Overview material for the Special Session (Tuning Fuzzy Controllers Using Adaptive Critic Based Approximate Dynamic Programming) is provided. The Dual Heuristic Programming (DHP) method of Approximate Dynamic Programming is described and used to the design a fuzzy control system. DHP and related techniques have been developed in the neurocontrol context but can be equally productive when used w...

the pain anxiety symptoms scale (pass-20) has been developed as a general measure of anxiety and fear in individuals with various chronic pain disorders by mccracken and dhingra (2002). short-form scale of pass-20 has been extracted from 40 items of dass which published in 1992. this study aimed (1) to examine the factor structure of a persian language version of the pass-20 (irpass-20); (2) to...

Hydration is recommended in order to decrease the overload on the cardiovascular system when healthy individuals exercise, mainly in the heat. To date, no criteria have been established for hydration for hypertensive (HY) individuals during exercise in a hot environment. Eight male HY volunteers without another medical problem and 8 normal (NO) subjects (46 +/- 3 and 48 +/- 1 years; 78.8 +/- 2....

Effects of the menstrual cycle on heat loss and heat production (M) and core and skin temperature responses to cold were studied in six unacclimatized female nonsmokers (18-29 yr of age). Each woman, resting supine, was exposed to a cold transient (ambient temperature = mean radiant temperature = 20 to -5 degrees C at -0.32 degrees C/min, relative humidity = 50 +/- 2%, wind speed = 1 m/s) in th...

This report describes a procedure by which high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) techniques are used to obtain homogeneous S-antigen. Conventionally prepared S-antigen was purified further by fractionation on the anion exchange Mono-Q column followed by gel filtration on a TSK-3000 column. This procedure produced an S-antigen preparation, which appeared homogeneous by gel electrophores...

This paper proposes a recurrent TSK-type neuro-fuzzy controller (TNFC) with reinforcement hybrid evolutionary learning algorithm (R-HELA). The proposed R-HELA combines the compact genetic algorithm (CGA) and the modified variable-length genetic algorithm (MVGA) to perform the structure/parameter learning for constructing the TNFC dynamically. The evolution of a population consists of three majo...

This report describes a procedure by which high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) techniques are used to obtain homogeneous S-antigen. Conventionally prepared S-antigen was purified further by fractionation on the anion exchange Mono-Q column followed by gel filtration on a TSK-3000 column. This procedure produced an S-antigen preparation, which appeared homogeneous by gel electrophores...

This paper presents the application of Parallel Genetic Algorithm (PGA)-based Takagi Sugeno Kang (TSK)-Fuzzy approach for dynamic car-following modeling in the traffic simulation software. It differs from the usual car-following model significantly as the proposed model provides a more dynamic car movement and realistic headway by considering the driver progressive level factor. These two advan...

BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate the oral carbohydrate solution administered preoperatively on thermoregulation. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 40 female patients under general anesthesia. Patients were randomly divided into 2 groups: Group CONT (stopped oral implementation 8 h before the operation) and Group CHO (800ml oral carbohydrate fluid 8 h before the operation and 400ml ora...

ABSTRACT: This article presents a rule-based fuzzy model for the identification of nonlinear MISO (multiple input, single output) systems. The presented method of fuzzy modeling consists of two parts: (1) structure modeling, i.e., the determination of the number of rules and input variables involved respectively, and (2) parameter optimization, i.e., the optimization of the location and form of...