Flexible composition is an extension of TAG that has been used in a variety of TAG-analyses. In this paper, we present a dedicated study of the formal and linguistic properties of TAGs with flexible composition (TAG-FC). We start by presenting a survey of existing applications of flexible composition. In the main part of the paper, we discuss a formal definition of TAGFCs and give a proof of eq...

Membrane reflectarray antennas with flexible support structures realize low weight and stowage volume. However, deformation of the membrane generally degrades antenna gain. We propose electrical misalignment compensation for 5.8-GHz-band by varactor diodes. Active reflection elements are composed a square patch diodes parameters characterized in waveguide. The results simulated measured charact...

The biconcave disk shape and deformability of mammalian RBCs rely on the membrane skeleton, a viscoelastic network of short, membrane-associated actin filaments (F-actin) cross-linked by long, flexible spectrin tetramers. Nonmuscle myosin II (NMII) motors exert force on diverse F-actin networks to control cell shapes, but a function for NMII contractility in the 2D spectrin-F-actin network of R...

Typical content-based methods for music classification and retrieval mainly deal with global statistics or features of pre-divided songs. However, focusing on local, heterogeneous fragments and features is mandatory for flexible analysis. We propose a musical word scheme based on clustering as the base for local pattern extraction, robust classification and flexible music retrieval.