scholarly journals Second-Order Horizontal Synchrosqueezing of the S-transform: a Specific Wavelet Case Study

Author(s):  
Dominique Fourer ◽  
Francois Auger
Keyword(s):  
Axioms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Maya Briani ◽  
Emiliano Cristiani ◽  
Paolo Ranut

In this paper, we propose two models describing the dynamics of heavy and light vehicles on a road network, taking into account the interactions between the two classes. The models are tailored for two-lane highways where heavy vehicles cannot overtake. This means that heavy vehicles cannot saturate the whole road space, while light vehicles can. In these conditions, the creeping phenomenon can appear, i.e., one class of vehicles can proceed even if the other class has reached the maximal density. The first model we propose couples two first-order macroscopic LWR models, while the second model couples a second-order microscopic follow-the-leader model with a first-order macroscopic LWR model. Numerical results show that both models are able to catch some second-order (inertial) phenomena such as stop and go waves. Models are calibrated by means of real data measured by fixed sensors placed along the A4 Italian highway Trieste–Venice and its branches, provided by Autovie Venete S.p.A.


Author(s):  
Evan Barba

Second-order effects refer to changes within a system that are the result of changes made somewhere else in the system (the first-order effects). Second-order effects can occur at different spatial, temporal, or organizational scales from the original interventions, and are difficult to control. Some organizational theorists suggest that careful management of feedback processes can facilitate controlled change from one organizational configuration to another. Recognizing that skill in managing feedback processes is a core competency of design suggests that design skills are potentially useful tools in achieving organizational change. This paper describes a case study in which a co-design methodology was used to control the second-order effects resulting from a classroom intervention to create organizational change. This approach is then theorized as the Instigator Systems approach.


2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (08) ◽  
pp. 1750104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef Khmou

This short paper is focused on the bifurcation theory found in map functions called evolution functions that are used in dynamical systems. The most well-known example of discrete iterative function is the logistic map that puts into evidence bifurcation and chaotic behavior of the topology of the logistic function. We propose a new iterative function based on Lorentizan function and its generalized versions, based on numerical study, it is found that the bifurcation of the Lorentzian function is of second-order where it is characterized by the absence of chaotic region.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (206) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Ailton Queiroz Junior ◽  
Antonio Ribeiro Santos Junior

With the expressive increase in the demand for increasingly tall and robust constructions, plus more and more complex structural details that end up becoming a key element for the projects of the structures of the undertakings, it is important to consider the efforts made by the reinforced concrete structures are subjected. In this sense, the present work has as objective the approach of the parameters of global stability a and Yz followed by the verification of the efforts on the pavements and the displacements of the building caused by the loads acting on the structure. In this work, the use of the global stability parameter a and Yz, which is of fundamental relevance and also prescribed in NBR 6118 (ABNT, 2014), was evaluated. The use of the parameter a considered for the evaluation of the overall stability of the structure, but which is not capable of estimating second order efforts, allows us to classify a structure as being of fixed or mobile nodes. The Yz parameter, on the other hand, can be used to obtain second order efforts. To carry out this work, a case study was launched in the structural analysis software Ftool. The present analysis carried out showed that it is possible to conceive a bracing system for a building with up to 30 floors, using the pillar-wall solution having as a substitute resource for the aforementioned solution the solution of frames formed by beams and columns addressed continuously by tall building literature. Therefore, it is worth mentioning that the solution with wall pillars tends to be more expensive than the solution with frames, a system adopted in the development of this work due to the economic viability of the construction, in view of a higher consumption of materials in the superstructure and also higher costs in the construction. execution of foundations, due to the efforts that will be generated in the building (horizontal forces and bending moments).


Gesture ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lempert

Gesture in political oratory and debate is renowned for its nonreferential indexical functions, for the way it purportedly can indicate qualities of speaker and materialize acts of persuasion — functions famously addressed in Quintilian’s classic writings but understudied today. I revisit this problematic through a case study of precision-grip (especially thumb to tip of forefinger) in Barack Obama’s debate performances (2004–2008). Cospeech gesture can index valorized attributes of speaker — not directly but through orders of semiotic motivation. In terms of first-order indexicality, precision-grip highlights discourse in respect of information structure, indicating focus. In debate, precision grip has undergone a degree of conventionalization and has reemerged as a second-order pragmatic resource for performatively “making a ‘sharp’, effective point.” Repetitions and parallelisms of precision grip in debate can, in turn, exhibit speaker-attributes, such as being argumentatively ‘sharp’, and from there may even partake in candidate branding.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miao Yu ◽  
Weipeng Shang ◽  
Zhigang Chen

This paper is devoted to the study of exponential synchronization problem for second-order nodes in dynamical network with time-varying communication delays and switching communication topologies. Firstly, a decomposition approach is employed to incorporate the nodes’ inertial effects into the distributed control design. Secondly, the sufficient conditions are provided to guarantee the exponential synchronization of second-order nodes in the case that the information transmission is delayed and the communication topology is balanced and arbitrarily switched. Finally, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results, it is applied to the typical second-order nodes in dynamical network, as a case study. Simulation results indicate that the proposed method has a high performance in synchronization of such network.


1995 ◽  
Vol 05 (06) ◽  
pp. 1749-1755 ◽  
Author(s):  
XING HUO YU

A case study is presented to demonstrate the discretization chaos in the switching control system with only finite switching values. It is proved that for the second order oscillator, with several classes of sampling periods, discrete switching control enables periodic motions around the desired equilibrium. The pattern of the discretized system is determined by the initial conditions as well as the sampling periods. Simulation results are presented to confirm the theoretical investigations.


2004 ◽  
Vol 43 (16) ◽  
pp. 5069-5079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Curreli ◽  
Paola Deplano ◽  
Christophe Faulmann ◽  
Andrea Ienco ◽  
Carlo Mealli ◽  
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2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Hune ◽  
Anders B. Sandholm

We study a method for synthesizing control programs. The<br />method merges an existing control program with a control automaton.<br />For specifying the control automata we have used monadic second order<br />logic over strings. Using the Mona tool, specifications are translated into<br />automata. This yields a new control program restricting the behavior of<br />the old control program such that the specifications are satisfied. The<br />method is presented through a concrete example.


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