same configuration having the same species in each volume. This leads to a (so-called) “transgressive over-yielding” due to spatialization. Key-words. Chemostat, steady-state, optimization, over-yielding.

Recent literature on robust mechanism design focuses on detail-free mechanisms to address issues on the restrictive common knowledge assumption. However, most of the existing studies focus on the implementability of an allocation mechanism in a more robust setting, whereas very little is known regarding how these formulations differ from the revenue perspective in the context of optimal mechani...

The sounds of human speech make human language a rapid medium of communication through a process o f speech “encoding. I t The presence of sounds like the vowels [a] , [ i ] , and [u] makes this process possible. The supralaryngeal vocal tracts o f newborn Homo sapiens and chimpanzee are similar and resemble the reconstructed vocal tract o f the fossil La Chapellmux-Saints Neanderthal man. Voca...

satellite thermal control ensures safe operating temperature ranges for satellite components throughout the mission life. effects of altitude, spin, and position of satellite radiator(s) on the thermal control of a small low earth orbit (leo) satellite have been studied. results show that change in satellite altitude, in the range considered here, does not produce critical thermal conditions. h...