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The antimicrobial activities of colistin and other antibiotics against clinical Acinetobacter baumannii and the mutant prevention concentration (MPC) of colistin against multidrug-resistant A. baumannii were studied. All 70 stains tested were sensitive to colistin. The MPC range of colistin against 30 multidrug-resistant A. baumannii stains was approximately 32 to >128 microg/ml, and the MPC at...

Control of drinking water networks is an arduous task given their size and the presence of uncertainty in water demand. It is necessary to impose different constraints for ensuring a reliable water supply in the most economic and safe ways. To cope with uncertainty in system disturbances due to the stochastic water demand/consumption, and optimize operational costs, this paper proposes three st...

mpC is a medium-level parallel language for programming heterogeneous networks of computers. It allows to write libraries of parallel routines adaptable to peculiarities of any particular executing mul-tiprocessor system to ensure eecient running. The adaptable routines distribute data and computations in accordance with performances of participating processors. In this case even the problems t...

This paper presents a MPC (Model Predictive Control) algorithm for MEMS vibratory gyroscopes based on force-balancing control strategy. In the proposed MPC method, using a set of orthonormal basis functions named Laguerre functions, a new prediction and optimization technique is designed. To enhance the capability of proposed MPC method for tracking time-varying reference trajectories, first a ...

The feasibility of model predictive control (MPC) applied to a laboratory gas turbine installation is investigated. MPC explicitly incorporates (input and output) constraints in its optimizations, which explains the choice for this computationally demanding control strategy. Strong nonlinearities, displayed by the gas turbine installation, cannot always be handled adequately by standard linear ...

Data model, planning restrictions, and objectives related to manufacturing planning and control (MPC) strongly depend on the given production process and workshop. In our opinion, these individual properties are the reason, why standard software fails to properly support decisions in MPC. In this paper, we introduce a platform, which enables a configuration process to create affordable individu...

This work presents some preliminary results of a project aimed at the application of industrial Model Predictive Control (MPC) to thermal Power Plants. The rationale which motivates this research is the need to improve the efficiency of power plants to cope with the high levels of competitions induced by the liberalization of the energy market. A detailed plant simulator is coupled to an indust...