This paper addresses the challenging problem of globally controlling several (and possibly independent) moving agents that together form a whole, generally called swarm, which may display interesting properties. Applications are numerous and can be related either to robotics or computer animation. Assuming the agents are driven by their own dynamics (such act as Newtonian particles), controllin...

the morphology of retinal photoreceptor layer was studied in continuous light-exposed and dark-adapteddomestic male cats (felis catus). the eyes of 12 healthy adult cats (4 in continuous light-exposed group, 4 in continuous dark-adapted group, and 4 in control group) were routinely fixed and studied by electron microscope. results showed that the general structure of photoreceptor layer in this...

the aim of this paper is to prove a common fixed point theorem for nonexpansive type single valued mappings which include both continuous and discontinuous mappings by relaxing the condition of continuity by weak reciprocally continuous mapping. our result is generalize and extends the corresponding result of jhade et al. [p.k. jhade, a.s. saluja and r. kushwah, coincidence and fixed points of ...

background: systolic blood pressure (sbp) and diastolic blood pressure (dbp) are a multi-factorial traits and significantly heritable.glutathione s-transferase (gst) enzyme is involved in detoxification of reactive oxygen species. the present study aimed at finding out the association between gstm1 and gstt1 polymorphisms and mean arterial pressure (map) in iranian population. map, as the impor...

in this paper we introduce continuous $g$-bessel multipliers in hilbert spaces and investigate some of their properties. we provide some conditions under which a continuous $g$-bessel multiplier is a compact operator. also, we show the continuous dependency of continuous $g$-bessel multipliers on their parameters.

Given video footage of a person's face, we present new techniques to automatically recover the face position and the facial expression from each frame in the video sequence. A 3D face model is fitted to each frame using a continuous optimization technique. Our model is based on a set of 3D face models that are linearly combined using 3D morphing. Our method has the advantages over previous tech...

According to different studies of the infant cry, the sub-harmonic components or double series of fundamental frequency as a rule does not occur in the crying of healthy neonates. An acoustic analysis was made of three samples of cry signal (continuous signal or several short phonations), and six phonations of the vowel /a/ by pre-school children with dysphonia and by school children with Down ...

Experiences of users determine their actions and therefore have great influence on the business result of service providers. Thus, it is highly important to know and control these experiences. Decisions and actions are most effective if they are based on individual users and their detailed experience history. Currently available methods for measuring user experience fail in providing sufficient...

With respect to the long-life missions associated with NASA’s X2000 Advanced Deep-Space System Development Program, reliability implies a system’s continuous operation for many years in an unsurveyed radiation-intense environment. Further, the stringent constraints on the mass of a spacecraft and the power on-board create unprecedented challenges on the means for achieving the ultra-high missio...

This paper describes the application of the Momel algorithm to a corpus of spontaneous speech in Standard (Beijing) Chinese. A selection of utterances by four speakers was analysed automatically and the resynthesised utterances were evaluated subjectively with two categories of errors: lexical tone errors and intonation errors. The target points determining the pitch contours of the synthetic u...