MOTIVATION Biological networks are robust to a wide variety of internal and external perturbations, yet fragile or sensitive to a small minority of perturbations. Due to this rare sensitivity of networks to certain perturbations, it is unclear how precisely biochemical parameters must be experimentally measured in order to accurately predict network function. RESULTS Here, we examined a model...

The year 2001 began with the inauguration of a U.S. President deliberately aiming to shift the use of the military away from the numerous humanitarian and peacekeeping interventions of the 1990s toward responding to and defeating conventional threats from nation-states. The mood was optimistic, with the new U.S. national Security Strategy, recently put in place by the departing Clinton administ...

‡ Barry Saver is the lead/corresponding author and wrote the initial draft. Stephen Martin is listed second as he contributed inspiration and major ideas for the manuscript. Ronald Adler is listed third as he provided substantially greater contributions to the ideas and editing of the manuscript than the remaining authors. The other authors are listed alphabetically as they all made roughly com...

historically, central asia and the caucasus has been the source of important developments in the regional and global level. the whole geopolitical theories in the 20th and 21st century paid special attention to this area. geopolitical status of the region has posed challenges for residents and even neighbors of the region. these challenges can be described as the divergence factors. therefore, ...

Inter-and intra-agency coordination-The accountability, will and capacity of donors 25 6.4 A new sector financing strategy in education-transitional trust funds .. 1.1 Structure of the Paper The DAC characterises fragile states as countries with poor governance as identified by a lack of political commitment and/or weak capacity to develop and implement pro-poor policies; fragile states also of...

This paper considers the problems of robust non-fragile control for uncertain discrete-delay large-scale systems under state feedback gain variations. Two classes of controller gain variations are considered. Based on the Lyapunov method, the state feedback control design for robust stability is given in terms of solutions to a linear matrix inequality (LMI). The solutions of the LMI can be eas...