The SPring-8 storage ring is under construction and will be commissioned in February 1997. The design for the control system of the storage ring adopted the so-called Standard Model concept. VMEbus is used as the front-end control system and is widely distributed around the 1436m circumference of the storage ring. The VMEbus is controlled by a single-board-computer with a RISC processor. The VM...

There are numerous excellent books on optimal control. Commonly used books which we will draw from are Athans and Falb [2], Berkovitz [4], Bryson and Ho [5], Pontryagin et al [6], Young [7], Kirk [8], Lewis [9] and Fleming and Rishel[10]. The history of optimal control is quite well rooted in antiquity, with allusion being made to Dido, the first Queen of Carthage, who when asked to take as muc...

Results of wellposedness and stability are presented for a partial differential equation (PDE) model which has been used to model certain biological and physical fluid-structure interactions. The coupling between the fluid and structural equations occurs across the boundary interface. A key feature in the analysis is the novel method of eliminating the associated pressure of the system. This is...

sensory qualities of the stimulus and not by its behavioral significance. We will present data from direction-selective cells in awake behaving macaque monkeys demonstrating influences of attention on the sensory properties of these cells, such as their tuning characteristics and their sensitivity and selectivity. These attentional effects are well matched to the effects of attention in psychop...

This global viewpoint is in contrast to the calculus of variations approach where we typically look at local variations of trajectories in the vicinity of a given initial path x(·) often starting from a given state x(0) = x0. The DP principle is based on the idea that once an optimal path x∗(t) for t ∈ [t0, tf ] is computed then any segment of this path is optimal, i.e. x∗(t) for t ∈ [t1, tf ] ...

We demonstrate experimentally that selective two-photon probe excitation using phase shaped pulses can be achieved even when the laser propagates through scattering tissue. The pre-optimized phase tailored femtosecond pulses were able to identify acidic and basic solutions of a pH sensitive chromophore hidden behind a slab of scattering tissue. This observation has important implications for fu...

There are numerous excellent books on optimal control. Commonly used books which we will draw from are Athans and Falb [2], Berkovitz [4], Bryson and Ho [5], Pontryagin et al [6], Young [7], Kirk [8], Lewis [9] and Fleming and Rishel[10]. The history of optimal control is quite well rooted in antiquity, with allusion being made to Dido, the first Queen of Carthage, who when asked to take as muc...

The Centre de Recherche sur les Méningites et les Schistosomes (CERMES) is a sesearch institute depending on the Organisation de Coordination et de Coopération pour la bitte contre les Grandes Endémies a West Afiicaiz Organization for Public Health devoted to the studies on schistosomiasis and meningitis. The staff includes 32 persons with I I scientists and one financial officer: The activitie...

BACKGROUND Intensive glycaemic control delays the onset and progression of diabetes-related complications, especially microvascular complications. However, only limited information is available regarding glucose-lowering treatment practices in Australian primary care. The aim of the study was to describe patterns of glycaemic control in subjects participating in the National Evaluation of the F...