H. Hennon”, M. Schieber*, R.B. James, E. Y. Lee, N. Yang, A.J. Antola& D.II. Morse, C. HackeU E. Tarver, SandiaNational Laboratories~ivermore, CA, N.N. P. Kolesnikov, YU .N. Ivanov, Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russi~ V. Komar, Institute for Single CrystaIs, National Academy of Science, Kharkov, Ukraine; M.S. Goorsky, H. Yoo~ UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. *Als...

In this paper, the problem of asymptotically stabilizing switched systems consisting of second-order LTI subsystems is studied and solved. In a previous paper, the stabilization problem of switched systems consisting of subsystems with unstable foci was addressed. This paper extends the method therein to the stabilization of switched systems consisting of general second-order LTI subsystems. Ne...

This paper reports on the use of ‘co-operative evaluation’ to investigate tourists' decision making behaviours when using Internet resources. Co-operative evaluation is a qualitative ‘think-aloud’ technique used to investigate usability problems in interactive systems. In this study, the technique is adapted to examine both interaction problems and decision-making activities of subjects attempt...

Linguistically annotated treebanks play an essential part in the modern computational linguistics. The more complex the treebanks become, the more sophisticated tools are required for using them, namely for searching in the data. We study linguistic phenomena annotated in the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0 and create a list of requirements these phenomena set on a search tool, especially on its...

This paper considers the Model Predictive Control (MPC) set point tracking/regulation problem for a discrete LTI system, which is subject to a class of unbounded disturbances/tracking signals called extended constant signals. The main contribution is a formulation of the system’s plant equations under which, for output regulation, no knowledge of the structure or magnitude of disturbances is ne...

We present several ways of measuring the inter-annotator agreement in the ongoing annotation of semantic inter-sentential discourse relations in the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT). Two ways have been employed to overcome limitations of measuring the agreement on the exact location of the start/end points of the relations. Both methods – skipping one tree level in the start/end nodes, and the ...

one The Roswell Park History of PDT: 1972 to the Present: A Personal Perspective, Thomas J. Dougherty ......................................................................1 two Principles of Photodynamic Therapy-Induced Killing of Tumor Cells, Nancy L. Oleinick and David Kessel .............................................................. 19 three PDT Laser Physics and Safety, Tom Mang .........

We consider a class of MIMO LTI models with uncertain resonant modes and time delays, which are common in control of instabilities arising in jet engines. With uncertain delays preventing the use of model reference adaptive control, we develop an adaptive MIMO pole placement scheme for the system. We use indirect adaptation, estimating a small number of physical parameters from a nonlinearly pa...

UNLABELLED The Test of Mobile Phone Dependence (TMD) questionnaire (Chóliz, 2012) evaluates the main features of mobile phone dependence: tolerance, abstinence syndrome, impaired impulse control, associated problems, excessive use, etc. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to develop a multicultural version of the TMD (TMDbrief) adapted to suit the novel communication tools of smartphone...

The article reveals the main results of the training conditions complex ensuring effective implementation of the ecologization process. It has ecological and information, didactic, psychological and pedagogical, social and organizational aspects. Activities on the development of environmental readiness of military specialist will bring more success in creating these conditions in the real effec...