Behaviorally controllable stressors confer protection from the neurochemical and behavioral consequences of future uncontrollable stressors, a phenomenon termed "behavioral immunization". Recent data implicate protein synthesis within the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) as critical to behavioral immunization. Adult, male Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to a series of controllable tailsho...

Porous materials have been widely used in many fields, but the large-scale synthesis of materials with controlled pore sizes, pore volumes, and wall thicknesses remains a considerable challenge. Thus, the controllable synthesis of porous materials is of key general importance. Herein, we demonstrate the "pearl milk tea" freeze-drying method to form porous materials with controllable pore charac...

Microfluidic techniques open new frontiers for the controllable synthesis of functional micro/nanomaterials with desired shapes for a variety of applications. In this study, miniaturized spiral-shaped microchannel with two inlets and one outlet was specially designed for the controllable flow synthesis of mesoporous silica nanofibers (MSNFs) using one inlet flow containing cetyltrimethylammoniu...

We have developed a collagen-mRNA platform for controllable protein production that is intended to be less prone to the problems associated with commonly used mRNA therapy as well as with collagen skin-healing procedures. A collagen mimic was constructed according to a recombinant method and was used as scaffold for translating mRNA chains into proteins. Cysteines were genetically inserted into...

Abstract: A controllable series device (CSD) is used to damp the transient oscillations in a power system. The power system studied here is the single machine infinite bus (SMIB) and the CSD used is a controllable series capacitor (CSC). Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control (IDA PBC) is used for controller synthesis. The SMIB system is described with two different type...

Supervisory control theory for discrete event systems is based on finite state automata whose inputs are partitioned into controllable and uncontrollable events. Well-known algorithms used in the Ramadge-Wonham framework disable or enable controllable events such that it is finally possible to reach designated final states from every reachable state. However, as these algorithms compute the lea...

Control of modular and distributed discrete-event systems appears as an approach to handle computational complexity of synthesizing supervisory controllers for large scale systems. For both modular and distributed discrete-event systems sufficient and necessary conditions are derived for modular control synthesis to equal global control synthesis for the supremal controllable sublanguage, for t...