Heterogeneity in Youth Symptom Trajectories Following Psychiatric Crisis: Predictors and Placement Outcome.

The authors examined heterogeneity in symptom trajectories among youths following psychiatric crises as well as the psychosocial correlates and placement outcomes associated with identified trajectories. Using semiparametric mixture modeling with 156 youths approved for psychiatric hospitalization, the authors identified 5 trajectories based on symptoms over the 16 months following crisis: high improved, high unimproved, borderline improved, borderline unimproved, and subclinical. Membership in unimproved symptom groups was associated with less suicidality, younger age, more youth hopelessness, and more caregiver empowerment. Improved symptom group membership predicted long-term decreases in days in out-of-home placements. More important, and in contrast with general impressions from the existing literature, findings suggest that a substantive proportion of youths with serious emotional disturbance sustain high levels of symptomatology following intensive mental health services. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Trajectories leading to school-age conduct problems.

The present study applied a semiparametric mixture model to a sample of 284 low-income boys to model developmental trajectories of overt conduct problems from ages 2 to 8. As in research on older children, 4 developmental trajectories were identified: a persistent problem trajectory, a high-level desister trajectory, a moderate-level desister trajectory, and a persistent low trajectory. Follow-up analyses indicated that initially high and low groups were differentiated in early childhood by high child fearlessness and elevated maternal depressive symptomatology. Persistent problem and high desister trajectories were differentiated by high child fearlessness and maternal rejecting parenting. The implications of the results for early intervention research are discussed, with an emphasis on the identification of at-risk parent-child dyads. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Patchy solution of a Francis–Byrnes–Isidori partial differential equation

The solution to the nonlinear output regulation problem requires one to solve a first‐order partial differential equation, known as the Francis–Byrnes–Isidori equations. In this paper, we propose a method to compute approximate solutions to the Francis–Byrnes–Isidori equations when the zero dynamics of the plant are hyperbolic and the exosystem is two dimensional. With our method, we are able to produce approximations that converge uniformly to the true solution. Our method relies on the periodic nature of two‐dimensional analytic center manifolds. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

实时视频中的车辆运动轨迹的提取和聚类

利用运动物体轨迹的方向性、运动性和相互关系等典型特征对物体的运动轨迹进行聚类。首先利用改进的加权矢量Hausdorff距离作为度量运动物体轨迹相似度的方法,从而使之适用于空间距离有差别的运动物体轨迹的谱聚类问题;然后基于等周分割（ISO）算法,构造轨迹相似度矩阵,完成轨迹的粗聚类;最后利用轨迹的方向性特征和轨迹类间距对轨迹进行二次聚类,得到最终的轨迹聚类结果。     

Efficient mutual nearest neighbor query processing for moving object trajectories

Given a set D of trajectories, a query object q, and a query time extent Γ, a mutual (i.e., symmetric) nearest neighbor (MNN) query over trajectories finds from D, the set of trajectories that are among the k₁ nearest neighbors (NNs) of q within Γ, and meanwhile, have q as one of their k₂ NNs. This type of queries is useful in many applications such as decision making, data mining, and pattern recognition, as it considers both the proximity of the trajectories to q and the proximity of q to the trajectories. In this paper, we first formalize MNN search and identify its characteristics, and then develop several algorithms for processing MNN queries efficiently. In particular, we investigate two classes of MNN queries, i.e., MNN_P and MNN_T queries, which are defined with respect to stationary query points and moving query trajectories, respectively. Our methods utilize the batch processing and reusing technology to reduce the I/O cost (i.e., number of node/page accesses) and CPU time significantly. In addition, we extend our techniques to tackle historical continuous MNN (HCMNN) search for moving object trajectories, which returns the mutual nearest neighbors of q (for a specified k₁ and k₂) at any time instance of Γ. Extensive experiments with real and synthetic datasets demonstrate the performance of our proposed algorithms in terms of efficiency and scalability.     

Towards view-invariant gait modeling: Computing view-normalized body part trajectories

This paper proposes an approach to compute view-normalized body part trajectories of pedestrians walking on potentially non-linear paths. The proposed approach finds applications in gait modeling, gait biometrics, and in medical gait analysis. Our approach uses the 2D trajectories of both feet and the head extracted from the tracked silhouettes. On that basis, it computes the apparent walking (sagittal) planes for each detected gait half-cycle. A homography transformation is then computed for each walking plane to make it appear as if walking was observed from a fronto-parallel view. Finally, each homography is applied to head and feet trajectories over each corresponding gait half-cycle. View normalization makes head and feet trajectories appear as if seen from a fronto-parallel viewpoint, which is assumed to be optimal for gait modeling purposes. The proposed approach is fully automatic as it requires neither manual initialization nor camera calibration. An extensive experimental evaluation of the proposed approach confirms the validity of the normalization process.     

Uniting Local and Global Controllers with Robustness to Vanishing Noise

We consider control systems for which we know two stabilizing controllers. One is globally asymptotically stabilizing, the other one is only locally asymptotically stabilizing but for some reason we insist on using it in a neighborhood of the origin. We look for a uniting control law being equal to the local feedback on a neighborhood of the origin, equal to the global one outside of a larger neighborhood and being a globally stabilizing controller. We study several solutions based on continuous, discontinuous, hybrid, time-varying controllers. One criterion of the selection of a controller is the robustness of the stability to vanishing noise. This leads us in particular to consider a kind of generalization of Krasovskii trajectories for hybrid systems. Date received: November 29, 1999. Date revised: August 7, 2000.     

基于脉冲机动的引力辅助深空探测轨道设计

以借助金星引力的火星探测器轨道设计为背景,针对借力前后可能存在的速度不匹配问题,提出了一种施加脉冲机动的解决方式。首先以借力飞行的基本理论为基础,推导了施加脉冲的实现过程。其次,探讨了基于等高线图的引力辅助轨道设计方法,当速度不匹配时,不存在无动力的借力飞行,针对可能发生的速度不匹配的情况,文章采用在引力辅助过程完成之后,施加脉冲,提高探测器的速度,实现了速度不匹配的借力飞行情况。最后研究了遗传算法在引力辅助轨道设计中的应用,以金星借力的火星探测轨道为例,同样在无动力的引力辅助不满足要求的情况下,研究了基于遗传算法的引力辅助轨道优化设计流程,得出与等高线图法基本一致的结果。对两种方法的结果进行比较分析,验证了施加脉冲机动的方法在引力辅助轨道设计中的适用性。     

考虑避碰约束的编队卫星入网路径规划

提出了一种新的考虑避碰约束的编队卫星入网路径规划策略。首先通过常规编队卫星入网的多脉冲线性规划方法,得到一组卫星入网的脉冲序列,以此预测轨道机动过程中各星之间的最小距离,当最小距离小于安全距离时,将最小距离前后脉冲施加时刻的相对位置作为约束条件,重新规划卫星入网轨迹,迭代进行直到满足避碰要求。仿真结果表明,该方法由于减少了路径规划过程中约束条件的个数,能够快速地规划出考虑避碰约束时的编队卫星入网轨迹,且有效节省燃料消耗。