Let F(R) = {f ∈ L∞(R) ∩ L1(R) : f ≥ 0}. Suppose s ∈ F(R) and γ : R→ [0,∞). Suppose γ is zero at zero, positive away from zero and convex. For f ∈ F(Ω) let

Two main things ensure technology is integrated into a system: enablers, which help get in; and determinants, act as filters to that the right gets in. The study develops decision framework for ranking determinants of drone adoption from perspective enablers related innovative integration. This based on qualitative expert opinion quantitative MCDM methods. It provides valuable graph theory matr...

Monoclonal antibodies were used to study antigenic variation in three distinct epitopes on the matrix protein of influenza A viruses. We found that two of these epitopes underwent antigenic variation, but in a very limited number of virus strains. A third epitope appeared to be an invariant type-specific determinant for influenza A viruses. Competitive antibody binding assays and Western blot a...

This paper presents a unified approach to formulating stability conditions for slowly time-varying linear systems and switched linear systems. The concept of total variation of a matrix-valued function is introduced to characterize the variation of the system matrix. Using this concept, a result generalizing existing stability conditions for slowly time-varying linear systems is derived. As spe...

We propose a novel multiplexing scheme for teleoperation over constant bitrate (CBR) communication links. The proposed approach uniformly divides the channel into 1ms resource buckets and controls the size of the transmitted video packets as a function of the irregular haptic transmission events generated by a perceptual haptic data reduction approach. The performance of the proposed multiplexi...

The human face is an array of variable physical features that together make each of us unique and distinguishable. Striking familial facial similarities underscore a genetic component, but little is known of the genes that underlie facial shape differences. Numerous studies have estimated facial shape heritability using various methods. Here, we used advanced three-dimensional imaging technolog...

Reliable multicast protocols suuer from the problem of feedback implosion. To avoid this problem, the number of receivers sending feedback in case of loss must be small. However, losses experienced by diierent receivers are strongly correlated, since receivers share common resources in the multicast tree. One approach to feedback implosion avoidance relies on delaying feedback at the receivers....

Consumers are often uninformed, or unsure, about the ambient level of environmental risk. An optimal policy must jointly determine efficient levels of self-protection, information provision, and public risk mitigation efforts. Unfortunately, conventional welfare measures are not amenable to welfare analysis in the presence of imperfect information. We develop a theoretical welfare measure, call...