An efficient formulation for the robust shape optimization of aerodynamic objects is introduced in this paper. The formulation has three essential features. First, an Euler solver based on a second-order Godunov scheme is used for the flow calculations. Second, a genetic algorithm with binary number encoding is implemented for the optimization procedure. The third ingredient of the procedure is...

The Europe Media Monitor (EMM) family of applications is a set of multilingual tools that gather, cluster and classify news in currently fifty languages and that extract named entities and quotations (reported speech) from twenty languages. In this paper, we describe the recent effort of adding the African Bantu language Swahili to EMM. EMM is designed in an entirely modular way, allowing plugg...

staphylococcus aureus causes a wide variety of infections worldwide. methicillin-resistant s. aureus is one of most common causes of nosocomial and community acquired infections. the fluoroquinolones are an important class of antibiotics that used to treat infections caused by s. aureus. today, a significant increase in the rate of ciprofloxacin resistance in methicillin-resistant s. aureus str...

This paper describes the LMI synthesis of feedback controllers which minimise closed loop transient perturbation growth with limited control effort. Controllers are synthesized for the linearised Lorenz equations, and their performance is compared to that of LQR controllers. At low control effort the controllers behave similarly, but the LMI based controllers are able to produce an almost monot...

Uncertainty about the coordination of common efforts (e.g. team projects, alliances) often coexists with uncertainty about other variables (e.g. weather, market fluctuations, political instability). In certain coordination games in which equilibria can potentially arise at any common effort level, ex ante equilibrium selection (particularly of high-effort, high-payoff equilibria) has been a per...

•Male olive baboons invest in both mating effort and parenting effort•Investment are negatively correlated•Parenting has negative, but uncertain, effects on paternity success•Males seem to trade off Reproductive strategies defined by expenditures of time energy devoted effort, which increases opportunities, enhances the survival offspring. We examine tradeoffs between male baboons, Papio anubis...

conclusions postural stress among female machinists can increase the level of si to fairly risky and dangerous. also, changes in rating hand/wrist qec scores with hand/wrist si score were proportional in the studied samples. the si can increase under the influence of noise above 85 db, although it is not statistically significant. results there was no significant difference between work experie...