Monsters are commonly stereotyped as horrible and grotesque creatures. But in Frankenstein The Island of Doctor Moreau, Shelly Wells both delineate some complicated but meaningful monster characters. These monsters’ features natures represent their creator’s intention purpose. In texts, monsters ugly benevolent, while creators eccentric monstrous. relationship between men allows us to view the ...

data envelope analysis (dea) is an approach to estimate the relative efficiency of decision making units (dmus). several studies were conducted in order to prioritize efficient units and some useful models such as cross-efficiency matrix (cem) were presented.  besides, a number of dea models with interval data have been developed and ranking dmus with such data was solved. however, presenting a...

The quasi-static problem of elastoplasticity with isotropic hardening is considered, with particular emphasis on its numerical solution by means of a Newton-like method. The smoothness properties necessary for such method can be ensured by Moreau-Yosida’s theorem. After time discretization, the classical formulation of the elastoplastic problem is transformed to a minimization problem. The conv...

by Philippe Rodon, Cyrille Hulin, Brigitte Pegourie, Mourad Tiab, Bruno Anglaret, Lotfi Benboubker, Henry Jardel, Olivier Decaux, Brigitte Kolb, Murielle Roussel, Laurent Garderet, Xavier Leleu, Olivier Fitoussi, Carine Chaleteix, Philippe Casassus, Pascal Lenain, Bruno Royer, Anne Banos, Riad Benramdane, Pascale Cony-Makhoul, Mamoun Dib, Jean Fontan, Anne-Marie Stoppa, Catherine Traulle', Jean...

Title: RESULTS OF ULTRASOUND-ASSISTED BRACE CASTING FOR ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS Authors: Edmond Lou ([email protected]) Doug Hill ([email protected]) Andreas Donauer ([email protected]) Melissa Tilburn ([email protected]) Douglas Hedden ([email protected]) Marc Moreau ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 14 Mar 2017 Author’s response to reviews: The following is the response to t...

This article is dedicated to Jean Jacques Moreau for his 80th birthday. He is a master of convex analysis. When dealing with differential inclusions of the form Du (x) ∈ E, a.e. in Ω together with some boundary data u = φ on ∂Ω, one is lead to consider several types of convex hulls of sets. It is the aim of the present article to discuss these matters.

We show that a locally Lipschitz homeomorphism function is semismooth at a given point if and only if its inverse function is semismooth at its image point. We present a sufficient condition for the semismoothness of solutions to generalized equations over cone reducible (nonpolyhedral) convex sets. We prove that the semismoothness of solutions to the Moreau-Yosida regularization of a lower sem...

présenté le 28 juin 2007, après avis des rapporteurs Jean-Claude BAJARD, Professeur, Université de Montpellier 2 Miloš ERCEGOVAC, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Paul ZIMMERMANN, Directeur de Recherche, INRIA devant le jury composé de Jean-Claude BAJARD, Professeur, Université de Montpellier 2 Bernard GOOSSENS, Professeur, Université de Perpignan Peter MARKSTEIN, Senior Enginee...

In this paper we discuss second-order properties of the Moreau-Yosida regularization F of a piecewise twice continuously differentiable convex function f . We introduce a new constraint qualification in order to prove that the gradient of F is piecewise continuously differentiable. In addition, we discuss conditions, depending on the Hessians of the pieces, that guarantee positive definiteness ...