Although a neural site of action for estradiol in inducing a LH surge via a surge of GnRH is now well established in sheep, the precise target(s) for estrogen within the brain is unknown. To address this issue, two experiments were conducted during the breeding season using an artificial model of the follicular phase. In the first experiment, bilateral 17beta-estradiol microimplants were positi...

This thesis contains new results in the eld of modeling and control of rotating stall and surge in compressors. A close coupled valve is included in the Moore-Greitzer compression system model and controllers for both surge and rotating stall is derived using backstepping. Disturbances, constant and time varying, are then taken into account, and nonlinear controllers are derived. Stability resu...

In this paper, a varactor with metal–semiconductor–metal diodes on top of the (NH 4) 2 S/P 2 S 5-treated AlGaN/GaN two-dimensional electron gas epitaxial structure (MSM-2DEG) is proposed to the surge protection for the first time. The sulfur-treated MSM-2DEG varactor properties, including current–voltage (I–V), capacitance–voltage (C–V), and frequency response of the proposed surge protection c...

The remarkable feature of the Mw 9.1 Tohoku-Oki earthquake of 2011 was a late, shallow, surge that propagated from about 12 km depth all the way to the trench. This surge had very large slip and was depleted in high-frequency radiation. It was followed by normal faulting in the outer wedge; this requires that the postsurge basal shear stress be close to zero. Explanations for the surge propagat...

The focus of this paper is a systematic determination of the relationship between grid resolution and errors associated with computations of hurricane storm surge. A grid structure is sought that provides the spatial resolution necessary to capture pertinent storm surge physics and does not overdiscretize. A set of numerical experiments simulating storm surge generation over 14 grid discretizat...

On-demand service platforms (e.g., Uber, Lyft) match consumers with independent workers nearby at short notice. To manage fluctuating supply and demand conditions across market locations (zones), many on-demand platforms provide market forecasts to workers and practice surge pricing, wherein the price in a particular zone is temporarily raised above the regular price. We jointly analyze the str...

The preovulatory luteinizing hormone (LH) surge results from the integration of complex interactions among gonadal steroids and hypothalamic and pituitary hormones. To evaluate changes in LH secretory dynamics that occur during the rat LH surge, we have 1) obtained frequently sampled serum LH concentration time series, 2) used both waveform-dependent and waveform-independent convolution analyse...

A negative surge is an unsteady open channel flow characterised by a drop in water surface elevation. In this study, a negative surge generated by the rapid gate opening was investigated experimentally with three types of bed roughness. Both instantaneous free-surface and velocity measurements were performed and the results were ensemble-averaged. The experimental data showed a rapid flow accel...