recent studies show significant reduction of postural stability in transtibial amputees (ttas) especially when a perturbation is applied. however, no record has been seen on the consequences of such perturbation on the stump-socket interface pressure (ssip). our objective was to investigate whether such perturbation impose excessive pressures on the stump. we were also interested on the type of...

abstract background: several studies have examined the reflex response of ankle musculature to sudden inversion in noninjured and injured subjects. to date, there have been no studies to determine the effect of versatile degrees & conditions of perturbation on the ankle musculature latency. the purpose of this study was to measure and determine whether there was a difference in ankle musculatur...

We develop new perturbation techniques for conducting convergence analysis of various first-order algorithms a class nonsmooth optimization problems. consider the iteration scheme an algorithm to construct perturbed stationary point set-valued map, and define perturbing parameter by difference two consecutive iterates. Then, we show that calmness condition induced together with local version pr...

These notes are a survey of the material treated in a series of lectures delivered at the Xth Summer School Jorge Andr e Swieca. They are concerned with renormalization in Quantum Field Theories. At the level of perturbation series, we review classical results as Feynman graphs, ultraviolet and infrared divergences of Feynman integrals, Weinberg's theorem and Hepp's theorem, the renormalization...

It is widely believed that a quantum field fluctuation in an inflating background creates the primeval seed perturbation which through subsequent evolution leads to the observed large-scale structure of the universe. The standard inflationary scenario produces a scale-invariant power spectrum quite generically but it produces, unless fine tuned, too large an amplitude for the primordial density...

In this paper, we derive tracking control laws for nonminimum phase nonlinear systems with both fast and slow, possibly unstable, zero dynamics. The fast zero dynamics arise from a perturbation of a nominal system. These fast zeros can be problematic in that they may be in the right half plane and may cause large magnitude tracking control inputs. In this paper, we combine the ideas from recent...

We present a framework for estimating states and parameters in systems that can be described by a detectable linear system perturbed by a nonlinear function of the states, exogenous signals, and a vector of unknown, constant parameters. The estimators designed in this framework consist of two interconnected modules: a parameter estimator that is constructed as though the states and the nonlinea...

The second-order multireference perturbation theory using an optimized partitioning, denoted as MROPT(2), is applied to calculations of various molecular properties-excitation energies, spectroscopic parameters, and potential energy curves-for five molecules: ethylene, butadiene, benzene, N(2), and O(2). The calculated results are compared with those obtained with second- and third-order multir...

Since Moser’s seminal work it is well known that the invariant curves of smooth nearly integrable twist maps of the cylinder with Diophantine rotation number are preserved under perturbation. In this paper we show that, in the analytic class, the result extends to Bryuno rotation numbers. First, we will show that the series expansion for the invariant curves in powers of the perturbation parame...

The areas of analog circuit fault simulation and test generation have not witnessed the same degree of success as their digital counterparts. This is due mainly fo the complexity of analog behavior and the lack of a fault model. We present a new Jicnctional fault modeling technique called the perturbation fault model. The perturbation fault model is based on an estimation of the distance betwee...