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Matthew Ubl, Matthew Hale
Distributed nonconvex optimization problems underlie many applications in learning and autonomy, and such problems commonly face asynchrony in agents' computations and communications. When delays in these operations are bounded, they are called partially asynchronous. In this paper, we present an uncoordinated stepsize…
Tie Ding, Shanying Zhu, Cailian Chen, Xinping Guan
—This paper studies distributed resource allocation problem in multi-agent systems, where all the agents cooperatively minimize the sum of their cost functions with global resource constraints over stochastic communication networks. This problem arises from many practical domains such as economic dispatch in smart…
Yongqiang Wang, Angelia Nedić
—Decentralized optimization enables a network of agents to cooperatively optimize an overall objective function without a central coordinator and is gaining increased attention in domains as diverse as control, sensor networks, data mining, and robotics. However, the information sharing among agents in decentralized…
Liping Feng, Liang Ran, Guoyang Meng, Jialong Tang + 3 more
'Huaqing Li' 'Shu-Chuan Chu'] In this paper, we focus on the nonsmooth composite optimization problems over networks, which consist of a smooth term and a nonsmooth term. Both equality constraints and box constraints for the decision variables are also considered. Based on the multi-agent networks, the objective…
Leslie M. Theunissen, Volker Dürr, Holger G Krapp
Background Adaptive, context-dependent control of locomotion requires modulation of centrally generated rhythmic motor patterns through peripheral control loops and postural reflexes. Thus assuming that the modulation of rhythmic motor patterns accounts for much of the behavioural variability observed in legged…
Tomonobu M. Watanabe, Atsuko H. Iwane, Hiroto Tanaka, Mitsuo Ikebe + 2 more
Class V myosin (myosin-V) is a cargo transporter that moves along an actin filament with large (∼36-nm) successive steps. It consists of two heads that each includes a motor domain and a long (23 nm) neck domain. One of the more popular models describing these steps, the hand-over-hand model, assumes the two-headed…
Omar Khan, Imran Ahmed, Joshua Cottingham, Musa Rahhal + 2 more
'Theodoros N. Arvanitis' 'Mark Elliott'] The effectiveness of simple sensory cues for retraining gait have been demonstrated, yet the feasibility of humanoid avatars for entrainment have yet to be investigated. Here, we describe the development of a novel method of visually cued training, in the form of a virtual…
Astrid Boström, Anna Gavrilova, Gino B. Poulin, Victoria J. Allan
The microtubule motor kinesin-1 is vital in neurons, with mutations being associated with neurological diseases. Deletion of the Caenorhabditis elegans kinesin-1 gene unc-116 is lethal, and viable mutants are uncoordinated. Here, we use auxin-mediated degradation to deplete UNC-116 protein at different developmental…
Peiyuan Wang, Jianjun Zhou, Risheng Wang, Jie Chen
Variable stepsize methods are effective for various modified CQ algorithms to solve the split feasibility problem (SFP). The purpose of this paper is first to introduce two new simpler variable stepsizes of the CQ algorithm. Then two new generalized variable stepsizes which can cover the former ones are also proposed…
Tom Beneke, François Demay, Edward Hookway, Nicole Ashman + 11 more
The protozoan parasite Leishmania possesses a single flagellum, which is remodelled during the parasite’s life cycle from a long motile flagellum in promastigote forms in the sand fly to a short immotile flagellum in amastigotes residing in mammalian phagocytes. This study examined the protein composition and in vivo…
Takenori Tomaru, Yuta Nishiyama, Claudio Feliciani, Hisashi Murakami
Similar to other animal groups, human crowds exhibit a variety of self-organized collective behaviors. Spontaneous formation of unidirectional lanes in bidirectional pedestrian flows is one of the most striking examples of self-organization in human crowds. In addition, previous experimental studies have suggested that…
Andry Andrianarivelo, Heike Stein, Jeremy Gabillet, Clarisse Batifol + 3 more
Locomotion in complex environments depends on the precise timing and active control of single paw movements in order to adapt steps to surface structure and coordinate paws. Such motor control crucially depends on the cerebellum, which is thought to support moment-to-moment prediction and correction of paw…