The question of the local stability of the ~replica-symmetric! amorphous solid state is addressed for a class of systems undergoing a continuous liquid to amorphous-solid phase transition driven by the effect of random constraints. The Hessian matrix, associated with infinitesimal fluctuations around the stationary point corresponding to the amorphous solid state, is obtained. The eigenvalues o...

This paper deals with the problems of stochastic stability and sliding mode control for a class of continuous-time Markovian jump systems with mode-dependent time-varying delays and partly unknown transition probabilities. The design method is general enough to cover a wide spectrum of systems from those with completely known transition probability rates to those with completely unknown transit...

PURPOSE Topiramate (TPM) is known to cause language impairment in healthy volunteers and patients with epilepsy. We assessed the effects of TPM on functional language networks in both patients with focal epilepsies and healthy controls using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). METHODS We obtained fMRI data in 24 controls and 35 patients with frontal lobe epilepsy using a simple verb...

Branching processes are a class of continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs) with ubiquitous applications. A general difficulty in statistical inference under partially observed CTMC models arises in computing transition probabilities when the discrete state space is large or uncountable. Classical methods such as matrix exponentiation are infeasible for large or countably infinite state spaces, an...

Branching processes are a class of continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs) with ubiquitous applications. A general difficulty in statistical inference under partially observed CTMC models arises in computing transition probabilities when the discrete state space is large or uncountable. Classical methods such as matrix exponentiation are infeasible for large or countably infinite state spaces, an...

The use of budget in road management must be effective and efficient by providing the optimal pavement performance values. problem cost optimization handling programs West Bangka Regency is lack information regarding with changes conditions that will occur future due to pattern carried out, so required a method capable predict conditions. purpose this study determine based on value from predict...

This work deals with the exponential stabilization problem of discrete-time Markovian jump systems via a hybrid control strategy, in which the transition probability matrix and static output-feedback controller are designed simultaneously. A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an exponential stabilizing transition probability matrix is derived by means of a mode-dependent pa...

Estimation procedures for nonstationary Markov chains appear to be relatively sparse. This work introduces empirical  Bayes estimators  for the transition probability  matrix of a finite nonstationary  Markov chain. The data are assumed to be of  a panel study type in which each data set consists of a sequence of observations on N>=2 independent and identically dis...