We find lag phases exceeding 20 min in measuring creatine kinase activity, by using the kinetic creatin phosphate leads to creatine assay, in sera of some patients with carcinoma metastatic to the liver. Such long lag phases are accompanied by a decreased apparent enzyme activity. These problems are eliminated by adding sulfhydryl agents to the serum before assay, but not by adding more of such...

We propose models that focus on the improvement of flexibility in manufacturing supply networks by enabling a tighter information coupling between the various planning levels without tampering with the autonomy of enterprises which are geographically distributed. The problem is approached from the perspective of social network planning using a community of agents. These agents have unique prope...

This paper deals with the consensus problem for multi-agent systems with fixed topologies. The agents are described by Lipschitz nonlinear systems. Only output information of each agent can be obtained from its neighbor agents. A distributed adaptive consensus algorithm via dynamic output feedback is proposed, in which the coupling weights between adjacent agents are time-varying and satisfy so...

in this research, the decay resistance of bagasse-polypropylene composite has been evaluated. the scope of research was to assess the effect of different weight percentages of bagasse (40, 55 and 70%) and coupling agent, (mapp) maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (0, 4 and 6%) on the fungal decay of the composite. astm d1413-99 modified test method was used to carry out the decay test, trame...

The behavior of heterogeneous multi-agent systems is studied when the coupling matrices are possibly all different and/or singular (that is, its rank is less than the system dimension). Rank-deficient coupling allows exchange of limited state information, which is suitable for study of output coupling in multi-agent systems. We present a coordinate change that transforms the heterogeneous multi...