How Small Neighborhood Convenience Store Operators in Ecuador and Mexico View the Growing Presence of Retired Americans

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-105
Author(s):  
Philip D. Sloane ◽  
Maria Gabriela Castro ◽  
Erika Munshi
Keyword(s):  
Small Neighborhood ◽  
Convenience Store

Continuity of homotopies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehud Hrushovski ◽  
François Loeser
Keyword(s):  
Open Subset ◽  
Small Neighborhood ◽  
Unit Vector ◽  
Zariski Topology ◽  
Simple Point ◽  
Smooth Variety ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Generic Type ◽  
Zariski Open Subset

This chapter includes some additional material on homotopies. In particular, for a smooth variety V, there exists an “inflation” homotopy, taking a simple point to the generic type of a small neighborhood of that point. This homotopy has an image that is properly a subset of unit vector V, and cannot be understood directly in terms of definable subsets of V. The image of this homotopy retraction has the merit of being contained in unit vector U for any dense Zariski open subset U of V. The chapter also proves the continuity of functions and homotopies using continuity criteria and constructs inflation homotopies before proving GAGA type results for connectedness. Additional results regarding the Zariski topology are given.

Adaptive control based on Barrier Lyapunov function for a class of full-state constrained stochastic nonlinear systems with dead-zone and unmodeled dynamics

2021 ◽  
pp. 014233122098563
Author(s):  
Fei Shen ◽  
Xinjun Wang ◽  
Xinghui Yin
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Control ◽  
Nonlinear Systems ◽  
Lyapunov Function ◽  
Dead Zone ◽  
Small Neighborhood ◽  
Unmodeled Dynamics ◽  
Stochastic Nonlinear Systems ◽  
Dynamic Surface ◽  
Barrier Lyapunov Function ◽  
Full State

This paper investigates the problem of adaptive control based on Barrier Lyapunov function for a class of full-state constrained stochastic nonlinear systems with dead-zone and unmodeled dynamics. To stabilize such a system, a dynamic signal is introduced to dominate unmodeled dynamics and an assistant signal is constructed to compensate for the effect of the dead zone. Dynamic surface control is used to solve the “complexity explosion” problem in traditional backstepping design. Two cases of symmetric and asymmetric Barrier Lyapunov functions are discussed respectively in this paper. The proposed Barrier Lyapunov function based on backstepping method can ensure that the output tracking error converges in the small neighborhood of the origin. This control scheme can ensure that semi-globally uniformly ultimately boundedness of all signals in the closed-loop system. Two simulation cases are proposed to verify the effectiveness of the theoretical method.

Decentralized adaptive tracking control for high-order interconnected stochastic nonlinear time-varying delay systems with stochastic input-to-state stable inverse dynamics by neural networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (13) ◽  
pp. 3612-3625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Qian ◽  
Wang Qiangde ◽  
Wei Chunling ◽  
Zhang Zhengqiang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Tracking Control ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Inverse Dynamics ◽  
Small Neighborhood ◽  
High Order ◽  
Interconnected Systems ◽  
Delay Systems ◽  
Rbf Neural Networks ◽  
Stochastic Input

The paper solves the problem of a decentralized adaptive state-feedback neural tracking control for a class of stochastic nonlinear high-order interconnected systems. Under the assumptions that the inverse dynamics of the subsystems are stochastic input-to-state stable (SISS) and for the controller design, Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks (NN) are used to cope with the packaged unknown system dynamics and stochastic uncertainties. Besides, the appropriate Lyapunov-Krosovskii functions and parameters are constructed for a class of large-scale high-order stochastic nonlinear strong interconnected systems with inverse dynamics. It has been proved that the actual controller can be designed so as to guarantee that all the signals in the closed-loop systems remain semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded, and the tracking errors eventually converge in the small neighborhood of origin. Simulation example has been proposed to show the effectiveness of our results.

Convenience Store Program: Changing the Environment for Better Heart Health

2011 ◽  
Vol 111 (9) ◽  
pp. A86
Author(s):  
R.L. Fliszar ◽  
R.F. Pereira ◽  
J. Boucher ◽  
C. Osterhaus
Keyword(s):  
Convenience Store ◽  
Heart Health

scholarly journals On Periodic Perturbations of Asymmetric Duffing–Van-der-Pol Equation

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (05) ◽  
pp. 1450061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert D. Morozov ◽  
Olga S. Kostromina
Keyword(s):  
Saddle Point ◽  
Limit Cycles ◽  
Small Neighborhood ◽  
Integrable Equation ◽  
Van Der Pol Equation ◽  
Van Der Pol ◽  
Periodic Perturbations ◽  
Autonomous Equation ◽  
Nonautonomous Equation ◽  
Time Periodic

Time-periodic perturbations of an asymmetric Duffing–Van-der-Pol equation close to an integrable equation with a homoclinic "figure-eight" of a saddle are considered. The behavior of solutions outside the neighborhood of "figure-eight" is studied analytically. The problem of limit cycles for an autonomous equation is solved and resonance zones for a nonautonomous equation are analyzed. The behavior of the separatrices of a fixed saddle point of the Poincaré map in the small neighborhood of the unperturbed "figure-eight" is ascertained. The results obtained are illustrated by numerical computations.

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