Table of contents

The following topics are dealt with: stabilization of modulated phases in the presence of long range interactions; entropy production of a Rayleigh piston separating gases of different temperature; a signal processing method; a modified mathematical model for malaria transmission under control strategy; a new mathematical model for co-infection of malaria and HIV; identification of turning and milling processes by stochastic Langevin equations; gender classification using Bayesian classifier with local binary patch features; the NSCD method to analyze the dynamics of ancient masonry churches under seismic loadings; a damping device based on bistable springs; impact dynamics of a constrained mass-spring-damper system; through the looking-glass of the grazing bifurcation; nonlinear mathematical models of Costas loop for general waveform of input signal; bifurcation approach to analysis of chaotic dynamics in Hamiltonian and conservative systems; privatization and government preference in a public Stackelberg leader duopoly; a generalized projective synchronization of two different gyroscopes; nonlinear oscillations of an elastic inverted pendulum; chaotic solutions of a differential equation with piecewise linearity; chaos and transient chaos in a simple oscillator with Coulomb friction law; a simple model for pedestrian induced lateral oscillations of bridges; entropy analysis of the genetic sequence of six species; positivity of fractional discrete systems with sequential h-differences; time-fractional boundary optimal control of thermal stresses; fractional Hamiltonian analysis of systems with linear velocities within Hilfer derivatives; conservation laws for a family of Benjamin-Bona-Mahony-Burgers equations; selected nonlinear effects in hot laser plasmas generated by high intensity lasers; control of chaotic responses of a laminated composite beam subjected to external excitation; analytical vigrations of a rotating blade with geometric nonlinearity; nonlinear - elf-adjointness and conservation laws for a third order equation; saddle-node bifurcations in Burgers equation as shock wave occurrence; stable and unstable periodic solutions to the Mathieu-Duffing oscillator; complete bifurcation analysis of pendulum vibration absorber and rare attractors; chaos formation and reduction in robust fixed point transformations based adaptive control; rare periodic and chaotic attractors and typical bifurcation groups in driven double-well and many-well potential oscillatory systems; rare attractors in typical nonlinear discrete dynamical models; and lastly, the software package dependency networks of some Linux distributions.