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Why and How Businesses Use Planned Early Dispute Resolution
This article reports the results of an empirical inquiry analyzing why some businesses do think and act differently by adopting planned early dispute resolution (PEDR) systems when most other businesses probably do not do so. PEDR is a general approach designed to enable parties and their lawyers to resolve disputes favorably and with reduced cost as early as reasonably possible. It involves strategic planning for preventing conflict and handling disputes in the early stages of conflict, rather than dealing with disputes ad hoc as they arise. There is no general understanding of what PEDR is since businesses use a variety of PEDR procedures, as described below.3 Thus, it is impossible to estimate accurately the proportion of businesses that use a PEDR system. But our sense is that a relatively small proportion of businesses consistently and systematically uses PEDR processes
Why and How Businesses Use Planned Early Dispute Resolution
This article reports the results of an empirical inquiry analyzing why some businesses do think and act differently by adopting planned early dispute resolution (PEDR) systems when most other businesses probably do not do so. PEDR is a general approach designed to enable parties and their lawyers to resolve disputes favorably and with reduced cost as early as reasonably possible. It involves strategic planning for preventing conflict and handling disputes in the early stages of conflict, rather than dealing with disputes ad hoc as they arise. There is no general understanding of what PEDR is since businesses use a variety of PEDR procedures, as described below.3 Thus, it is impossible to estimate accurately the proportion of businesses that use a PEDR system. But our sense is that a relatively small proportion of businesses consistently and systematically uses PEDR processes
Capabilities of Earth-based radar facilities for near-Earth asteroid observations
We evaluated the planetary radar capabilities at Arecibo, the Goldstone 70-m
DSS-14 and 34-m DSS-13 antennas, the 70-m DSS-43 antenna at Canberra, the Green
Bank Telescope, and the Parkes Radio Telescope in terms of their relative
sensitivities and the number of known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) detectable
per year in monostatic and bistatic configurations. In the 2015 calendar year,
monostatic observations with Arecibo and DSS-14 were capable of detecting 253
and 131 NEAs respectively, with signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) greater than
30/track. Combined, the two observatories were capable of detecting 276 NEAs.
Of these, Arecibo detected 77 and Goldstone detected 32, or 30% and 24% the
numbers that were possible. The two observatories detected an additional 18 and
7 NEAs respectively, with SNRs of less than 30/track. This indicates that a
substantial number of potential targets are not being observed. The bistatic
configuration with DSS-14 transmitting and the Green Bank Telescope receiving
was capable of detecting about 195 NEAs, or ~50% more than with monostatic
observations at DSS-14. Most of the detectable asteroids were targets of
opportunity that were discovered less than 15 days before the end of their
observing windows. About 50% of the detectable asteroids have absolute
magnitudes > 25, which corresponds diameters < ~30 m.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, Accepted to A
A unifying framework for tangential interpolation of structured bilinear control systems
In this paper, we consider the structure-preserving model order reduction
problem for multi-input/multi-output bilinear control systems by tangential
interpolation. We propose a new type of tangential interpolation problem for
structured bilinear systems, for which we develop a new structure-preserving
interpolation framework. This new framework extends and generalizes different
formulations of tangential interpolation for bilinear systems from the
literature and also provides a unifying framework. We then derive explicit
conditions on the projection spaces to enforce tangential interpolation in
different settings, including conditions for tangential Hermite interpolation.
The analysis is illustrated by means of three numerical examples.Comment: 33 pages, 9 figure
O-MOORE-NICE!: new methodologies and algorithms for design and simulation of analog integrated circuits
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A low-rank solution method for Riccati equations with indefinite quadratic terms
Algebraic Riccati equations with indefinite quadratic terms play an important
role in applications related to robust controller design. While there are many
established approaches to solve these in case of small-scale dense
coefficients, there is no approach available to compute solutions in the
large-scale sparse setting. In this paper, we develop an iterative method to
compute low-rank approximations of stabilizing solutions of large-scale sparse
continuous-time algebraic Riccati equations with indefinite quadratic terms. We
test the developed approach for dense examples in comparison to other
established matrix equation solvers, and investigate the applicability and
performance in large-scale sparse examples.Comment: 19 pages, 2 figures, 5 table
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