Quadratic programming (QP)-based controllers allow many robotic systems, such as humanoids, to successfully undertake complex motions and interactions. However, these approaches rely heavily on adequately capturing the underlying model of environment robot’s dynamics. This assumption, nevertheless, is rarely satisfied, we usually turn well-tuned end-effector PD compensate for mismatches. In thi...

We investigate the three-dimensional Pand S-wave attenuation (Q P and Q S ) structures of the crust around the source region of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, Japan. To estimate the attenuation structures, the path-averaged attenuation factor t∗ is estimated from the amplitude decay rate of the Pand S-wave spectra corrected for the source spectrum. The Q P and Q S structures are estimated by to...

Little information is available on the length of the systolic time intervals in adult patients with isolated ventricular septal defects (VSD). In the present study the external carotid pulse and the phono- and electrocardiogram were recorded in 17 patients, mean age 29 years, with angiographically proved VSD. They had unidirectional left-to-right shunts with ratios of pulmonary-to-systemic bloo...

The idea that choices can have a constructive effect has received a great deal of empirical support. The act of choosing appears to influence subsequent preferences for the options available. Recent research has proposed a cognitive model based on quantum probability (QP), which suggests that whether or not a participant provides an affective evaluation for a positively or negatively valenced s...

This paper proposes a new query pattern-based relational schema-to-XML schema translation (QP-T) algorithm to resolve implicit referential integrity issue. Various translation methods have been introduced on structural aspects and/or semantic aspects. However, most of conventional methods consider only explicit referential integrities specified by relational schema. It causes several problems s...

Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) can establish latent infections with distinct gene expression patterns referred to as latency types. These different latency types are epigenetically stable and correspond to different promoter utilization. Here we explore the three-dimensional conformations of the EBV genome in different latency types. We employed Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) assay to investiga...

Conventional bitrate control algorithms that change only the quantization parameter (QP) often suffer from quality degradation when the target bitrate is very low. Therefore, rate control algorithms that adjust spatial resolution in addition to QP control have recently been proposed, but their computations are too complex to be processed in real time. This research proposes a very simple, but e...

This comment suggests that Pothos & Busmeyer (P&B) do not provide an intuitive rational foundation for quantum probability (QP) theory to parallel standard logic and classical probability (CP) theory. In particular, the intuitive foundation for standard logic, which underpins CP, is the elimination of contradictions – that is, believing p and not-p is bad. Quantum logic, which underpins QP, exp...

Productivity analysis is done on the new algorithm “Second Order Support Vector Machine (SOSVM)”, which could be thought as an offshoot of the popular SVM and based on its conventional QP version as well as the LP one. Our main goal is to produce a machine which is: 1) sparse & efficient; 2) powerful (kernel based) but not overfitted; 3) easily realizable. Experiments on benchmark data shows th...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the only known human lymphocryptovirus (LCV), displays a remarkable degree of genetic and biologic identity to LCVs that infect Old World primates. Within their natural hosts, infection by these viruses recapitulates many key aspects of EBV infection, including the establishment of long-term latency within B lymphocytes, and is therefore a potentially valuable animal m...