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Elder et al. (Elder et al., 1984) used Stevens’s power law to examine the relationships between subjectively measured softness and a compression and also between subjective stiffness and a flexural rigidity. Excellent correlation was found, correlation coefficients for the Steve[r]

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The theory of switched systems concerns hybrid dynamical systems composed of a family of continuous–time subsystems and a switching law, orchestrating switching between these subsystems. Systems of this class have been identied in many natural[r]

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