Some of the leading models and frameworks about Excellence from the last 25 years are presented and discussed: Peters and Waterman’s eight excellence attributes (1982), Peters and Austin’s simplified excellence model (1985), Lists of Best Practices, Xerox Excellence Models (1990, 2002), the European Excellence Model (1992) and two different but overlapping “4P Models” (1999, 2004). At the end o...

A number of models about identity development have been proposed based on Erikson’s theory such as Marcia’s (1966) Identity Status Model, Waterman’s (1992) Optimal Psychological Functioning Model and Berzonky’s (1992) Identity Styles Model. Marcia’s Identity Status Model is the model most frequently used in studies. Marcia (1966; 1989; 1994; 2002) defined four identity statuses based on explora...

Stacia Nordin I appreciate Zlotkin and colleagues’ years of work on the Sprinkle product, and it sounds like the product is much improved from the pill form of micronutrient treatments [1]. I’m not at all opposed to Sprinkle-type products or other nutrient pills for treatment (or in other special situations), but as ten years of international work experience on food and nutrition security issue...

Abtract: Time-delays (dead times) are found in many processes in industry. Time-delays are mainly caused by the time required to transport mass, energy or information, but they can also be caused by processing time or accumulation. The contribution is focused on a design of algorithms for adaptive digital control for processes with time-delay. The algorithm is based on pole assignment approach....

In this paper we implement in hardware, a novel approach for accelerating the S-W algorithm using Recursive Variable Expansion (RVE) technique, which enhances inherent parallelism and exposes extra parallelism as compared to any other technique. The results demonstrate that applying recursive variable expansion technique speeds up the performance by a factor of 3.83, as compared to traditional ...

The modified Smith predictor is well known as an effective time-delay compensator for a plant with large time-delays, and several papers on the modified Smith predictor have been published. The parameterization of all stabilizing modified Smith predictors for multipleinput/multiple-output time-delay plants was obtained by Yamada et al. However, they do not examine the parameterization of all st...