Mass murder is the result of the complex interaction of several factors. What seems ubiquitous within mass murder are extreme feelings of anger and revenge. Yet despite these intense affective states, mass murders are, as a rule, not behaviorally impulsive, but rather prepared. The presence of extreme hate and anger evokes an impulsive outburst of rage, whereas planning and premeditation point ...

Impulsive differential equations play a very important role in understanding mathematical models of real processes and phenomena studied in physics, chemical technology, population dynamics, biotechnology, economics and so on, see [1,2,8,10,17]. About wide applications of the theory of impulsive differential equations to different areas, we refer the readers to monographs [5,7,18,19] and the re...

Psychosis in Parkinson's disease (PD) is currently considered as the occurrence of hallucinations and delusions. The historical meaning of the term psychosis was, however, broader, encompassing a disorganization of both consciousness and personality, including behavior abnormalities, such as impulsive overactivity and catatonia, in complete definitions by the International Classification of Dis...

mpulsive noise consists of relatively short duration " on/off " noise pulses, caused by a variety of sources, such as switching noise, adverse channel environments in a communication system, dropouts or surface degradation of audio recordings, clicks from computer keyboards, etc. An impulsive noise filter can be used for enhancing the quality and intelligibility of noisy signals, and for achiev...

We report a previously undescribed spectroscopic probe that makes use of electrons rescattered during the process of high-order harmonic generation. We excite coherent vibrations in SF(6) using impulsive stimulated Raman scattering with a short laser pulse. A second, more intense laser pulse generates high-order harmonics of the fundamental laser, at wavelengths of approximately 20-50 nm. The h...

We formulate an HIV/AIDS transmission model that considers the dependence of HIV/AIDS progress on infection age the time since infection , disease age the time elapsed since the onset , and impulsive antiretroviral treatment. Since no effective vaccine is available for HIV/AIDS, our impulsive disease-control strategy is targeted at infected individuals I control . Thus the model only includes i...

Power line channels are often badly corrupted by impulsive noise. In this paper, an impulsive noise cancellation method for MIMO power line communication is proposed. First, the received signal is transformed into frequency domain and MIMO detection is carried out. Then, the detected signal is transformed back to time domain and the noise estimation can be obtained by subtracting detected signa...

In this paper we investigate the controllability of an air hockey puck subject to impulsive inputs , which is a special case of the more general problem of impulsive manipulation of rigid objects. We rst formulate the control problem on the tangent bundle of the three dimensional con-guration manifold of the system and characterize the set of velocities reachable with arbitrary impulsive inputs...

Alcoholism can be described as a disorder characterized by impulsive decision-making processes, wherein potential short-term appetitive outcomes of drinking (e.g., intoxication) are deemed more important than potential long-term aversive consequences of drinking (e.g., drunk-driving arrests). Separate but interrelated neurocognitive pathways to impulsive decision making exist - one reflected by...