We discuss recent results obtained for the Hamiltonian Mean Field model. The model describes a system of N fully-coupled particles in one dimension and shows a second-order phase transition from a clustered phase to a homogeneous one when the energy is increased. Strong chaos is found in correspondence to the critical point on top of a weak chaotic regime which characterizes the motion at low e...

licorice, the oldest chinese traditional medicine, is widely used in the treatment of human diseases. due to the deficiency of wild resource, selecting and breeding becomes a key issue to expanding the supply of licorice. spaceflight technology will become a new method for medicinal plants. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of spaceflight on the components and anti-inflammator...

This article focuses the application of Levy flight based PSO algorithm for the solution of micro grid power dispatch problems. The proposed algorithm is tested on micro grid dispatch problem consisting of wind, diesel and fuel cell plants. The effectiveness of the algorithm has been verified on a test system having distributed generation compared with the other existing techniques, considering...

A man-portable, autonomously controlled aerial surveillance platform has been developed. The ultimate goal is to provide a method for obtaining remote sensing data using an inexpensive, expendable device. The Autonomous Tactical Reconnaissance Platform (ATRP) consists of a standard parafoil that carries an instrumentation payload for autonomous flight and remote sensing capabilities for both mi...

Flight control in the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster is achieved by minute sets of muscles on either side of the thorax. Control responses of wings and muscles were elicited during fixed flight by moving a striped pattern in front of the eyes. For example, pattern motion from the lower right to the upper left signals to the test fly a rotatory course deviation to the right and simultaneously ...

This paper presents a novel two phase method that combines one class support vector machine classifiers classifiers using combination rules to quantitatively assess the degree of abnormality at various heights during individual aircraft descents and also over the whole descent. Whilst classifiers have been combined before in the literature with success, it is the first time they have been appli...