Federalism, or The Absence of a National Ministry Few features are more difficult to explain to the foreign observer than the absence of an American ministry of education. Not only do virtually all other countries have one, but in the absence of a federal ministry it is difficult, for example, to account for why degrees are considered essentially the same in all 50 states, or why the federal go...

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We prove the existence of cocoon bifurcations for the Michelson system ẋ = y, ẏ = z, ż = c − y − 1 2 x, ∗Research supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No.17340045), Ministry of Education, Science, Technology, Culture and Sports, Japan. †Research supported by an annual national scholarship for young scientists from the Foundation for Polish Science. ‡Research supported in p...

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Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Regulation Biology of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China (S.G.); State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China (S.G., J.F., F.X., W.W., X.S.,...

Adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control for electromechanical actuator Hao Li a b , Lihua Dou a b & Zhong Su c a School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China b Key Laboratory of Complex System Intelligent Control and Decision (Beijing Institute of Technology), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100081, China c Key Laboratory of Modern Measurement and ...

The following information is missing from the Funding section: e:Kid from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The correct funding information is as follows: The work was supported by the grants Transregio 52 from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and e:Kid from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to B.S. The funders had no role in study design, data colle...

in a real separable Hilbert space H driven by an infinite dimensional cylindrical symmetric Lévy process Z = (Zt). The process Z may take values in a Hilbert space 1 Supported by the M.I.U.R. research projects Prin 2004 and 2006 “Kolmogorov equations” and by the Polish Ministry of Science and Education project 1PO 3A 034 29 “Stochastic evolution equations with Lévy noise”. 2 Supported by the Po...