Bipedal locomotion is a challenging control engineering problem due to the non-linear dynamics and postural instability of the bipedal form. In addition to these challenges, some dynamical e↵ects such as the ground reaction force are di cult to model accurately in simulation. To this end, it is essential to develop physical hardware to validate walking control strategies and gait generation met...

Podocytes are lost by detachment from the GBM as viable cells; details are largely unknown. We studied this process in the rat after growth stimulation with FGF-2. Endothelial and mesangial cells responded by hyperplasia, podocytes underwent hypertrophy, but, in the long run, developed various changes that could either be interpreted showing progressing stages in detachment from the GBM or stag...

This study examines the economic consequences of internet financial reporting (IFR) in Taiwan. The results show that the stock prices of IFR firms change more quickly than those of the non-IFR firms using Akaike’s (1969) Final Prediction Error (FPE) methodology. Second, the results from the event study methodology show that the cumulative abnormal returns of the firms with IFR are significantly...

FPE deconstructs and reframes basic neo-liberal assumptions and in the process refocuses economic theory and constructs alternatives. It uses a political economic approach, which is “the study of society as an integrated whole.” This approach identifies and analyzes “social relations as they relate to the economic system of production” (Drache 1978 as quoted in Bezanson and Luxton 2006, 12). A ...

<span lang="EN-US">A dataset containing 1924 observations used in this study to evaluate the effect of 435 different independent variables on one dependent variable. Big data has some issues such as irrelevant and outliers. Therefore, focused analysing comparing impact three variable selection based machine learning techniques, including random forest (RF), support vector machines (SVM), ...

Numerical simulations are used to study the temporal and spectral characteristics of broadband supercontinua generated in photonic crystal fiber. In particular, the simulations are used to follow the evolution with propagation distance of the temporal intensity, the spectrum, and the cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating (XFROG) trace. The simulations allow several important physi...

Stochastic diffusion is a general phenomenon observed in various national and engineering systems. It is typically modeled by either stochastic differential equation (SDE) or Fokker-Planck equation (FPE), which are equivalent approaches. Path integral is an accurate and effective method to solve FPEs. Yet, computational efficiency is the common challenge for path integral and other numerical me...

SUMMARY Based on the marginal likelihood approach, we develop a model selection criterion, MIC, for regression models with the general variance structure. These include weighted regression models, regression models with ARMA errors, growth curve models, and spatial correlation models. We show that MIC is a consistent criterion. For regression models with either constant or non-constant variance...

Target Audience: Researchers interested in MR methods for imaging near metallic implants. Purpose: Recent 3D multispectral imaging (MSI) techniques have dramatically reduced off-resonance artifacts near metal by acquiring multiple 3D-FSE acquisitions at different RF offsets and summing over all RF bins. In-plane distortion, however, remains a problem in areas with extreme local B0 gradients due...

We present a family of Maximum-Distance Separable (MDS) array codes of size ( 1) ( 1), a prime number, and minimum criss-cross distance 3, i.e., the code is capable of correcting any row or column in error, without a priori knowledge of what type of error occurred. The complexity of the encoding and decoding algorithms is lower than that of known codes with the same error-correcting power, sinc...