Alcoholism can be described as a disorder characterized by impulsive decision-making processes, wherein potential short-term appetitive outcomes of drinking (e.g., intoxication) are deemed more important than potential long-term aversive consequences of drinking (e.g., drunk-driving arrests). Separate but interrelated neurocognitive pathways to impulsive decision making exist - one reflected by...

Article history: Accepted 11 March 2009 Available online xxxx 0960-0779/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2009.03.036 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (X. Zhang Please cite this article in press as: Zhang X et a systems. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals (2009), do Three different forms of impulsive T–S models are discussed in this paper; the first one...

As reducing impulse noise in a digital image is a very active research area in image processing, this paper proposes a novel algorithm for digital image impulsive noise detection and reduction based on adaptive nonlinear techniques which seems to be a boom in digital image restoration process. The main objective of this algorithm is to consider a particular digital image as input and make the p...

There is a growing consensus that impulsivity is a multifaceted construct that comprises several components such as impulsive choice and impulsive action. Although impulsive choice and impulsive action have been shown to be the common characteristics of some impulsivity-related psychiatric disorders, surprisingly few studies have directly compared their neural correlates and addressed the quest...

We present a new molecular-dynamics algorithm for integrating the equations of motion for a system of particles interacting with mixed continuous/impulsive forces. This method, which we call Impulsive Verlet, is constructed using operator splitting techniques similar to those that have been used successfully to generate a variety molecular-dynamics integrators. In numerical experiments, the Imp...

Introduction Men are more susceptible to impulsive behavior than women. Epidemiological studies revealed that the impulsive aggressive behavior is affected by genetic factors, and the male-specific Y chromosome plays an important role in this behavior. In this study, we investigated the association between the impulsive aggressive behavior and Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (Y-STRs) loci. ...

This paper investigates synchronization problem of nonlinearly coupled dynamical networks, and an effectively impulsive control scheme is proposed to synchronize the network onto the objective state. Based on the stability analysis of impulsive differential equations, a low-dimensional sufficient condition is derived to guarantee the exponential synchronization in virtual of average impulsive i...

The issue of impulsive synchronization of a class of chaotic systems is investigated. Based on the impulsive theory and linear matrix inequality technique, some less conservative and easily verified criteria for impulsive synchronization of chaotic systems are derived. The proposed method is applied to the original Chua oscillators, and the corresponding synchronization conditions are obtained....

In this Letter, an impulsive synchronization scheme for a chaotic nuclear spin generator is studied. Some novel and less conservative sufficient conditions on varying impulsive distance are established to guarantee the synchronization of the system. In particular, simple conditions are derived for synchronizing the system by equal impulsive distance. The boundaries of the stable regions are als...

This paper focuses on the quadratic stabilization problem for a class of uncertain impulsive switched systems. The uncertainty is assumed to be norm-bounded and enters both the state and the input matrices. Based on the Lyapunov methods, some results on robust stabilization and quadratic stabilization for the impulsive switched system are obtained. A stabilizing state feedback control law reali...