M. A. BIOT* A non-linear analysisforfinite strain and stress has been developed and applied to symmetrical deformations around cylindrical and spherical cavities in rock. The material non-linearity which is involved may result porn either elastic or plastic properties. A drastic analytical simplification reduces the problem to the solution of a,first order differential equation. Fracture is ana...

tac (time to amplitude convertor) is one of the most important time measurement instrumentswhich has great significance in many fields of science, especially radiation physics. a tac unit has beendesigned based on the start-stop analog method and nim (nuclear instrument modules) standards. afterdesigning the circuit, it was simulated by pspice software and constructed by discrete and integrated...

Many color digital camera systems exhibit a non-linearity between the input intensity and the output response of the color channels. Although the sensor (CCD) material responds to light intensity in a linear way a non-linearity is often added by the camera manufacturer. Recent research has highlighted that in order to be able to estimate this nonlinearity (sometimes termed gamma) it is necessar...

the rational expectations permanent income hypothesis implies that consumption follows a martingale. however, most empirical tests have rejected the hypothesis. those empirical tests are based on linear models. if the data generating process is non-linear, conventional tests may not assess some of the randomness properly. as a result, inference based on conventional tests of linear models can b...

We study the notion of solvability in the resource calculus, an extension of the λ-calculus modelling resource consumption. Since this calculus is non-deterministic, two different notions of solvability arise, one optimistic (angelical, may) and one pessimistic (demoniac, must). We give a syntactical, operational and logical characterization for the may-solvability and only a partial characteri...