Pectinolytic Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp. are necrotrophic bacterial pathogens of many important crops, including potato, worldwide. This study reports on the isolation and characterization of broad host lytic bacteriophages able to infect the dominant Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp. affecting potato in Europe viz. Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum (Pcc), P. wasabiae (P...

BACKGROUND Sleep-related breathing disorders may promote cardiovascular (CV) diseases. A novel and differentiated approach to overnight photoplethysmographic pulse wave analysis, which includes risk assessment and measurement of various pulse wave characteristics, has been evaluated in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess if and which of the differ...

Many legal issues will affect the health care worker during the AIDS pandemic. These issues are now beginning to be contested in our courts. It is certain that their numbers will continue to grow in the foreseeable future. As local, state, and federal governments design and implement new laws concerning PWA, mechanisms for surveillance, and control of AIDS, new issues are sure to arise. These w...

Optimal Control and Estimation Strategies for Nonlinear and Switched Systems Mehdi Abedinpour Fallah This dissertation includes two main parts. In the first part, the main contribution is to use an inverse optimality approach to analytically solve the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation of a third order nonlinear optimal control problem for which the dynamics are affine and the cost is quadratic i...

Piecewise affine (PWA) feedback control laws defined on general polytopic partitions, as for instance obtained by explicit model predictive control, will often be prohibitively complex for fast systems. In this work the authors study the problem of approximating these high-complexity controllers by low-complexity PWA control laws defined on more regular partitions, facilitating faster on-line e...

Pulse wave analysis (PWA) allows estimation of cardiac output (CO) based on continuous the arterial blood pressure (AP) waveform. We describe physiology AP waveform, basic principles PWA algorithms for CO estimation, and technologies available clinical practice. The waveform is a complex physiological signal that determined by interplay left ventricular stroke volume, systemic vascular resistan...

Pawns are behavioural mutants (in one of three genes) of Paramecium aurelia that have lost, to varying degrees, the reversal response which is thought to depend on the calcium influx during excitation. This report shows that all of the single and double mutants have reduced active inward (calcium) current, the reduction correlating with the degree of behavioural deficit. All of the mutants disp...

The aim of this paper is to propose a joint cross-layer approach between application layer and MAC layer for enhancing Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia applications. Bandwidth adaptation scheme based on application utility function is used in the application layer as it reflects the satisfaction degree of end-users with the allocated bandwidth. Prioritized Weight Assignment (PWA) in MAC ...