Reading ‘Impulses’

Amplitude discriminator for biological impulses.

A simple amplitude discriminator with two ways of triggering DC-level monitoring is described. This system is based on easily available inexpensive integrated circuits.

Mindful Attention Prevents Mindless Impulses

Three studies illustrate that mindful attention prevents impulses toward attractive food. Participants received a brief mindfulness procedure in which they observed their reactions to external stimuli as transient mental events rather than subjectively real experiences. Participants then applied this procedure to viewing pictures of highly attractive and neutral food items. Finally, reactions t...

Simulating Inextensible Cloth Using Impulses

Computer simulation of cloth is often plagued by springs being over-stretched. The evaluation of impulses to prevent over-stretching is explained step-by-step. Our impulse approach controls the length of springs by a nonlinear system and then a novel linearization of it into a symmetric positive definite system. The cloth/solid collision handling is integrated into the linearized system seamles...

Morbid Impulses from the Medico-Legal Standpoint

Oscillation of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equation with Impulses

Theory of impulsive partial differential equations can be applied to many fields, such as to biology, population growth, engineering, generic repression, control theory and climate model. In the last few years, the fundamental theory of partial differential equations with impulses has undergone intensive development. The qualitative theory of this class of equations, however, is still in an ini...