The average seismic velocity and density jumps across the 410- and 660-kilometer discontinuities in the upper mantle were determined by modeling the observed range dependence in long-period seismic wave arrivals that reflect off of these interfaces. The preliminary reference Earth model (PREM) is within the computed 95 percent confidence ellipse for the 410-km discontinuity but outside the allo...

 Abstract-In this paper we develop an algorithm to generate gait sequences to negotiate a discontinuous terrain for a hybrid 4-wheeled legged robot. The gait sequence comprises two main steps – normal force redistribution and hybrid position-force control. The robot climbs the discontinuity one leg at a time. This requires that the entire load of the robot is taken up by the other three legs s...

in this paper we propose and simulate a new heterostructure mesfet, called δ-doped ldd hmesfet. to improve carrier velocity in vicinity of the source in channel of gaas mesfet, one can replace source with alxga 1-x as. by increasing al content, discontinuity of hetero-interface could be increased. therefore, the velocity increases in the low field. however, increasing al mole fraction in excess...

The derivative discontinuity of the exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory is cast as the difference of two types of electron affinities. We approximately evaluate this difference via ordinary Kohn-Sham calculations, obtaining estimates of the discontinuity for light atoms and for polyacetylene oligomers. The discontinuity is found to be quite large (typically several eV),...

Acoustic reflex is a sensitive indicator of middle ear lesions when the tympanic membrane is intact and tympanometry is normal. Acoustic reflex is not usually observed in conductive hearing loss caused by disruption of the ossicular chain including ossicular discontinuity and fixation. Ossicular disruption can show at least partially intact acoustic reflex under a certain condition. Moreover, o...

[1] The phase boundary between San Carlos olivine and its high pressure phase, wadsleyite, have been studied comparatively in dry and water saturated condition. By comparing saturated and dry samples from the same experimental run, we determine that both boundaries of the two-phase coexisting loop shift towards lower pressure or lower iron content, and the pressure width of the loop decreases t...

Several discrete-time dynamic models are ultimately expressed in the form of iterated piecewise linear functions, in oneor twodimensional spaces. In this paper we study a one-dimensional map made up of three linear pieces which are separated by two discontinuity points, motivated by a dynamic model arising in social sciences. Starting from the bifurcation structure associated with one-dimension...

In a previous paper we showed that the absence of the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity as M 2 → 0 for massive spin-2 with a Λ term is an artifact of the tree approximation, and that the discontinuity reappears at one loop, as a result of going from five degrees of freedom to two. In this paper we show that a similar classical continuity but quantum discontinuity arises in the " partially ...

The evolution of discontinuity and formation of triple-shock pattern in solutions to a two-dimensional hyperbolic system of conservation laws are studied. When the initial discontinuity is a convex curve, it is discovered that the structure of the global solution changes dramatically around a critical time: After the critical time, a triple-shock pattern forms, while, before the critical time, ...

In this paper, we discuss the connection between two genuinely quantum phenomena—the discontinuity of quantum maximum entropy inference and quantum phase transitions at zero temperature. It is shown that the discontinuity of the maximum entropy inference of local observable measurements signals the non-local type of transitions, where local density matrices of the ground state change smoothly a...