... between and 30 MHz for broadband indoor and outdoor applications In this context, regulatory framework to harmonize the coexistence between PLC systems and radio services is mandatory since the radio ... well as to minimize the influence of non-Gaussian noises [12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26] Among them, singleton type-1 fuzzy systems [12, 13, 14] are pointed out to be a good solution for ISI ... to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions and comments Special thanks are extended to Patr´cia N S Ribeiro for proofreading ı this contribution The authors are also thankful to...
... Scholarship that makes it possible for me to study for academic purpose Thanks are also given to my friends and technicians in Mechatronics and Control Lab for their support and encouragement ... behaviors or even physical damage to the systems Researchers began to focus on the control of constrained and disturbed systems after the 1960s The control of such systems has been addressed intensively ... has not been submitted for a higher degree to any other University or Institution Date Wang Chen i Acknowledgments I would like to express my sincere appreciation to my supervisor, Assoc...
... such systems is a challenging endeavor Real-time management in the form of Model Predictive Control (MPC) is one of the most popular techniques implemented for such systems due to its ability to ... information from the individual model predictive controllers at the lower level to drive the 10 2.2 Model Predictive Control and its Application plant performance towards the overall optima Information ... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my sincere thanks to my supervisor, Prof Lakshminarayanan Samavedham for being such a wonderful mentor I am greatly indebted to him for his constant guidance,...
... and Ford, 2006) Ford and Sobek (2005) applied this approach to a product development project to more fully describe Toyota’s unique product development approach to managing design risk and to ... estimate is too high; (2) desire to put pressure on staff to avoid the “gold-plating” and slacking-off phenomena noted above; (3) failure to adequately budget for the hours and time needed to perform ... effort) over the former (inadequate processes) They argue that Managers’ tendency to attribute performance shortfalls to problems with the workforce rather than the production system is reinforced...
... meaningful relations For the task of sentence extraction, the goal is to rank entire sentences, and therefore a vertex is added to the graph for each sentence in the text To establish connections ... attached to the edges connected to vertex 93 , and the final score computed for each vertex, using the PR formula, applied on an undirected graph The sentences with the highest rank are selected for ... 0.5011 Top systems (DUC, 2002) S31 S28 S21 0.4914 0.4890 0.4869 Conclusions S29 0.4681 Baseline 0.4799 Table 2: Results for single document summarization for top (out of 15) DUC 2002 systems, ...
... appealing for ambient assisted living systems [2], is that they allow to communicate with users in a natural way This is of course conditioned to the use of simple material for the system to remain ... requires to maximize the mutual information between the extracted features FA and FV In order to both decreases the lower bound on Pe and try to get as close as possible to this bound, a mutual information ... will tend to capture specifically the information related to the common origin of A and V, discarding the unrelated interference information The interested reader is referred to [8] for more details...
... sensor systems or manipulators are developed to offer autonomous or semiautonomous navigation, suitable for severely disabled users The MOVAID, [28], project and the Nursery Robot System for the ... to the left Sustained command to make the robot turning to user’s left Turn to the right Sustained command to make the robot turning to user’s right Exit SLAM stops and a map is visualized i ... the angular velocity of the mobile robot, related to pronation (turn to left) and supination (turn to right) is assigned to the signal of pronator teres and biceps brachii muscles The classification...
... inequalities for Green’s operator proved in this paper can be used to estimate other operators appliedto a k-quasi-minimizer Here, we give an example using Theorem 2.3 to estimate the projection operator ... (4:2) 2B for all balls B = Br with radius r and 2B ⊂ Ω, where c is any closed form Now, we are ready to develop the estimate for the projection operator appliedto a kquasi-minimizer for the functional ... properties of functions Princton University Press, Princton (1970) Ding, S: Integral estimates for the Laplace-Beltrami and Green’s operators appliedto differential forms on manifolds Zeitschrift...
... likely to have been appliedto patients resistant to or dependent on prednisolone) Table shows the GRADE profile obtained for the second question A meta-analysis of the data was performed for the ... Arcelay A: Leucocitoaféresis para el tratamiento de la enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal Informe de Revisión Vitoria-Gasteiz Departamento de Sanidad Gobierno Vasco 2004 Informe n° Osteba IR-04-03 ... 1.22 (0.9 to 1.36) - - OR 0.21 (0.04 to 1.02) - RR 1.31 (0.93 to 1.83) - OR 1.85 (0.46 to 7.52) 153 more per 1000 (from 70 fewer to 251 more) - - 275 fewer per 1000 (from 350 fewer to more) -...
... the curve indicators (for example, Hyperglycaemic Index [HGI] [7]) Here, however, a typically linear relation between observations is assumed (in order to achieve an approximation to the true, nonlinear ... availability of near-continuous glucose monitoring devices, we advise clinicians to compute both HGI and GPI (per patient), because these indicators compensate for each other’s weaknesses Next, population ... Government Page of (page number not for citation purposes) References Eslami S, de Keizer NF, de Jonge E, Schultz MJ, Abu-Hanna A: A systematic review on quality indicators for tight glycaemic control...
... could be used for studies and evaluations for genetic tolerance to high heat The model allows the identification of not only those individuals in the population that are less sensitive to temperature ... partitioned into environmental and genetic components, both for the threshold and the intensity of sensitivity to heat stress This makes it possible to identify genetically superior individuals for a ... the same used for fitting the effect of instantaneous THI on milk production [2] However it is relatively straight forward to consider more complex functions, for example, those used for stud- Page...
... Sets for PWLBD Systems Disturbance invariant sets play an important role for the controller design for LBD systems The same is true for PWLBD systems They are needed in characterizing the asymptotic ... 93 6.4 Model Predictive Control for Constrained PWLBD Systems Summary 95 Model Predictive Control for Nonlinear Systems via Support Vector Machine 97 7.1 ... Therefore, F∞ may be regarded as the ‘origin’ for system (2.31) Except for some special cases [41, 60], there is no method for the exact computation of F∞ for LBD systems In the literature, efforts...
... geothermal) and therefore require the use of suitable technologies for energy storage The needs for advanced energy storage systems has kept growing significantly each year for the past decade ... cases, trials were done to coat electrodes with these formulations on the pilot producing line at the CEA, which led to some evolutions in the composition of the formulations for further production ... batteries 1.1 Brief historical development of battery systems Batteries are energy storage systems that convert chemical energy stored in electrodes to electrical energy via electrochemical reduction-oxidation...
... Technology, Vietnam for their intensive leading and kind help to study at Gadjah Mada University and Kyoto University A deep thanks goes to Mr Dany and Mr.Sito, my very good collaborators, for their useful ... also due to Dissertation Examination Committee for their comments and suggestions I would like to show my sincere thanks to all my teachers since my younger age up to now for their guidance to upgrade ... Creep is the term used to describe the tendency of a material to move or to deform permanently to relieve stresses Material deformation occurs as a result of long term exposure to levels of stress...
... herds At the farm level, the veterinarians seemed to integrate farm-related information into the decision as to how to treat an individual cow for metritis When taking decisions on this level, ... rules for mandatory systematic data collection This agreement gives the farmer a more liberal access to antibiotics The intention behind this legislation probably was to motivate the farmer to enhance ... medical records can be applied in the dairy sector in many ways and for many reasons In the following we will discuss the consequences of variation and bias in relation to monitoring of animal disease...
... application doses How to perform this is exemplarily shown here by targeting and controlling breast cancer cells Our considerations to overcome these resistance-inducing factors led to the application ... a delivery platform for targeting with TMZ in order to realize high local TMZ concentrations at the MCF-7 and HeLa cell’s surfaces and, after uptake into the cells sufficient for cell killing ... 76899)] was subdivided into two parts for subsequent processing One part was kept underivatized for the following experiment and the second part, after chemical transformation to the cor- responding...
... presented to their physicians for evaluation Physicians used tools commonly at their disposal, including the available stress ECG modalities, to decide whether to refer the patient for coronary ... Lumpur, Malaysia had to be excluded from the study because angiograms were not made available for US external review due to unforeseen legal limitations Moreover, during the study a total of 84 patients ... Positive and negative predictive values (PPV, NPV) for the assessment of coronary stenosis were calculated with adjustment to prevalence of stenosis [23] Moreover, to assess the performance of the...
... skimming are to check relevance of the text and to set the scene for more concentrated effort that is to follow if the text is useful 11 To sum up, skimming is a very useful reading skill for students, ... when they read They have to learn how to carry on a dialogue with the text The last thing for them to is learning not to cheat oneself, students who not want to learn to read can easily cheat, ... up 15 minutes to exploit them First of all, she introduced the topic of the reading text Then, she divided students into groups to brainstorm the words or ideas related to the topic of the lesson...
... pre- reading phrase tries to is: To introduce and arouse interest in the topic To motivate learners by giving a reason for reading 14 To provide some language preparation for the text” In general ... reading (for example, reading for general ideas, reading for specific information, and reading for further understanding) with clear instructions for various kinds of activities according to each ... questions, to look for topic sentences, match the headings or find out paragraph topics for each paragraph in the text In reading some texts another task is to complete the summary 3.2 Reading for specific...