OBJECTIVE The implications of impulsivity in its relationship with binge-eating or purging behaviors remain unclear. This study examined the patterns of eating behaviors and co-morbid impulsive behaviors in individuals with bulimia nervosa n optimally homogeneous classes using latent class analysis (LCA). METHODS All participants (n=180) were asked to complete a series of self-reported invent...

In this paper we develop Lyapunov and invariant set stability theorems for non-linear impulsive dynamical systems. Furthermore, we generalize dissipativity theory to non-linear dynamical systems with impulsive e€ ects. Speci®cally, the classical concepts of system storage functions and supply rates are extended to impulsive dynamical systems providing a generalized hybrid system energy interpre...

Recent investigations have demonstrated that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with a range of impulsive behaviors (e.g., risky sexual behavior and antisocial behavior). The purpose of the present study was to extend extant research by exploring whether emotion dysregulation explains the association between PTSD and impulsive behaviors. Participants were an ethnically diverse s...

Adolescents and young adults who affiliate with friends who engage in impulsive behavior are more likely to engage in impulsive behaviors themselves, and those who associate with prosocial (i.e. more prudent, future oriented) peers are more likely to engage in prosocial behavior. However, it is difficult to disentangle the contribution of peer influence vs. peer selection (i.e., whether individ...

In this paper, a novel intermittent impulsive synchronization scheme is proposed to realize synchronization of two chaotic delayed neural networks. Intermittent impulsive control breaks through the limitation of the upper bound of the impulsive intervals in general impulsive control. In our synchronization scheme, impulsive control is only activated in the control windows, rather than during th...

The investigations are made on the exponential synchronization of the stochastic Lur’e system with nonlinear coupling and impulsive disturbance. The impulsive effects in complex networks could play a positive or a negative role for synchronization. For the sake of simplification and efficiency, a single impulsive controller is designed to realize the synchronization of the impulsive dynamical n...

Impulsive differential equations, which arise in physics, population dynamics, economics, and so forth, are important mathematical tools for providing a better understanding of many real-world models, we refer to [1–5] and the references therein. About the applications of the theory of impulsive differential equations to different areas, for example, see [6–15]. Boundary value problems (BVPs) f...

This present paper addresses impulsive consensus problem in directed networks of dynamic agents having communication delays. Based on impulsive control theory on delayed dynamical systems, a simple impulsive consensus protocol for such networks is proposed, and a generic criterion for solving average consensus problem is analytically derived. It is shown that global average consensus of a direc...

Regarding the importance of the prevention of hazards and adverse environmental impacts in industrial and populated areas such as southern parts of Tehran city, the response of impulsive period ground-supported tanks were assessed. Having considered the study area's soil properties, the response of ground-supported tanks was modelled. Regarding the soil properties of southern parts of Tehran, t...