It is well-known that there exists a critical control weighting parameter which results in an unstable controller design if the uncontrolled system is unstable or nonminimum phase and a single stage cost functional is used. The purpose of this note is to show that the determination of this parameter reduces to solving a root-locus problem.

A floating-point analog-to-digital converter (FP-ADC) with a linear architecture has been implemented using an amplifier network in front of a pipeline ADC. The amplifier network has outputs with binary weighted gains, each sampled separately. The signal with the proper gain is then converted in the ADC. This structure allows instant floating point exponent determination. The mismatches in the amp

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internationell privträtt; private international law

Abstract in Spanish Este trabajo presenta algunas reflexiones preliminares acerca del desarrollo rural en el nordeste de Argentina a la luz de los cambios socio-económicos y políticos acontecidos en los últimos veinte años aproximadamente. Así, por ejemplo, los procesos de descentralización que han tenido lugar en este país durante la década de 1990 ilustran la complejidad de las estrategias de de

The classical problem of the Hebrew consecutive tenses is here attacked from a different angle: that of comparative language typology. The article explores parallel typological developments between West Semitic and early Indo-European as pertains to the creation of verbal forms by means of adding an “augment” or temporalizing particle to otherwise Aktionsart- or aspect-based morphological construc

Ligands for the benzodiazepine-binding site of the GABAA receptor can belong to structurally diverse classes of compounds including, in spite of the name of the binding site, many non-benzodiazepine structures. The GABAA receptor is a ligand-gated ion channel assembled of five subunits from eight different classes with multiple isoforms. The physiological effect elicited by benzodiazepines is beli

Construction projects affect the community in both positive and negative ways. Positive effects are, for instance, better communications, better housing, and a higher standard of living. However, construction projects inevitably bring with them deterioration and changes on the local plane, at the site of the construction project. Thus, in construction projects, many different and sometimes controv

A detailed experimental and theoretical investigation has been made on the use of Laser-Induced Incandescence (LII) in two configurations; right-angle LII and backward LII. Both right-angle and backward LII imaging measurements were conducted in simultaneous experiments at various pulse energies. The theoretically calculated LII signals were based on a heat transfer model for soot particles expose