The author’s realizations of Alvin Lucier’s “I am sitting in a room” and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I are considered as case studies in the realization of live electroacoustic music. The new realizations, while faithful to the works’ scores, differed from the composers’ traditions of performance. Lucier’s piece was realized in real-time, a new set of implements and playing techniques w...

To support the adoption of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) in industrial practice, this article aims at improving both understanding and implementation ADRC using traditional means, particular via transfer functions a frequency-domain view. Firstly, to enable an immediate comparability with existing classical solutions, realizable function continous-time linear is introduced. Second...

conclusions our method provided good results and performing evacuation under the guide of bedside ultrasonography is recommended. results we treated 173 patients, including 164 females (94.8%), with the mean (sd) age of 43.75 (10.62) years. according to vas, 95.4% of patients reported complete satisfaction while 2 (1.2%) were unsatisfied with the results. patients reported no complication of th...

We investigate a route exploration problem with N agents dropped randomly on the interval [0,b] and discuss the impact of using multiple agents to perform this task. We consider both a discrete and a continous description of the path to explore. Independantly, we study an exploration problem with probabilistic agents having limited autonomy. In both problems , multi-agent scenarios are discusse...

This work presents the design of a reliable decentralized state feedback control for a class of uncertain interconnected polytopic continous systems. A model of failures in actuators is adopted which considers outages or partial degradation in independent actuators. The control is developed using the concept of guaranteed cost control and a new LMI characterization using polytopic Lyapunov func...

We study the firstand second-order regularity properties of the boundary of H-convex sets in the setting of a real vector space endowed with a suitable group structure: our starting point is indeed a step two Carnot group. We prove that, locally, the noncharacteristic part of the boundary has the intrinsic cone property and that it is foliated by intrinsic Lipschitz continous curves that are tw...

A patient with CD20(+) leukaemic lymphoplasmacytic Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) presented with bilateral malignant pleural effusions. Systemic chemotherapy, repeated percutaneous drainage and bilateral continous chest tube drainage were unable to control the effusions. Rituximab was instilled in a dose-escalating manner via the chest tubes into both pleural spaces, within two weeks the effusion...