We explain the physical effects involved in optical coupling in periodic structures which allow for photonic band gaps. We use a simple model to do this, since this allows us to establish some general principles for the operation of such devices. Further, we investigate the choice of parameters, with respect to the band gap, which will allow the device to operate suitably, and we contrast syste...

PARALLEL INVERTED INDEX FOR LARGE-SCALE, DYNAMIC DIGITAL LIBRARIES

This paper addresses the problem of identifying collection dependent stop-words in order to reduce the size of inverted files. We present four methods to automatically recognise stop-words, analyse the tradeoff between efficiency and effectiveness, and compare them with a previous pruning approach. The experiments allow us to conclude that in some situations stop-words pruning is competitive wi...

Introduction With the increasing potential for targeted therapies in autoinflammatory diseases, there is the need for validated and standardized assessment tools which can be used to evaluate the level of disease activity and response to therapy.An international collaboration, initiated by Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP) in association with the Paediatric Rheumatology International...

This paper proposes a model called the gravitycompensated inverted pendulum mode (G CIPM) to generate a biped locomotion pattern that is similar to the one generated by the linear inverted pendulum mode, but accommodates the free leg dynamics based upon its predetermined trajectory. When the biped locomotion based upon the linear inverted pendulum mode is applied to real biped robots, the stabi...

The BSS, which has been used in all City's TREC experiments, is a set-oriented ranked output system designed primarily for probabilistic{type retrieval of textual material using inverted indexes. There is a family of built-in weighting functions as described in [1, Section 3]. In addition to weighting and ranking facilities it has the usual boolean and quasi-boolean (positional) operations. The...

Index preparation is a tedious and time-consuming task. This paper indicates how the indexing process can be automated in a way that is largely independent of a specific typesetting system and independent of the format being used. Fundamental issues related to this process are identified and analyzed. Specifically, we develop a framework for placing index commands in the document. In addition, ...

The main objective of the present study was the examination and the quantification of the uncertainties in the precipitation time series over the Greek area, for a 42-year time period. The uncertainty index applied to the rainfall data is a combination (total) of the departures of the rainfall season length, of the median data of the accumulated percentages and of the total amounts of rainfall....

We revisit a previous high-low gain control idea for a 4 DOF spherical inverted pendulum using a different approach, inspired by a nested saturation tool proposed by Marconi and Isidori, that provides explicit tuning rules to deal with certain bounded external disturbances. The update controller is a robust, decentralized and “global” controller.

Balance control of a simulated inverted pendulum attached to a circular base is presented. This type of platform is analogous to a biped robot with circular soled feet in single support phase. Circular feet have been shown to be more energy efficient than flat feet during walking, and in this paper we present another advantage, where circular feet do not suffer from ground separation when apply...