Given an admissible map γ f for a homogeneous network N , it is known that the Jacobian D ( x ) around fully synchronous point = 0 … again . Motivated by this, we study spectra of linear maps networks. In particular, define so-called multipliers. These are (relatively small) matrices depend linearly on coefficients response function, and whose eigenvalues together make up spectrum corresponding...

Touch-based interaction with computing devices is becoming more and more common. In order to design for this setting, it is critical to understand the basic human factors of touch interactions such as tapping and dragging; however, there is relatively little empirical research in this area, particularly for touch-based dragging. To provide foundational knowledge in this area, and to help design...

Abstract In this article we prove that all squares with sides of lengths $$\frac{1}{m+1}, \frac{1}{m+2}, \dots $$ 1 m + , 2 ⋯ can be packed in a rectangle one side fixed and rel...

abstract background: cultural values are invisible and relatively constant in societies. the purpose of the present study is to find diversities in cultural values of iranian and malaysian nursing students. materials and methods: convenience sampling method was used for this comparative-descriptive study to gather the data from full-time undergraduate degree nursing students in iran and malaysi...

In small-scale mechanical tests, such as micropillar compression plastic deformation is often localized in narrow slip traces. These traces result from a few dislocation sources with relatively low nucleation stresses that are present the material. order to accurately simulate experiments, stochastics of underlying network must be taken into account, which usually done by performing discrete dy...

Some new techniques for reduced order (macro) modeling of nonlinear systems with time periodic coefficients are discussed in this paper. The dynamical evolution equations are transformed using the Lyapunov-Floquet (L-F) transformation such that the linear parts of the new set of equations become time-invariant. The techniques presented here reduce the order of this transformed system and all or...

Let $A_1$, $A_2$ be unital Banach algebras and $X$ be an $A_1$-$A_2$- module. Applying the concept of module maps, (inner) modulegeneralized derivations and  generalized first cohomology groups, wepresent several results concerning the relations between modulegeneralized derivations from $A_i$ into the dual space $A^*_i$ (for$i=1,2$) and such derivations  from  the triangular Banach algebraof t...

This paper describes a generic approach to generating intelligence systems for robots that perform an operation we call “hunt and gather”. While, there have been various solutions proposed for complete systems that perform hunt and gather tasks within specified domains, the focus of the research presented here is to develop a minimalist system that can be used across a variety of problems witho...