The Linked Multicomponent Robotic Systems are characterized by the existence of a non-rigid linking element. This linking element can produce many dynamical effects that introduce perturbations of the basic system behavior, different from uncoupled systems. We show through a simulation of a distributed control of a hose tranportation system, that even a minimal dynamical feature of the hose (el...

Hydration and preferential hydration of macromolecules are two distinct properties of their multicomponent aqueous solutions. We have experimentally investigated ternary diffusion in a macromolecule-osmolyte-water system in order to characterize and compare these two independent quantities and to experimentally establish their role on the phenomenon of coupled diffusion. Specifically, we report...

The cation distribution in the spinel ferrite system NixMn1-γ-xFe2+γO4 (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and γ = 0.137) has been calculated analytically in complete form as a function of thermodynamic parameters. A generalized theoretical framework based on the O’Neill–Navrotsky model and Newton methods was used to solve a multicomponent system for up to 10 cation species. The relationship between the ca...

This paper describes the system MC-WSD presented for the English Lexical Sample task. The system is based on a multicomponent architecture. It consists of one classifier with two components. One is trained on the data provided for the task. The second is trained on this data and, additionally, on an external training set extracted from the Wordnet glosses. The goal of the additional component i...