cable driven parallel manipulator (cdpm) is a special class of parallel manipulator in which the rigid extensible links are replaced by actuated cables. it is necessary to take into consideration the cable dynamics, i.e.; its mass, flexibility and curved shape for manipulating a long-span cdpm. these terms complicate governing equation of motion in a way that special tactic are applied for simu...

The main regulatory mechanism of smooth muscle contraction involves Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent phosphorylation of myosin (CDPM), by myosin light chain kinase (MLCK). It is also known that the increase in intracellular Ca2+ and phosphorylation of myosin occurs within a short time under physiological conditions, but the muscle tension may persist for a longer period of time. However, the mec...

Marketing variables included in consumer discrete choice models are often endogenous. Extant treatments using likelihood-based estimators impose parametric distributional assumptions such as normality, on the source of endogeneity. These assumptions are restrictive as misspecified distributions have an impact on parameter estimates and associated elasticities. The normality assumption for endog...

Morgan and colleagues put forth a call to action for the transformation of the Canadian healthcare system through the adoption of a national chronic disease prevention and management (CDPM) strategy. They offer examples of best practices and national solutions including investment in clinical information technologies to help support improved care and outcomes. Although we acknowledge that the a...

Any renewal processes on [Formula: see text] with a polynomial tail, with exponent [Formula: see text], has a non-trivial scaling limit, known as the [Formula: see text]-stable regenerative set. In this paper we consider Gibbs transformations of such renewal processes in an i.i.d. random environment, called disordered pinning models. We show that for [Formula: see text] these models have a univ...

Structural equation models (SEMs) with latent variables are widely useful for sparse covariance structure modeling and for inferring relationships among latent variables. Bayesian SEMs are appealing in allowing for the incorporation of prior information and in providing exact posterior distributions of unknowns, including the latent variables. In this article, we propose a broad class of semipa...

The aim of this article is to reveal how the paratext features Georges Perec's La Disparition, which one most striking examples writing under constraint, affect reception main text. corpus consists Turkish copy Kayboluş translated by Cemal Yardimci and printed from Sel Publications in 2000 as well English version A-void Gilbert Adair, published Vintage Random House 2008. analysis will be based ...

Transitional rural China faces more serious challenges in its sustainable development. How to regain the vital momentum of those historically and culturally preeminent villages, among over 680,000 administrative villages in total, has become the pressing agenda for all the stakeholders, due to the fact that these villages have huge potential to be the leverage for successful rural transition an...