An inchworm robotic insect is presented that can displace on a smooth horizontal surface. It consists of a piezoelectric unimorph and two custom-designed limbs. A two-module lumped-parameter model is formulated to assist in the desigdanalysis process. The geometry of deformation is analyzed first by superimposing the unirnorph ’s elastic deformation to a rigid-body rotation around the limb/grou...

A bstra ct . When one compares t he time evolution of two spin configura tions subjected to the same t hermal noise, domains appea r of ident ical and opposite spins . We st udy these domains and their growt h for three magnetic systems in two dime nsions: ferromagnet, spin glass, and non-symmetric spin glass. For Ierromagnet s, t hese distan ce associated domains are very similar to the magnet...

Any industry has its own supply chain where it is not necessary to have all stages in the supply chain and the optimal o rdering policies of those indiv idual stages may be different. This paper p resents an extension of two–level supply chain inventory model d iscussed in related works. The main consideration of this paper is to determine the optimal ordering policy according to inventory and ...

We describe a family segregating an autosomal dominant mutation producing a syndrome comprising microcephaly with normal intelligence and short palpebral fissures together with variable signs including thumb hypoplasia, shortness of the middle phalanges of the second and fifth fingers, small feet, a gap between the first and second toes, and mild syndactyly of the toes or fingers. A characteris...

BOSTON (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy campaigned in the precincts of his political youth * yesterday, telling Massachu­ setts voters “ 1 have come home to ask for your help” to rekindle his flickering challenge to Pres­ ident Carter. R epublican G eorge Bush sought a comeback against Ronald Reagan and said he was making election-eve headway. For Bush as for Kennedy, the Massachusetts presidential ...

A precise def in i t ion is provided for general configurat ion tasks. Two important assumptions are ident i f ied: (i) functional architecture and (ii) key component per funct ion. A domainindependent model is presented based on these assumptions. These assumptions are shown to be both useful and tenable in real domains. They are useful because they l imit the complexity of the general conf ig...

entity anaphora abstrProp abstrCluster abstrEvType anaphora poss meronym holonym hasMember setMember bridging Figure 1: Sekimo hierarchy of anaphoric relations For cospecLink two sets of secondary relations exist: one set for relations with antecedents of nominal type and one set for abstract entity anaphora. The subtypes of abstract entity anaphora are characterised as follows: abstrProp descr...

We describe three vowel-harmony processes in Tommo So and their interaction with morphological structure. The verbal suffixes of Tommo So occur in a strict linear order, establishing a Kiparskian hierarchy of distance from the root. This distance is respected by all three harmony processes; they ‘peter out’, applying with lower frequency as distance from the root increases. The function relatin...

The paper introduces two control loops for keeping the temperatures at given values based on technological conditions. The design of the control loops is carried out in several steps. Firstly, the regulated plant must be identified. This is done through ident tool in Matlab (simulating a step response to predefined step change) and it leads to linearized mathematical model in a given operating ...