In Mwotlap (north Vanuatu), most verb phrases consist of two or more verb roots chained together 〈V1-V2...〉, acting like a single verb. Although a clear case of verb serialization, such phrases reveal a strong asymmetry between their free verb head (V1), and what appears to be little more than a post-head modifier (V2). Because the resulting “macro-verb” can only refer to a single action, its i...

We present an iterative learning controller that applies to nonholonomic mobile robots as well as to other systems which can be put in chained form. The learning algorithm exploites the fact that chained-form systems are linear under piecewiseconstant inputs. The proposed control scheme requires the execution of a small number of experiments in order to drive the system to the desired state in ...

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is considered to provide multimedia services to users through an IP-based control plane. The current IMS service invocation mechanism, however , requires the Serving-Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) invokes each Application Server (AS) sequentially to perform service subscription profile, which results in the heavy load of the S-CSCF and the long session setu...

A new 1D chained Ca(II) coordination polymer—namely, [CaL2(H2O)2]n (HL = 3,5-bis(4-pyridylmethoxy)benzoic acid)—was synthesized though the reaction of Ca(ClO4)2·4H2O, 3,5-bis(4-pyridylmethoxy)benzoic acid and NaOH in H2O/CH3CH2OH (v:v = 1:2) solution. Its structure was determined by elemental analysis, infrared spectrum, and single-crystal XRD. Structural analyses show that each Ca(II) ion is e...

Reddy argues that hearers understand the sentence in (1) by inferring that ideas are expressed in words, printed on pages within books, which are found in libraries. More recently, several studies have taken up Reddy’s observation (Nerlich and Clarke 2001, Geeraerts 2002, Ruiz de Mendoza and Diéz 2002, Barcelona 2003), showing its continuing relevance for cognitive linguistics. While these stud...

Many crystal structures of HIV-1 protease exist, but the number of clinically interesting drug resistant mutational patterns is far larger than the available crystal structures. Mutational protocols convert one protease sequence with available crystal structure into another that diverges by a small number of mutations. It is important that such mutational algorithms are followed by suitable mul...

This paper deals with chained form systems with strongly nonlinear disturbances and drift terms. The objective is to design robust nonlinear output feedback laws such that the closed-loop systems are globally exponentially stable. The systematic strategy combines the input-state-scaling technique with the so-called backstepping procedure. A dynamic output feedback controller for general case of...

The feedback stabilisation problem of non-holonomic chained systems and a novel feedback design scheme is proposed, which renders a smooth, time-varying, aperiodic, pure feedback control with exponential convergence rates. There are three main advantages with the proposed design. (i) In general, time-varying designs are mostly periodic and render asymptotic stability, whereas the proposed appro...

Access skew is the most important challenge for scalable parallel systems, especially when data are in range partitioned schema. To realize scalability, many dynamic accesses skew balancing methods with data reorganization and parallel index structures on shared-nothing parallel infrastructure have been proposed. Data migration with range-partitioned placement using a parallel Btree is one solu...