The extremum seeking controller (ESC) that minimizes the unknown performance index is applied to the control of SI (spark ignition) engines in the idle speed region. The proposed control system consists in the three parts, fuel-jet mount controller, ignition-timing controller and engine speed controller. The ESC applied to the engine speed controller should be modified in order to improve the e...

Most cognitive scientists know that an airplane tends to lose its engine when the display is flickering. How does such prior experience influence visual search? We recorded eye movements made by vision researchers while they were actively performing a change-detection task. In selected trials, we presented Rensink's familiar 'airplane' display, but with changes occurring at locations other than...

An important radiation field for photomeson neutrino production in blazars is shown to be the radiation field external to the jet. Assuming that protons are accelerated with the same power as electrons and injected with a -2 number spectrum, we predict that km(2) neutrino telescopes will > or similar to 1 neutrinos per year from flat spectrum radio quasars such as 3C 279. The escaping high-ener...

Jet origination is one of the most important questions AGN, yet it stays obscure. In this work, we made use information emission lines, spectral energy distributions (SEDs), \textit{Fermi}-LAT $\gamma$-ray emission, construct a blazar sample that contains 667 sources. We notice jet power originations are different for BL Lacs and FSRQs. The correlation between $P_{\rm jet}$ normalized disk lumi...

According to popular progenitor models of gamma-ray bursts, twin jets should be launched by the central engine, with a forward jet moving toward the observer and a receding jet (or the counter jet) moving backwardly. However, in calculating the afterglows, usually only the emission from the forward jet is considered. Here we present a detailed numerical study on the afterglow from the receding ...