One of the core propositions in most clinical and descriptive models of personality disorders (PDs) is that these conditions are stable over time. However, the available empirical literature suggests that PDs are far less stable than these models imply. The present study examines the 10-year stability of PDs in a sample of depressed outpatients who were assessed for the full range of Axis II co...

Early cross-sectional studies suggested that cognitive functions begin to decline in young adulthood, whereas the first longitudinal studies suggested that they are mainly stable in adulthood. A number of more contemporary longitudinal studies support the stability hypothesis. However, drop out effects have the consequence that most longitudinal studies end up with relatively few subjects. In t...

Relationships between impedance parameters and scaling factors are derived using absolute stability and passivity. For this, the teleoperation system is represented as a two-port model with a hybrid matrix. Design procedure of the impedance parameters for the absolute stability of the teleoperator under the time delay is proposed. The validity of the proposed control scheme is demonstrated by e...

In this paper, we consider Lur’e type differential-algebraic systems (LDS) and introduce the concept of strongly absolute stability. Such a notion is a generalization of absolute stability for Lur’e type standard state-space systems (LSS). By a Lur’e type Lyapunov function, we derive an LMI based stability criterion for LDS to be strongly absolutely stable. Using extended strictly positive real...

This paper is concerned with the robust absolute stability analysis problem for a class of uncertain time-delay systems with nonlinearities satisfying a given sector condition. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory and the linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, a delay-dependent sufficient condition for the robust absolute stability is derived and is expressed as the feasibility problem of a...

We consider the stability of a compressible shear flow separating two streams of different speeds and temperatures. The velocity and temperature profiles in this mixing layer are hyperbolic tangents. The normal mode analysis of the flow stability reduces to an eigenvalue problem for the pressure perturbation. We briefly describe the numerical method that we used to solve this problem. Then, we ...