Stimulation with rhythmic light flicker (photic driving) plays an important role in the diagnosis of schizophrenia, mood disorder, migraine, and epilepsy. In particular, the adjustment of spontaneous brain rhythms to the stimulus frequency (entrainment) is used to assess the functional flexibility of the brain. We aim to gain deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying this technique and ...

The control method of Ott, Grebogi, and Yorke (OGY) is used to stabilize the unstable periodic orbits of a chaotic relay system. Small variations in the height of the relay output are used as control input. The influence of the control activation bound is studied in detail via the one-dimensional Poincaré map of the controlled system. The reduced sensitivity of the multi-step OGY method for hig...

We study the existence, uniqueness and rate of decay of correlation of equilibrium measures associated to robust classes of non-uniformly expanding local diffeomorphisms and Hölder continuous potentials. The approach used in this paper is the spectral analysis of the Ruelle-PerronFrobenius transfer operator. More precisely, we combine the expanding features of the eigenmeasures of the transfer ...

Reports of studies conducted on the survival time of the cysts of Entamoeba histolytica are frequently found in the literature of this parasite (Yorke and Adams, 1926, Jones and Newton, 1950, and Chang, 1950), but the survival time of the trophoxoites of E. histolytica in culture is seldom discussed (Tsuchiya, 1945). The work reported here was therefore undertaken in the hope that a detailed te...

We propose an efficient iterative scheme for calculating the box-counting (capacity) dimension of a chaotic attractor in terms of its average expansion rates. Similar to the Kaplan-Yorke conjecture for the information dimension, this scheme provides a connection between a geometric property of a strange set and its underlying dynamical properties. Our conjecture is demonstrated analytically wit...

Road traffic volumes in intercity roads are generally estimated by probability functions, statistical techniques or meta-heuristic approaches such as artificial neural networks. As the road traffic volumes depend on input variables and mainly road geometrical design, weather conditions, day or night time, weekend or national holidays and so on, these are also estimated by pattern recognition te...

In order to achieve chaotic signal processing, a dedicated chaos processor is required. The chaos processor is composed of two parts: chaos signal generation and chaos signal retrieval (Fig. 1). Chaos signal generation is used to generate chaos signal, while chaos signal retrieval is used to retrieve initial state of received chaos signal. Since chaos signal is analog in nature, with convention...

Accurate detection of weak periodic signals within noise and possibility of secure messaging have made Duffing oscillator (DO) highly important in the field of communication. Investigation on the properties of DO is thus ardently sought for. An elegant approach to accomplish the same is to fabricate electronic circuit simulating DO non-linear equation and to study the effect of input signal amp...

Ulam’s method is a rigorous numerical scheme for approximating invariant densities of dynamical systems. The phase space is partitioned into connected sets and an inter-set transition matrix is computed from the dynamics; an approximate invariant density is read off as the leading left eigenvector of this matrix. When a hole in phase space is introduced, one instead searches for conditional inv...