Robustness, Princeton University Press, 2008, 9780691114422, 2008 ...

Robustness, Princeton University Press, 2008, 9780691114422, 2008, 435 pages Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis, networks of interacting proteins orchestrate the responses of living cells to a variety of external stimuli 1, but how sensitive is the functioning of these protein networks to variations in theirbiochemical parameters? One possibility is that to achieve appropriate function. Robustness in simple biochemical networks, cells use complex networks of interacting molecular components to transfer and process information. These computational devices of living cells 1 are responsible for many important cellular processes, including cell-cycle regulation and signal transduction. Here. The robustness of test statistics to nonnormality and specification error in confirmatory factor analysis, monte Carlo computer simulations were used to investigate the performance of three χ 2 test statistics in confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Normal theory maximum likelihood χ 2 (ML), Browne's asymptotic distribution free χ 2 (ADF), and the Satorra-Bentler rescaled. Synchronization in scale-free dynamical networks: robustness and fragility, recently, it has been demonstrated that many large complex networks display a scale-free feature, that is, their connectivity distributions are in the power-law form. In this paper, we investigate the synchronization phenomenon in scale-free dynamical networks. We show. A framework to analyze the robustness of social-ecological systems from an institutional perspective, what makes social-ecological systems (SESs) robust? In this paper, we look at the institutional configurations that affect the interactions among resources, resource users, public infrastructure providers, and public infrastructures. We propose a framework that. Adaptive control: stability, convergence and robustness, with a focus on linear, continuous time, single-input, single-output systems, this volume surveys the major results and techniques of analysis in the field of adaptive control. The authors offer a clear, conceptual presentation of adaptive methods, enabling a critical. Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building, robustness may be defined as the property of a procedure which renders the answers it gives insensitive to departures, of a kind which occur in practice, from ideal assumptions. Since assumptions imply some kind of scientific model, I believe that it is necessary to look. Robustness of the linear and quadratic discriminant function to certain types of nonâ normality, 1---matrix. Thus, in the case of imiltivariare nodit) i, me is led to a linear bction of the observations as fie appmpriate classification statistic. If the parameters of the distribution are mhm, it is reasonable to replace then by their mxinarm likelihomd estimates. An alternative. The robustness of critical period effects in second language acquisition, this study was designed to test the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis (Bley-Vroman, 1988), which states that, whereas children are known to learn language almost completely through (implicit) domain-specific mechanisms, adults have largely lost the ability to learn. A general qualitative definition of robustness, two very closely related definitions of robustness of a sequence of estimators are given which take into account the types of deviations from parametric models that occur in practice. These definitions utilize the properties of the Prokhorov distance between probability. An evaluation of the relative robustness of techniques for ecological ordination, simulated vegetation data were used to assess the relative robustness of ordination techniques to variations in the model of community variation in relation to environment. The methods compared were local non-metric multidimensional scaling (LNMDS), detrended. Network robustness and fragility: Percolation on random graphs, recent work on the Internet, social networks, and the power grid has addressed the resilience of these networks to either random or targeted deletion of network nodes or links. Such deletions include, for example, the failure of Internet routers or power transmission. Biological robustness, robustness is a ubiquitously observed property of biological systems. It is considered to be a fundamental feature of complex evolvable systems. It is attained by several underlying principles that are universal to both biological organisms and sophisticated engineering. Incentives build robustness in BitTorrent, the BitTorrent file distribution system uses tit-fortat as a method of seeking pareto efficiency. It achieves a higher level of robustness and resource utilization than any currently known cooperative technique. We explain what BitTorrent does, and how economic methods. Weighted least squares support vector machines: robustness and sparse approximation, least squares support vector machines (LS-SVM) is an SVM version which involves equality instead of inequality constraints and works with a least squares cost function. In this way, the solution follows from a linear Karush-Kuhn-Tucker system instead of a quadratic. New tools for robustness of linear systems, 11. BOOK DESCRIPTION The book is written in 19 short, concise, chapters. Chapter 1 reviews the mathematical background needed in the first 15 chapters, which is basically a solid undergraduate knowledge of matrix theory and linear algebra. Some elements. Structured semidefinite programs and semialgebraic geometry methods in robustness and optimization, in the first part of this thesis, we introduce a specific class of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI) whose optimal solution can be characterized exactly. This family corresponds to the case where the associated linear operator maps the cone of positive semidefinite matrices onto. The price of robustness, a robust approach to solving linear optimization problems with uncertain data was proposed in the early 1970s and has recently been extensively studied and extended. Under this approach, we are willing to accept a suboptimal solution for the nominal values of the data. On the robustness of ultra-wide bandwidth signals in dense multipath environments, the results of an ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) signal propagation experiment, using bandwidth in excess of 1 GHz, performed in a typical modern office building are presented. The robustness of the UWB signal in multipath is quantified through cumulative distribution. Robustness, scalability, and integration of a wound-response gene expression signature in predicting breast cancer survival, based on the hypothesis that features of the molecular program of normal wound healing might play an important role in cancer metastasis, we previously identified consistent features in the transcriptional response of normal fibroblasts to serum, and used this wound.