Workers exposed to organic dusts from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are at risk for developing airway inflammatory diseases. Available preventative and therapeutic measures for alleviating dust-induced lung disease are inadequate. Because omega-3 fatty acids can mitigate inflammatory processes, we aimed to determine whether nutritional supplementation with the omega-3 fatty aci...

An exact series expansion is now known for the Principal Field Emission Elliptic Function v, in terms of a complementary elliptic variable l ′ equal to y 2 , where y is the Nordheim parameter. This expansion was originally found by using the algebraic manipulation package MAPLE. This paper presents a formal mathematical derivation. Recently, it has been discovered that v(l ′) is a particular so...

In a recent paper we presented the first adaptive control design for an ODE system with a possibly large actuator delay of unknown length. We achieved global stability under full state feedback. In this paper we generalize the design to the situation where, besides the unknown delay value, the ODE also has unknown parameters, and where trajectory tracking (rather than equilibrium regulation) is...

In this paper, we introduce SODES (Stepwise Ordinary Differential Equations Solver) a new solver for (ODE). can optionally provide the solution displaying all steps needed to obtain it. This way, is an important tool not only researchers who need solving ODE but also constitutes teaching and learning process of ODE. has been developed using programming with Computer Algebra System (CAS). Specif...