Bilateral control realizes position synchronization and the “law of action reaction” between two points. To advance applications bilateral control, it is necessary to emphasize environmental adaptability, safety, task execution. Accordingly, system required consider contact with unknown environments realize stable avoid harm operator or object. Thus, a using elastic manipulators proposed in thi...

In this paper, we consider learning a Bayesian collaborative filtering model on a shared cluster of commodity machines. Two main challenges arise: (1) How can we parallelize and distribute Bayesian collaborative filtering? (2) How can our distributed inference system handle elasticity events common in a shared, resource managed cluster, including resource ramp-up, preemption, and stragglers? To...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the fracture resistance of teeth restored with resin composite. Forty-eight maxillary premolar teeth were chosen and randomly divided to six groups: G1 (control): sound teeth; G2: MOD preparation, unrestored; G3: MOD + Adper Single Bond 2/P60; G4: MOD + Adper Easy One/P60; G5: MOD + P90 restorative system; G6: MOD + Adper Easy One/P90 Bond/P90. Speci...

Use of disappearance data as proxies for actual consumption causes inconsistent estimates of own-price retail demand elasticities. A system of equations describing consumer, processor, and producer behavior is used to consistently estimate the retail demand elasticity for beef using available data while avoiding the restrictive assumption of fixed input proportions implicit in disappearance dat...

Ultrasound elasticity imaging has been developed over the last decade to estimate tissue stiffness. Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) quantifies tissue stiffness by measuring the speed of propagating shear waves following acoustic radiation force excitation. This work presents the sequencing and data processing protocols of SWEI using a Verasonics system. The selection of the sequence parame...

This volume is an excellent guide for anyone interested in variational analysis, optimization, and PDEs. It offers a detailed presentation of the most important tools in variational analysis as well as applications to problems in geometry, mechanics, elasticity, and computer vision. Among the new elements in this second edition: coverage of quasi-open sets and quasi-continuity; an increased num...

Complex cloud services rely on different elasticity control processes to deal with dynamic requirement changes and workloads. However, enforcing an elasticity control process to a cloud service does not always lead to an optimal gain in terms of quality or cost, due to the complexity of service structures, deployment strategies, and underlying infrastructure dynamics. Therefore, being able, a p...