In the lower leg, landing after a jump induces reflexes, the role of which is not well understood. This is even more so for reflexes following landing on inverting surfaces. The latter condition is of special interest since ankle inversion traumata are one of the most common injuries during sport. Most studies have investigated ankle inversions during a static standing condition. However, ankle...

In this paper, we present conditions for the stabilization and regulation of the tracking error for an n-dimensional minimum-phase system preceded by a Prandtl-Ishlinskii hysteresis operator. A general controller structure is considered; however, we assume that an integral action is present. The common Lyapunov function theorem is utilized together with a Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) conditio...

Stress cardiomyopathy—apical ballooning, tako-tsubo syndrome, or transient apical dyskinesia—is an intriguing condition of unknown etiology. It typically affects older women who, after an event causing physical or emotional stress, present chest pain and ST elevation on the anterior aspect of the ECG (although it may also show T-wave inversion, depressed ST, or normal findings). At presentation...

This paper attempts to account for why Chinese locative inversion exhibits crosslinguistically peculiar distributional properties. I argue that the attested crosslinguistic differences are attributed to the differences in the way the socalled “state subevent condition” (Nakajima 2001) is satisfied. Specifically, I claim that it is an operation on the event structure that allows certain nonpassi...

Anew computationally efficient directmethod is applied to estimating unsaturated hydraulic properties during steady-state infiltration and evaporation at soil surface. For different soil types with homogeneous and layered heterogeneity, soil hydraulic parameters and unsaturated conductivities are estimated. Unlike the traditional indirect inversion method, the direct method does not require for...

The rapid visual detection of other people in our environment is an important first step in social cognition. Here we provide evidence for selective sensitivity of the human visual system to upright depictions of conspecifics. In a series of seven experiments, we assessed the impact of stimulus inversion on the detection of person silhouettes, headless bodies, faces and other objects from a wid...

One of the most remarkable basis of the gravity data inversion is the recognition of sharp boundaries between an ore body and its host rocks during the interpretation step. Therefore, in this work, it is attempted to develop an inversion approach to determine a 3D density distribution that produces a given gravity anomaly. The subsurface model consists of a 3D rectangular prisms of known sizes ...

An infinitely long hollow cylinder containing isotropic linear elastic material is considered under the effect of arbitrary boundary stress and thermal condition. The two-dimensional coupled thermoelastodynamic PDEs are specified based on equations of motion and energy equation, which are uncoupled using Nowacki potential functions. The Laplace integral transform and Bessel-Fourier series are u...

In this paper, an approach for fault detection and isolation filter design based on the reconstruction of the fault modes is presented. Input reconstruction and a very closely related concept, the system inversion is addressed to the fault detection and isolation problem. Moreover, the basic concept of that field, the fault detectability, output separability, and the fault detection and isolati...