This study explored the predictive value of observer-rated and self-reported defensive functioning on the outcome of psychotherapy for the treatment of depression. Defense styles were measured according to the Developmental Profile (DP) and the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ) in 81 moderately severely depressed patients. All patients were treated with Short-term Psychodynamic Supportive Psych...

Over the recent years many advances in the area of nonlinear model predictive control have been made. However, with respect to the output feedback problem and predictive control only a limited number of results are available. Most of the existing approaches do only guarantee local stability. In this note we propose the use of a high gain observer in combination with a sampled nonlinear predicti...

background: los angeles classification is widely adopted as a means of unifying endoscopic observation for gerd. we assessed the inter- and intra-observer variability of la classification. materials and methods: two-hundred fifty-four still images of the lower esophagus taken by an expert endoscopist (rm) were randomly selected and presented to 9 gastroenterologists (2 females, 6 experts, 3 tra...

Hardware complexity of a motor drive can be reduced by estimating controls rather than measuring using sensors. In this way the corresponding sensors are eliminated and the system becomes more robust. This article is about speed control of a sensor less induction motor with predictive current controller technique. This particular speed control technique does not require direct measurements of m...

This paper examines the design of model predictive control using nonminimal state space models, in which the state variables are chosen as the set of measured input and output variables and their past values. It shows that the proposed design approach avoids the use of an observer to access the state information and, as a result, the disturbance rejection, particularly the system input disturba...

Finite-set model predictive controls have been widely used in inverter control because of the flexible target and no need a modulation unit. However, mismatching prediction parameters produces errors, resulting significant decline performance finite-set controls. Aiming at problem parameter mismatch, an extended-state observer was proposed to accurately estimate disturbance system this paper, o...

Model predictive current control can achieve fast dynamic response and satisfactory steady-state performance for induction motor (IM) drives. However, many parameters are required to implement the algorithm. Consequently, if used in controller not accurate, may deteriorate. In this paper, a new robust is proposed improve robustness against parameter mismatches. The method employs an ultra-local...