Distributed Control and Synchronization of Diffusively Coupled Systems by Sayed Yusef Shafi Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering – Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Professor Murat Arcak, Chair Diffusively coupled networks, in which different components of a network adjust their behavior according to the local sum of differences between their own and...

herāt experienced a considerable boom of culture and art during the reign of timurids, especially during the long reign of shāhrokh and hossein bāyqārā. herāt’s cultural life had been influenced by several factors and issues which are going to be categorized in four classes of: promotion of shari'a, persian language expansion, iranian-based thoughts, and mysticism to be analyzed beside the...

Population bottlenecks as a result of habitat fragmentation or other anthropogenic disturbances are increasingly common, but their consequences remain poorly studied. We studied the genetic population structure of a solitary nocturnal primate, Mirza coquereli, to investigate the demographic history of a local subpopulation in Kirindy Forest, western Madagascar, which showed recent dramatic fluc...

Poeciliid fishes such as green swordtails Xiphophorus helleri and guppies Poecilia reticulata aggregate in social groups called shoals. In addition to reducing predation risk and increasing foraging efficiency (e.g. Magurran & Pitcher, 1987; Ranta & Juvonen, 1993), fish shoals promote the transfer of social information within the group. For instance, information about foraging routes is transmi...

according adhar bigdili, muhammad ali was son of abdal biq naqqashbashi (painter laureate)and grandson of aliquli biq jabadar, court painter of shah safi and shah abbas ii safawi. adhar bigdili credited muhammad ali with naqqashbashi of shah tahmasp ii safawi and nadir shah afshar. having learnt the art of painting from his father, muhamma ali in turn trained ali ashraf, who worked under patron...

In this talk we present the latest results from our ongoing project on geometrothermodynamics (also known as information geometry of thermodynamics or Ruppeiner geometry) of dilaton BHs in 4D in both Einstein and string frames and a dyonic dilaton BH and at the end we report very briefly results from this approach to the 2D dilaton BHs. The thermodynamic geometry, also known as Ruppeiner geomet...