Feedback system design with an uncertain plant

A method is developed to design a fixed-parameter compensator for a linear, time-invariant, SISO (single-input single-output) plant model characterized by significant structured, as well as unstructured, uncertainty. The controller minimizes the H(infinity) norm of the worst-case sensitivity function over the operating band and the resulting feedback system exhibits robust stability and robust performance. It is conjectured that such a robust nonadaptive control design technique can be used on-line in an adaptive control system

Sports building in Bystřice pod Hostýnem

Předmětem této bakalářské práce je návrh a statické posouzení nosné konstrukce Sportovní haly v Bystřici pod Hostýnem. Hlavní nosný systém haly o půdorysných rozměrech 28 x 43,4 m je tvořen ocelovými rámy z válcovaných profilů. Pro účely globální analýzy konstrukce a dimenzování prvků byl vytvořen prostorový model v softwaru Scia Engineer 2010. Výsledky získané z výpočetního modelu byly ověřeny ručním výpočtem některých dílčích prvků konstrukce.The aim of this bachelor´s thesis is to design and statically examine a bearing structure of sports building in Bystřice pod Hostýnem. The core bearing structure with ground area measuring 28 x 43,4 m consists of steel frames from rolled sections. Scia Engineer 2010 software has been used to create a three-dimensional model for the purpose of dimensioning each member and global analysis. Results obtained from the computer analysis were double-checked with a hand calculation of a few subelements

Untergang und Auferstehung in den literarischen Werken von Ingeborg Bachmann und Sa'dī Yūsuf

„Die Lose ähneln sich, die Odysseen“. Dieser Vers Ingeborg Bachmanns aus ihrem Gedicht Von einem Land, einem Fluss und den Seen behauptet, die Irrfahrten und Schicksale der vielen Odysseus-Gestalten seien einander ähnlich. Wenn sich aber die Schicksale und Heimkehrreisen der Umherwandernden ähneln, dann könnten sich auch ihre literarischen Werke ähnlich sein. Ausgehend von dieser Vermutung sollen im folgenden Beitrag zwei große Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts gegenübergestellt werden, die sich mit der Frage des Exils und seiner Überwindung beschäftigt haben: die Österreicherin Ingeborg Bachmann und der Iraker Sa'dī Yūsuf. Zwar gehören beide unterschiedlichen Sprachräumen und Literaturtraditionen an. Zugleich sind sie aber aus diesen Räumen ausgebrochen, um neue geografische, sprachliche und gedankliche (W)orte zu erkunden, die keine fest umrissenen Grenzen mehr kennen. Darüber hinaus haben sie in ihren Texten auf ähnliche Weise Untergänge und Auferstehungen inszeniert, die meines Erachtens den Erfahrungen ihres Exils entspringen. Ihre Sichtweisen auf das Eigene und Fremde fordern uns auf, unseren eigenen Blick in einer Zeit zunehmenden und zugleich konfliktreicheren Zusammenlebens zu öffnen und zu hinterfragen

NAVIGATING THROUGH THE WATERSHED Explaining Georgia’s and Moldova’s Foreign Policy from the Lens of Neoclassical Realism

The EU candidate countries and post-Soviet states, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova, are in a watershed era. They navigate the international landscape that emerged on the day of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine – in a world where the old order has died, and the new order has not yet been born. The turning point goes straight into their geographical position in the borderlands between the EU and Russia. This thesis examines why Georgia and the Republic of Moldova have adopted different foreign policy strategies since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It reveals that Georgia, once a leading EU partner, is now pursuing a multi-vector foreign policy, while Moldova seeks shelter-seeking towards the EU while maintaining military neutrality. The study addresses two research gaps by explaining these divergent policies and testing neoclassical realism through a comparative case study using Most Similar Systems Design. The neoclassical realist framework is refined by combining leader perceptions and strategic culture with factors from Cantir & Kennedy’s (2015) multi-level framework: power disparity, intensity of external threat, permissiveness of the external environment, intensity of threat to elite survival, and permissiveness of the internal environment. Using a mixed-methods approach, including elite interviews and text analysis, findings confirm that international systemic incentives shape foreign policy options, while domestic factors modify the actual choices. Thus, this thesis provides new insights into how external and internal factors explain the foreign policy differences of small states in similar geopolitical contexts

Georgia\u27s New Evidence Code - An Overview

On May 3, 2011, Governor Nathan Deal signed into law House Bill 24 (HB 24) bringing a new set of evidence rules to the State of Georgia. The new rules went into effect on January 1, 2013. The author of this article was the Reporter for the State Bar Evidence Study Committee when new rules were first proposed back in the mid-1980s, and again throughout the recent, successful effort to reform the rules. Part I of this article will give a brief history of the twenty-six-year effort to bring new evidence rules to Georgia. Part II will provide a structural overview of the new rules. Part III will then describe thirty-eight significant changes that judges and trial lawyers will find in the new rules. Finally, Part IV will mention a few evidentiary issues that still need attention