This paper treats deadlocks and liveness of the closed-loop discrete event system GSCSM|f consisting of a strongly connected state machine (SCSM), a subclass of Petri nets, and a state-feedback which realizes the mutually exclusive control. The GSCSM|f is not always live even if the original SCSM is live, and deadlocks exist in GSCSM|f. A deadlock marking is newly defined and the D-net is propo...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the temporal differences among three measures of pharyngeal stage transition in 40 normal subjects. The measures were (1) Pharyngeal Delay Time (PDT), (2) Stage Transition Duration (STD), and (3) Delayed Pharyngeal Swallow (DPS). Results showed a significant difference between younger and older subjects for PDT and STD but not for DPS. No gender ...

Pigs were weaned at 16 to 20 days of age and fed diets containing either dried whey, dried porcine solubles (DPS), or condensed porcine solubles (CPS) for 3 weeks, followed by a common diet for 2 weeks. The results of the trial showed that 5% of either DPS or CPS can replace dried whey protein in diets for weanling with no effect on growth performance up to 5 weeks after weaning

People with some residual vision though still classified as blind may be able to read on screen patterns presented via a computer program whereby such a pattern can represent a textual character and a presentation of sequences of such patterns can represent words. These patterns can be adjusted to utilize the user’s remaining vision capacity. Previous research has shown that volunteers who wher...

In the framework of BOSSE project, a 12 T insulated REBCO solenoid is being manufactured. This magnet will be used as SMES with objective to reach 1 MJ and specific energy 20 kJ/kg for winding. To manufacture this such performances, 21 Double Pancakes (DPs) assembled cooled in liquid helium bath at 4.2 K. validate solenoid's electromagnetic design, prototype DP tested self-field up its critical...

In a Digital Pixel Sensor (DPS), each pixel has an ADC, all ADCs operate in parallel, and digital data is directly read out of the image sensor array as in a conventional digital memory [1]. The DPS architecture offers several advantages over analog image sensors including better scaling with CMOS technology due to reduced analog circuit performance demands and the elimination of column fixed-p...

CMOS image sensors are capable of very high-speed non destructive readout, enabling many novel applications. To explore such applications, we designed and prototyped an experimental high speed imaging system based on a CMOS digital pixel sensor (DPS). The experimental system comprises a PCB that has the DPS chip interfaced to a PC via three I/O cards supported by an easy to use software environ...

Strictly corpus-based measures of semantic distance conflate co-occurrence information pertaining to the many possible senses of target words. We propose a corpus–thesaurus hybrid method that uses soft constraints to generate word-senseaware distributional profiles (DPs) from coarser “concept DPs” (derived from a Roget-like thesaurus) and sense-unaware traditional word DPs (derived from raw tex...