TO SYMMETRIC VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS Giuseppe Gaeta Department of Mathematical Sciences Loughborough University of Technology Loughborough LE11 3TU (England) [email protected] Summary By combining the Michel's geometric theory of symmetry breaking and classical result from variational analysis, we obtain a lower bound on critical points with given symmetry H G of a potential symmetric under G. The...

This paper describes research carried out at Loughborough University in the UK into the areas of ‘design for all’ and accessible transport. The research addresses two common needs for designers and ergonomists working towards developing more inclusive products and environments, namely data on users that is accessible, valid, and applicable and a means of utilising the data to assess the accessi...

This research applies a recently developed model of accident causation, developed to investigate industrial accidents, to a specially gathered sample of 997 crashes investigated in-depth in 6 countries. Based on the work of Hollnagel the model considers a collision to be a consequence of a breakdown in the interaction between road users, vehicles and the organisation of the traffic environment....

Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to an emerging debate centred on the ways in which knowledge management (KM) might be effectively researched and, in turn, how KM practice might be improved. Design/methodology/approach – Burrell and Morgan’s (1979) paradigms are used to set the scene and to highlight the changing focus in three closely related areas – research per se, the KM movement and...

A list of requirements for a genetic programming representation is put forward and a representation separating the genotype and phenotype with a linear genome is presented. The target language for the genetic program is Perl. The mapping process, between the genotype and phenotype, converts blocks of four genes into program statements. This process is context-free and therefore provides inherit...

Despite the pitfalls identified in previous critiques of the evidence-based practice (EBP) movement in education, health, medicine and social care, recent years have witnessed its spread to the realm of policing. This paper considers the rise of evidence-based policy and practice as a dominant discourse in policing in the UK, and the implications this has for social scientists conducting resear...

A main concern with artificial turfs is the increased incidences of skin abrasions compared to playing on natural grass. The proliferation of these surfaces draws attention to the skinfriendliness and related test methods of the products. This study focuses on the yarn component and explores the significance of tribopairs in identifying the skin-friendly property of hydrophilically-modified pol...

British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, NIHR Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activi...

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This paper is concerned with Sobolev weak solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. This equation is derived from the dynamic programming principle in the study of the stochastic optimal control problem. Adopting Doob-Meyer decomposition theorem as one of main tool, we prove that the optimal value function is the unique Sobolev weak solution of the corresponding HJB equation. For the ...