BACKGROUND Rapid reach-to-grasp reactions are a prevalent response to sudden loss of balance and play an important role in preventing falls. A previous study indicated that young adults are able to guide functionally effective grasping reactions using visuospatial information (VSI) stored in working memory. The present study addressed whether healthy older adults are also able to use "stored" V...

The performance of an X-bar chart is usually studied under the assumption that the process standard deviation is well estimated and does not change. This is, of course, not always the case in practice and X-bar charts are not robust against errors in estimating the process standard deviation or changing standard deviation. In this paper, the use of an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA...

Despite improving various technical indices such as operation and voltage profile, the integration of synchronous distributed generations (SDGs) may lead to loss protection coordination in distribution network (DN). To tackle problem, this paper presents a multi-objective siting sizing SDGs on DN considering operation, economic simultaneously. The proposed scheme is structured framework four-ob...

Usually, in monitoring schemes the nominal value of the process parameter is assumed known. However, this assumption is violated owing to costly sampling and lack of data particularly in healthcare systems. On the other hand, applying a fixed control limit for the risk-adjusted Bernoulli chart causes to a variable in-control average run length performance for patient populations with dissimilar...

This paper discusses the designs of Generalized Predictive Control (GPC) scheme. GPC is designed in two cases; the first is a multirate system, where the sampling interval of a plant output is an integer multiple of the holding interval of a control input, and the second is a fast-rate single-rate system, where both the holding and sampling intervals are equivalent to the holding interval of th...