Perioperative practice: time to throttle back.

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Robust ℋ2 static output feedback to control an automotive throttle valve

The paper presents a control strategy for an automotive electronic throttle body, a device largely used into vehicles to increase the efficiency of the combustion engines. The synthesis of the proposed controller is based on a linear matrix inequality (LMI) formulation, which allows us to deal with uncertainties on the measurements of the position of the throttle valve. The LMI approach generat...

Preoperative Patient Assessment Practices: A Survey of Kenyan Perioperative Nurses

Background: Patients undergoing surgery are at risk of developing complications related to surgery and anesthesia amidst heightened anxiety. The key roles played by perioperative nurses in surgery, mandate them to conduct preoperative patient assessment to identify and mitigate potential complications and to plan and deliver quality perioperative care. However, paucity of literature evidencing ...

Throttle and Preempt: A New Flow Control for Real-Time Communications in Wormhole Networks

In this papel; we study wormhole routed networks and their suitability for real-time trafic in a priority-driven paradigm. A traditional blocking $ow control in wormhole routing may lead to a priority inversion in the sense that high priority packets are blocked by low priority packets for unlimited time. This uncontrolled priority inversion causes the frequent deadline missing. This paper ther...

Asymmetric Modelling and Control of an Electronic Throttle

This paper presents an improved model for an automotive electronic throttle inspired on the behavior observed in real-time experiments. Due to a number of issues, particularly the return-spring, the performance of the throttle valve depends on whether it is opening or closing. This asymmetric behavior was taken into account to design a mathematical model of the throttle body and to derive a non...