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In the field of experimental chemistry, it is extremely useful and necessary to have fast access to equations that link the physical and chemical parameters to the state. In this regard, starting with Bridgmann’s equations, an online application had been projected and implemented in order to generate all equations of first order derivatives of thermodynamic parameters for a closed system. MathJ...

This paper explores an evolution from closed-loop control to open-loop control for a planar manipula-tor. A reinforcement learning strategy is used to learn the open-loop commands from the closed-loop control. The goal is to produce a motion using purely open-loop control strategy, thereby eliminating the need for inter-link communication and on-line control computations. Initially closed loop ...

Post-harvest Processing (PHP) methods are viable food processing methods employed to reduce human pathogens in molluscan shellfish that would normally be consumed raw, such as raw oysters on the half-shell. Efficacy of human pathogen reduction associated with PHP varies with respect to time, temperature, salinity, pressure, and process exposure. Regulatory requirements and PHP molluscan shellfi...

We report localization of a cytosolic protein histidine phosphatase (PHP; approximately 16 kDa) in INS 832/13 cells, normal rat islets, and human islets. siRNA-mediated knockdown of PHP markedly reduced glucose- or mitochondrial fuel-induced but not KCl-induced insulin secretion. siRNA-mediated knockdown of PHP also attenuated mastoparan-induced insulin secretion, suggesting its participation i...

We consider the problem of planning in a stochastic and discounted environment with a limited numerical budget. More precisely, we investigate strategies exploring the set of possible sequences of actions, so that, once all available numerical resources (e.g. CPU time, number of calls to a generative model) have been used, one returns a recommendation on the best possible immediate action to fo...

in this paper a new method is introduced and investigated for removing the destabilizing effects of time-delay parameter in control loops. the concept of the method is taken from the knowledge concerning the dynamic behaviour of irrational transfer functions (ir-tf), which is discussed and investigated elswhere in frequency response domain and is explained briefly here. ir-tfs, which are well c...