This paper discusses the impact of network architecture on control performance in a class of distributed control systems called networked control systems (NCSs) and provides design considerations related to control quality of performance as well as network quality of service. The integrated network-control system changes the characteristics of time delays between application devices. This study...

This paper presents a detailed discussion of the technical aspects of the calibration process with emphasis on the definition of the measurand, the conditions under which the calibration results are valid, and the subsequent use of the calibration results in measurement uncertainty statements. The concepts of measurement uncertainty, error, systematic error, and reproducibility are also address...

Water intake and hydration status have recently gained attention as one of the many, and potentially manipulable, factors associated with disease development and wellbeing [1–7] . Researchers have explored a variety of physiological dysfunctions implicated with chronic low water intake and hypohydration, but particular interest resides in the study of obesity and related disease states due to o...

W develop and test an active-machine-learning method to select questions adaptively when consumers use heuristic decision rules. The method tailors priors to each consumer based on a “configurator.” Subsequent questions maximize information about the decision heuristics (minimize expected posterior entropy). To update posteriors after each question, we approximate the posterior with a variation...

Acknowledgments The authors thank KLICT: Chain networks, clusters, and ICT for financial support for part of this project; Olga Gommers for valuable research assistance; for insightful comments and suggestions; and an anonymous food product manufacturer for its valuable support of this project. Abstract In this article, the authors investigate consumers' consideration of media channels during d...

This paper focuses on the reheat furnace scheduling problem (RFSP) which is to assign the slabs to the reheat furnace, make the slab sequence for each furnace and determine the feed-in time and the residence time for each slab in order to reduce the unnecessary energy consumption reflected by minimising the objective under consideration. Differing from the traditional scheduling problem, the ac...

ECE The undersigned hereby certify that they have read and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate Studies for acceptance a thesis entitled " Face Illumination Normalization with Shadow Consideration " by Avinash B. Baliga in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. Permission is herewith granted to Carnegie Mellon University to circulate and to have copied for ...

Epidermolysis bullosa is a group of inherited rare skin disease, characterized by bullae formation in the skin or mucous membranes. The fundamental abnormality is collagen degeneration leads to splitting of various epidermal layers. Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) is one of the major forms of epidermolysis bullosa. These patients often admitted to the hospital for corrective surgeries, c...

W. von der Linden, K. Ertl, and V. Dose Max-Planck-Institut f ur Plasmaphysik, EURATOM Association D-85740 Garching b. M unchen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT. Soft X-ray tomography has become a standard diagnostic equipment to investigate plasma pro les. Due to limitations in viewing-access and detector numbers the reconstruction of the two-dimensional emissivity pr...

Since Ewing’s first report of a previously unrecognized tumor of bone derived from endothelial elements (1)’ there have been numerous reports of tumors which have conformed with his endothelial myeloma, and others which have sought to deny the existence of such a tumor. Among these was an article by the present writer (2) agreeing almost entirely with Ewing’s conclusions. Kolodny (3) believed t...