People have a stronger preference for options encountered earlier or later in a sequence than for options in the middle of the sequence. To account for these primacy and recency effects, Mantonakis et al. (2009) sketched a sequential updating mechanism, the pairwise-competition model. We propose a formal instantiation of the model and, using computer simulations, examine how the sizes of the pr...

An adaptive sliding mode controller (ASMC) based on characteristic model is designed to overcome the detrimental effect of large inertia ratio and large-range varying inertia in high accuracy servo systems. The servo system discrete characteristic model is established and adopted for the controller designed instead of using the traditional mechanism model. The recursive least square (RLS) algor...

Clinical inertia is defined as lack of treatment intensification in a patient not at evidence-based goals for care. Clinical inertia is a major factor that contributes to inadequate chronic disease care in patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemias, depression, coronary heart disease, and other conditions. Recent work suggests that clinical inertia related to the management of...

This work proposes a numerical model that incorporates the effect of lubricant inertia on the hydrodynamic pressure distribution, fluid film reaction forces, and the fluid velocity component profiles for finite-length open-ended squeeze film dampers (SFDs). Firstly, the thin film flow equations for the SFD in presence of fluid inertia effects are introduced. Furthermore, a small first-order per...

We introduce spin projection methods in the shell model Monte Carlo approach and apply them to calculate the spin distribution of level densities for iron-region nuclei using the complete (pf+g9/2)shell. We compare the calculated distributions with the spin-cutoff model and extract an energydependent moment of inertia. For even-even nuclei and at low excitation energies, we observe a significan...

We introduce spin projection methods in the shell model Monte Carlo approach and apply them to calculate the spin distribution of level densities for iron-region nuclei using the complete (pf + g9/2) shell. We compare the calculated distributions with the spin-cutoff model and extract an energy-dependent moment of inertia. For even-even nuclei and at low excitation energies, we observe a signif...

The generalised deformed suq (2) model is applied to 79 superdeformed bands in the region A ∼ 190. The transition energies and the moments of inertia are calculated within the model, Its validity is investigated by comparing it with the experimental data. Both the standard suq (2) and the generalized one fail to account for the uprising and the downturn of the dynamic moment of inertia. Both mo...

This article presents an improvement method of an identified inertia matrix with the neural network model of a robot. A problem of a neural network model is its inability to assure the positive definiteness of an identified inertia matrix. Therefore the method of matrix regularization based on Cholesky decomposition is proposed. Simulation results show significant improvement of the accuracy of...

We discuss a new model for strategic voting in plurality elections under uncertainty. In particular, we introduce the concept of inertia to capture players’ uncertainty about poll accuracy. We use a sequence of pre-election polls as a source of partial information. Under some behavioural assumptions, we show how this sequence can help agents to coordinate on an equilibrium outcome. We study the...