background and aims. studies have shown decreased bond strength of composite resin to human and bovine bleached enamel. this study evaluated the effect of sodium ascorbate and delayed bonding on the bond strength of two adhesive systems to bleached enamel. materials and methods. the labial surfaces of 150 sound bovine incisor teeth were abraded with abrasive paper. the teeth were randomly divid...

Synchronization of delayed coupled and stochastically perturbed systems with delayed nonlinear feedback is studied, using as an example circular chains of three and four delayed coupled Ikeda oscillators. It is proved that in the case of multiplicative noise the exact synchronization in the mean occurs for sufficiently large coupling, and an analytic estimate of the sufficient coupling is given...

In this paper, the delayed (memory) feedback synthesis problem for linear parameter varying (LPV) systems with parameter-varying time delays is introduced and addressed. It is assumed that the state-space data and the timedelay depend continuously on the parameters which are measurable in real-time and vary in a compact set with bounded variation rates. Synthesis conditions for stabilization an...

In this chapter sufficient conditions for input-to-state stability (ISS) of delayed systems are presented using Lyapunov-Razumikhin functions. It is shown that ISS multistable systems are robust with respect to delays in the feedback path. First, the approach is illustrated by establishing the ISS property for the model of a nonlinear pendulum, then delay-dependent robustness conditions are der...

In this paper we study synchronization in linearly coupled time-delayed systems. We first consider coupled nonidentical Ikeda systems with a square wave coupling rate. Using the theory of the time-delayed equation, we derive less restrictive synchronization conditions than those resulting from the Krasovskii-Lyapunov theory [Yang Kuang, (Academic Press, New York, 1993)]. Then we consider a wide...