and Applied Analysis 3 defined as f(e(t), x(t), V(t)) = 0, where x(t), V(t) ∈ Rn are, respectively, the concatenation vector of the state variables in system (3). All agents update their consensus controls u i (t) at a series of event-times τ(s) (s = 0, 1, . . .) which are implicitly defined by f(e(τ(s)), x(τ(s)), V(τ(s))) = 0. Between control updates at two consecutive event-times, the eventdr...

The literatures on both authentic leadership and behavioral integrity have argued that leader integrity drives follower performance. Yet, despite overlap in conceptualization and mechanisms, no research has investigated how authentic leadership and behavioral integrity relate to one another in driving follower performance. In this study, we propose and test the notion that authentic leadership ...

This paper studies the event-triggered saturated adaptive iterative learning control (ETSAILC) problem for fractional-order multi-agent systems (FOMASs) subject to local Lipschitz nonlinearities and input saturation. First, a mechanism is proposed ensure that events occur along an iteration axis, all follower agents synchronously broadcast their states at each triggering step, receive restore i...

Patterns of event propagation in online social networks provide novel insights on the modeling and analysis of information dissemination over networks and physical systems. This paper studies the importance of follower links for event propagation on Twitter. Three recent event propagation traces are collected with the user languages being used to identify the Network of Networks (NoN) structure...

Researchers have reported on the importance of the rib cage in maintaining mechanical stability in the thoracic spine and on the validity of a compressive follower preload. However, dynamic mechanical testing using both the rib cage and follower load has never been studied. An in vitro biomechanical study of human cadaveric thoracic specimens with rib cage intact in lateral bending, flexion/ext...

In this paper we address the edge-agreement problem with preserved connectivity for networks of first and second-order systems under proximity constraints interconnected over a class directed graphs. We provide strict Lyapunov function that leads to establishing uniform asymptotic stability consensus manifold guaranteed preservation. Furthermore, robustness protocol, in sense input-to-state res...