We show that there exists an explicit descriptor state space format which actually describes all strictly passive transfer functions. A key advantage of this explicitly strictly passive descriptor state space format resides in its relation with congruence projection-based reduced order modeling, where the resulting reduced order model is also cast in this same format. Another advantage of the f...

This paper describes a method to implement the functionality of shared passive packages on top of a logical distributed memory — Linda. From a shared passive package a compiler can construct a new normal package that replaces the shared passive package. The new package contains the same subprograms and is extended with abstract data structures mapping Ada objects onto the storage units of Linda...

Query-based diagnostics (Agosta, Gardos, & Druzdzel, 2008) offers passive, incremental construction of diagnostic models that rest on the interaction between a diagnostician and a computer-based diagnostic system. Effectively, this approach minimizes knowledge engineering, the main bottleneck in practical application of Bayesian networks. While this idea is appealing, it has undergone only limi...

We formulate the mass transfer problem for a passive additive in a turbulent boundary layer based on the recently proposed model of the turbulent boundary layer at very large Reynolds numbers. The solutions of three basic problems are obtained. These solutions are self-similar asymptotics describing the mass exchange at its initial stages. The solutions obtained can be used for the construction...

A set of modular components is presented for use in reconfigurable robotic construction systems. The set includes passive and active components. The passive components can be formed into static structures and adaptable grids carrying electrical power and signals. Passive and active components canbe combined into general purpose mobile manipulators which are able to augment and reconfigure the g...

This paper is about the impersonal passive construction of which modern Irish, a VSO language, has two forms. The impersonal passive form occurs with all verbs of Irish, across all tenses, whether intransitive or transitive. In the second form, the impersonal passive form is to be found productively with the substantive verb (one of the two verbs of ‘to be’ in Irish) across all tenses. It does ...

In HPSG grammars for English (Pollard and Sag, 1987, p. 214–218) and in LFG (Bresnan, 1982), the passive is analyzed as a lexical rule. For German many authors followed Haider (1986a) and analyzed the passive as object-to-subject-raising (Kathol, 1991, 1994; Heinz and Matiasek, 1994; Lebeth, 1994; Pollard, 1994; Müller, 1999). The advantage of the raising analysis is that one entry for the part...

Building on previous research on the bei construction in Chinese and similar forms in other East Asian languages in Huang (1999) and other works, this paper offers a further comparative perspective on Chinese-type passives and their parametric variation with a consideration of passive structures in Vietnamese, an Austroasiatic language which has received much historical influence from Chinese. ...

We present a decentralized algorithmic approach to automatically building user-specified three-dimensional structures from modular units. Our bipartite system comprises passive units (blocks), responsible for embodying the structure and determining where further units can legally be attached, and active units (robots), responsible for transporting passive units. The algorithmic issues are corre...

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the aspectual properties of middle constructions in English. English middle constructions are non-eventive sentences deno ting a property of the grammatical subject. Middle formation seems to have certain similarities with passivization as both processes involve demotion or deletion of the external argument and promotion of the internal argument to...