In the bad old days, I only used constants as a way to assign names to values. Things like this, for example: Private Const DaysInWeek As Integer = 7 However, these days most of my variables are ...

Abstract: Aiming at the situation that traditional PI controllers cannot flexibly change their parameters when the converter operating point changes, this paper designs a double-loop mode variable ...

The ability to declare a variable as static for a proc etc so global variables don't have to be used and thus stored in the BSS segment affecting efficiency. Closures could be used, at the expense of ...

Abstract: Soft robotics has been a trending topic within the robotics community for almost two decades. However, available tools for the modeling and analysis of soft robots are still limited. This ...

A tendency for one or both spouses to avoid or withdraw from tough conversations could set up married couples for emotional distress, bad feelings about their relationship, chronic inflammation and ...

1 Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Siena, Italy 2 Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy Grasping and dexterous manipulation remain ...