The management of the prison is vested in a board of three members, appointed for six years by the governor, serving without pay. Only two of the members can be of the same political party. The governor is ex officio member of the board. The board meets once a month, and audits all bills before they are paid. They make rules for the management of the prison. No member of the board can become an...

Psychological analysis of language has repeatedly shown that an individual’s rate of mentioning 1st person singular pronouns predicts a wealth of important demographic and psychological factors. However, these analyses are performed out of context — syntactic and semantic — which may change the magnitude or even direction of such relationships. In this paper, we put “pronouns in their context”,...

This paper demonstrates how to construct a reference governor for which the size of its implemented data can be adjusted with an integer parameter ν , ensuring fulfillment of a pointwise-in-time constraint. Using a technique called “blocking,” a management method is established that changes the external reference every νTs period, where Ts denotes a sampling period of a constrained system. Cons...

This paper considers the decentralized turbine-governor control design for the damping of low-frequency, inter-area oscillations in electric power systems. A time-varying model that explains oscillations caused by parametric resonance is employed to design a controller. A robust turbine-governor controller design is presented on the basis of the model. Furthermore, a basic idea for incorporatin...

The paper presents the major principles and concepts of a dependency grammar theory of discontinuities for English and German (and presumably for many other languages as well). Discontinuities are identified in terms of traditional projectivity violations. These violations are then reanalyzed according to the Rising Principle. This principle sees the relevant constituent attaching to a word tha...

The paper discusses several Lyapunov-based controller and observer techniques that enhance the conventional Speed-Gradient control design approach. Our developments cover the treatment of the derivative action, time-delays, backstepping via dynamic surface control, and feedforward governor to satisfy pointwise-in-time constraints. Some of these enhancements have been already proposed in the pri...

Ensuring that autonomous systems work ethically is both complex and difficult. However, the idea of having an additional ‘governor’ that assesses options the system has, and prunes them to select the most ethical choices is well understood. Recent work has produced such a governor consisting of a ‘consequence engine’ that assesses the likely future outcomes of actions then applies a Safety/Ethi...

Peripheral nerve injury not only affects the site of the injury, but can also induce neuronal apoptosis at the spinal cord. However, many acupuncture clinicians still focus only on the injury site, selecting acupoints entirely along the injured nerve trunk and neglecting other regions; this may delay onset of treatment efficacy and rehabilitation. Therefore, in the present study, we compared th...