Fractional order PID controller has two degrees of freedom more than the integer order PID controller,and it has better control performance. The paper briefly describes the fractional order PID controller, and through Ziegler-Nichols type tuning rules, Padula & Visioli tuning rules and tuning by minimization methods to achieve fractional order PID controllers respectively. Additionally, the Ous...

We have identified a family of genes that code for targets for opsonic antibody and protective immunity in T. pallidum subspecies pallidum using two different approaches, subtraction hybridization and differential immunologic screening of a T. pallidum genomic library. Both approaches led to the identification of a polymorphic multicopy gene family with predicted amino acid homology to the majo...

This investigation examined the hypothesis that acute heavy resistance exercise (AHRE) would increase overnight concentrations of circulating human growth hormone (hGH). Ten men (22 +/- 1 yr, 177 +/- 2 cm, 79 +/- 3 kg, 11 +/- 1% body fat) underwent two overnight blood draws sampled every 10 min from 1700 to 0600: a control and an AHRE condition. The AHRE was conducted from 1500 to 1700 and was ...

Basic Valence Orientation has been suggested as a typological parameter by Nichols, Peterson, & Barnes (2004). Generalising over the entire lexicon, the idea is that languages can be distinguished as transitivising or detransitivising, depending on whether their verbs are basically intransitive or transitive and the opposite valency values require some means of derivation, such as causativisati...

R Koehler*, E Grünig*, M W Pauciulo*, M M Hoeper, H Olschewski, H Wilkens, M Halank, J Winkler, R Ewert, H Bremer, S Kreuscher, B Janssen, W C Nichols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

An appearance suggesting extreme fragmentation of chromosomes has been referred to as "pulverization" by Nichols et al. (1). A different appearance, that of accentuated secondary constrictions (or chromomeres), was described by Stubblefield in a Chinese hamster cell line, Don (2). In 1967 zur Hausen (3) described an appearance more often occurring in chromosome No. 1 and referred to as "incompl...

A total of 54 clinical samples, including genital lesion swabs, whole blood and cerebrospinal fluid from patients diagnosed with syphilis were collected in 2006 and in 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Treponemal DNA was detected in 43 of the analyzed samples (79.6%) and further analyzed using Sequencing-based molecular typing (SBMT) and Enhanced CDC-typing (ECDCT). By SBMT, 10 different Trepone...

The idea that incompatibilism is intuitive is one of the key motivations for incompatibilism. Not surprisingly, then, philosophers who defend incompatibilism often claim that incompatibilism is the natural, commonsense view about free will and moral responsibility (e.g., Pereboom 2001, Kane 1999, Strawson 1986). This claim has received some support from empirical studies that indicate that when...

We give the classification of quiver Hopf algebras with pointed module structures. This leads to the classification of multiple crown algebras and multiple Taft algebras as well as pointed Yetter-Drinfeld modules and their corresponding Nichols algebras. In particular, we give the classification of graded Hopf algebras on cotensor coalgebra T c kG(M) of kG-bicomdule M over finite commutative gr...

In the structure theory of quantized enveloping algebras, the algebra isomorphisms determined by Lusztig led to the first general construction of PBW bases of these algebras. Also, they have important applications to the representation theory of these and related algebras. In the present paper the Drinfel’d double for a class of graded Hopf algebras is investigated. Various quantum algebras, in...