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Joyal's Suspension Functor on and Kan's Combinatorial Spectra
In [Joyal] where the category is first defined it is noted that the
dimensional shift on suggests an elegant presentation of the unreduced
suspension on cellular sets. In this note we prove that the reduced suspension
associated to that presentation is left Quillen with respect to the Cisinski
model category structure presenting the -category of
pointed spaces and enjoys the correct universal property. More, we go on to
describe how, in forthcoming work, inspired by the combinatorial spectra
described in [Kan], this suspension functor entails a description of spectra
which echoes the weaker form of the homotopy hypothesis, we describe the
development of a presentation of spectra as locally finite weak
-groupoids
Optimal Decentralized State-Feedback Control with Sparsity and Delays
This work presents the solution to a class of decentralized linear quadratic
state-feedback control problems, in which the plant and controller must satisfy
the same combination of delay and sparsity constraints. Using a novel
decomposition of the noise history, the control problem is split into
independent subproblems that are solved using dynamic programming. The approach
presented herein both unifies and generalizes many existing results
Breast Self-Examination Teaching for Women in Chemical Dependency Programs
Fifty-two women from 5 chemical dependency programs participated in a 1 hour health education program teaching breast self-examination using breast models. Tactile skills and general information about breast cancer and breast self-examination were presented. The program was evaluated for its ability to teach this high risk population. Nine true/false questions and lump detection skills were evaluated using_a pretest/posttest non-experimental design. A level of significance for the true/false questions was set at .01, and for lump detection skills it was set at .05. Dependent t tests was used to statistically analyze the data. Participants improved their general knowledge about breast cancer and self-examination as a result of this program (p \u3c.01). Lump detection skills also improved (p \u3c.05). This study indicates health education programs are of value and can potentially decrease the survival discrepancy for breast cancer for a specific high risk population
Optimal Control for LQG Systems on Graphs---Part I: Structural Results
In this two-part paper, we identify a broad class of decentralized
output-feedback LQG systems for which the optimal control strategies have a
simple intuitive estimation structure and can be computed efficiently. Roughly,
we consider the class of systems for which the coupling of dynamics among
subsystems and the inter-controller communication is characterized by the same
directed graph. Furthermore, this graph is assumed to be a multitree, that is,
its transitive reduction can have at most one directed path connecting each
pair of nodes. In this first part, we derive sufficient statistics that may be
used to aggregate each controller's growing available information. Each
controller must estimate the states of the subsystems that it affects (its
descendants) as well as the subsystems that it observes (its ancestors). The
optimal control action for a controller is a linear function of the estimate it
computes as well as the estimates computed by all of its ancestors. Moreover,
these state estimates may be updated recursively, much like a Kalman filter
Optimal Control of Two-Player Systems with Output Feedback
In this article, we consider a fundamental decentralized optimal control
problem, which we call the two-player problem. Two subsystems are
interconnected in a nested information pattern, and output feedback controllers
must be designed for each subsystem. Several special cases of this architecture
have previously been solved, such as the state-feedback case or the case where
the dynamics of both systems are decoupled. In this paper, we present a
detailed solution to the general case. The structure of the optimal
decentralized controller is reminiscent of that of the optimal centralized
controller; each player must estimate the state of the system given their
available information and apply static control policies to these estimates to
compute the optimal controller. The previously solved cases benefit from a
separation between estimation and control which allows one to compute the
control and estimation gains separately. This feature is not present in
general, and some of the gains must be solved for simultaneously. We show that
computing the required coupled estimation and control gains amounts to solving
a small system of linear equations
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