Dynamics of Balancing Space and Time in Memory: Tau and Kappa Effects Revisited.

In 3 experiments, the authors studied the organization of spatiotemporal information in memory. Stimuli consisted of configurations of dots, presented sequentially. The stimuli were either proportional, with interdot distances corresponding to interdot durations, or not proportional, with interdol distances not corresponding to interdot durations. After a learning phase, participants reproduced the spatial (Experiment 1), temporal (Experiment 2), or spatial and temporal (Experiment 3) characteristics of the target 60 times in succession. In the nonproportional conditions, effects of variable interdot durations or distances on the reproduction of, respectively, constant distances (tau effect) or durations (kappa effect) were observed, whereas no such effects were observed when variable distances or durations were to be produced. Tau and kappa effects influenced the accuracy but not the variability of responses. The results are discussed in light of the distinction between properties of the stabilized mental image and the process of stabilization. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Determination of optimal feedback terminal controllers for general boundary conditions using generating functions

Given a nonlinear system and a performance index to be minimized, we present a general approach to expressing the finite time optimal feedback control law applicable to different types of boundary conditions. Starting from the necessary conditions for optimality represented by a Hamiltonian system, we solve the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for a generating function for a specific canonical transformation. This enables us to obtain the optimal feedback control for fundamentally different sets of boundary conditions only using a series of algebraic manipulations and partial differentiations. Furthermore, the proposed approach reveals an insight that the optimal cost functions for a given dynamical system can be decomposed into a single generating function that is only a function of the dynamics plus a term representing the boundary conditions. This result is formalized as a theorem. The whole procedure provides an advantage over methods rooted in dynamic programming, which require one to solve the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation repetitively for each type of boundary condition. The cost of this favorable versatility is doubling the dimension of the partial differential equation to be solved.     

轮式工程机械轮边减速器优化模型与方法

论述了重构轮式工程机械轮边减速器优化设计数学模型的必要性,给出了精确化的目标函数,全面化和准确化的设计变量、基于并行设计的约束条件;介绍了对优化解适用性评价的方法和手段。巧妙地解决了优化解中离散变量的圆整问题,提供了基于MATLAB的求解反渐开线函数的M文件。     

小议变动成本法的合理性

企业对盈亏临界点的计算通常是以变动成本法为基础，但也有以制造成本法为计算基础的，对于这两种成本方法计算的几种盈亏临界点的情况，本文结合案例，通过比较分析认为：盈亏临界点的计算应当以变动成本法为基础更为合理。     

砼受压损伤力学本构模型的研究

本文利用ＭＴＳ公司８１５．０２型电液伺服试验系统对砼进行了等应变速率加载控制的应力一应变全曲线试验，应用不可逆热力学和内变量理论的成果建立了砼损伤力学模型，并用概率统计的观点分析了损伤的演化规律。由于考虑了不可逆变形的影响，本文所建本构模型与实验吻合较好。     

Optimizing a multiserver queuing system with a variable number of servers

A multiserver Poisson queuing system with losses, with a variable number of servers, and an additive quality functional is investigated. All major characteristic of the system are obtained in an explicit form. __________ Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 4, pp. 92–101, July–August 2007.     

Identification of delayed system using instrumental variable method

System identification uses system inputs and outputs to raise mathematical models.Various techniques of system identification exist that offer a nominal model and an uncertainty bound.Many practical systems such as thermal processes & chemical processes have inbuilt time delay.If the time delay used in the system model for controller design does not concur with the actual process time delay,a closed-loop system may be unstable or demonstrate unacceptable transient response characteristics so here the time delay is assumed to be time-invariant. This paper proposes on-line identification of delayed complex/uncertain systems using instrumental variable(Ⅳ) method.Parametric uncertainty has been considered which may be represented by variations of certain system parameters over some possible range.This method allows consistent estimation when the system parameters are associated with the noise terms,as the IV methods(IVM’s)usually make no assumption on the noise correlation configuration.The faster convergence of the parameters including noise terms has been proved in this paper.Iterative prefiltering(IP)method has also been used for the identification of the delayed uncertain system and the graphical results given in this paper demonstrate that the convergence results are inferior to the instrumental variable method.     

基于多模型半参数非线性回归模型的外弹道节省参数估计

双星定位系统的应用是外弹道估计中的一种发展趋势。文章给出基于双星、光雷的联合测量模型,建立基于半参数回归的外弹道节省参数估计模型;给出基于半参数回归的外弹道节省参数估计算法及计算步骤,并从理论上分析了基于半参数回归的外弹道节省参数估计算法能有效地消除非线性因素对参数估计性能的影响,其估计精度优于经典的节省参数建模方法,并通过仿真得到：该算法确实有效。     

给排水设备的电气控制安装与调试

针对2011年和2012年全国中职院校竞赛项目使用的《建筑设备给排水控制调试装置》设备,对其电气控制部分的安装调试过程进行分解。     

Concurrent reading while writing revisited

A modification is proposed to Peterson's construction of 1-writern-reader multivalued atomic shared variableusingn+2 multivalued safe variables and some boolean atomic variables. The resulting construction is elegant and is simpler than the original one. K. Vidyasankar received B.E. (Elec. Engg.) from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, M. Tech. from I.I.T. Kanpur, India, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Waterloo, Canada. He is now an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. His research interests include concurrency control and recovery in database systems, concurrency in interprocess communication, design and analysis of algorithms, and graph theory.A prelininary version of this paper, under the title Improving Peterson's Construction of 1-Writern-Reader Multivalued Atomic Register, appears in the Proc. 26th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, September 1988, pp 693–700