External bonding of carbon fiber sheets has become a popular technique for strengthening concrete structures all over the world. Epoxy adhesive, which is used to bond the carbon fiber sheets and concrete, deteriorates rapidly when being exposed to high temperatures. This paper presents a high-temperature-resistant modified magnesia-phosphate cement (MPC) with the compressive strength that does ...

An artificial pancreatic β-cell based on multipartite zone model predictive control (Multi-Zone-MPC) is evaluated on the UVa FDA-accepted metabolic simulator. Multi-Zone-MPC provides different tunings for the MPC weights based on four regions of glycemia: hypoglycemia, normoglycemia, elevated glycemia, and hyperglycemia. Defining these four zones provides richer control tunings that result in s...

This paper proposes an MPC - based (model predictive control) scheme to control active and reactive powers of DERs (distributed energy resources) in a grid - connected mode (either through a bus with its associated loads as a PCC (point of common coupling) or an MG (micro - grid)). DER may be a DG (distributed generation) or an ESS (energy storage system). In the proposed scheme, the set - poin...

Atrophy of skeletal muscle leads to decreases in myofiber size and nuclear number; however, the effects of atrophic conditions on muscle precursor cells (MPC) are largely unknown. MPC lie outside myofibers and represent the main source of additional myonuclei necessary for muscle growth and repair. In the present study, we examined the properties of MPC after hindlimb suspension (HS)-induced at...

Protocols for secure multi-party computation (MPC) that resist a dishonest majority are susceptible to “denial of service” attacks, allowing even a single malicious party to force the protocol to abort. In this work, we initiate a systematic study of the more robust notion of security with identifiable abort, which leverages the effect of an abort by forcing, upon abort, at least one malicious ...

I compare the density profile of dark matter (DM) halos in cold dark matter (CDM) N-body simulations with 1 h Mpc, 32 h Mpc, 256 h Mpc and 1024 h Mpc box sizes. I compare the profiles when the most massive halos are composed of about 10 DM particles. The DM density profiles of the halos in the 1 h Mpc box at redshift z ∼ 10 show systematically shallower cores with respect to the corresponding h...

BACKGROUND Development of an artificial pancreas based on an automatic closed-loop algorithm that uses a subcutaneous insulin pump and continuous glucose sensor is a goal for biomedical engineering research. However, closing the loop for the artificial pancreas still presents many challenges, including model identification and design of a control algorithm that will keep the type 1 diabetes mel...

Modellbasierte prädiktive Regelungen (MPC) haben sich in der Prozessindustrie zur StandardTechnologie für die Lösung anspruchsvoller Mehrgrößen-Regelungsaufgaben entwickelt. Der vorliegende Beitrag erläutert Grundlagen, Anwendungseigenschaften und Ursachen für den industriellen Erfolg von MPC, gibt eine Übersicht über Aufbau und Funktionen kommerziell verfügbarer MPC-Programmsysteme und zeigt a...