The paper addresses dynamic and control issues related to a dynamical model called the classical shimmying wheel. The classical shimmying wheel models the rolling dynamics of many physical rolling systems such as aircraft nose wheels, motorcycles, automotive systems and tractor{ trailer systems. Such system can exhibit undesirable unstable rolling motion, i.e. shimmying, which can often lead to...

To study how macroscopic friction phenomena originate from microscopic junction laws, we introduce a general statistical framework describing the collective behavior of a large number of individual microjunctions forming a macroscopic frictional interface. Each microjunction can switch in time between two states: a pinned state characterized by a displacement-dependent force and a slipping stat...

Using the lookdown construction of Donnelly and Kurtz we prove that, at any fixed positive time, the Λ-Fleming-Viot process with underlying Brownian motion has a compact support provided that the corresponding Λ-coalescent comes down from infinity not too slowly. We also find both upper bound and lower bound on the Hausdorff dimension for the support.

Compact, time-harmonic, acoustic sources produce waves that decay too slowly to be square-integrable on a line away from the sources. We introduce an inner product, arising directly from Green’s second theorem, to form a Hilbert space of these waves and present examples of its computation. c © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

One of the insights of dynamic semantics in its various guises (Kamp 1981, Heim 1982, Groenendijk & Stokhof 1991, Kamp & Reyle 1993 among many others) is that interpretation is sensitive to left-to-right order. Is order sensitivity, particularly the default left-to-right order of evaluation, a property of particular meanings of certain lexical items (e.g., dynamically interpreted conjunction) o...

New geodetic measurements show that the New Madrid is currently deforming too slowly, if at all, to account for large earthquakes in the region over the past 5000 years. This result, together with increasing evidence for temporal clustering and spatial migration of earthquake sequences in continental interiors, indicates that either tectonic loading rates or fault properties vary over a few tho...