Abstract: A successful application of a hybrid (mixed Petri net/automaton) approach for the real-time supervisory control of an experimental manufacturing system was reported recently. The hybrid approach includes a Ramadge– Wonham (RW) supervisor in the form of an automaton. The reduced RW supervisor offers fewer states for the programmable logic controller (PLC) implementation of the hybrid c...

I. Smit J, Søgaard M, Schønheyder HC, Nielsen H, Thomsen RW. Classification of healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: Influence of different definitions on prevalence, patient characteristics, and outcome. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2016;37:208-211. II. Smit J, Søgaard M, Schønheyder HC, Nielsen H, Frøslev T, Thomsen RW. Diabetes and risk of community-acquired St...

We have previously demonstrated that protection from allergic inflammation by Ascaris suum infection was characterized by a global increase in interleukin-10 (IL-10) and the development of protective CD4(+)/CD25(+) T cells (L. Schopf, S. Luccioli, V. Bundoc, P. Justice, C. C. Chan, B. J. Wetzel, H. H. Norris, J. F. Urban, Jr., and A. Keane-Myers, Investig. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 46:2772-2780, 20...

PURPOSE This study aimed to determine the prevalence and severity of recurrent wheezing (RW) defined as ≥3 episodes of wheezing, risk factors, and treatments prescribed during the first year of life in Latin American infants. METHODS In this international, cross-sectional, and community-based study, parents of 12,405 infants from 11 centers in 6 South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Ch...

PURPOSE To evaluate the distribution and factors related to planimetrically determined vertical cup/disc (v-C/D) and rim width/disc diameter (Rw/Dd) ratios of the optic discs in a population-based study of Japanese subjects without glaucoma. METHODS Of 4632 eligible residents 40 years of age and older, 3762 residents underwent a detailed ocular examination including sequential optic disc ster...

This paper presents the results of non-contact measurements of the human ear round window (RW) membrane motion in freshly harvested human cadaver temporal bone specimens. A PSV 400 Scanning Laser Vibrometer system (Polytec, Waldbronn, Germany) was used to determine the effect of stapedotomy on the sound-induced displacement amplitude of the RW membrane. The vibration patterns were measured in t...

This paper will treat the bifurcation and numerical simulation of rotating wave (RW) solutions of the FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) equations. These equations are often used as a simple mathematical model of excitable media. The dependence of the solutions on a uniformly applied current, and also on the diffusion coefficients or domain size will be studied. Ranges of applied current and/or diffusion co...

Maternal high-fat (HF) diet has long-term consequences on the metabolic phenotype of the offspring. Here, we determined the effects of postweaning exercise in offspring of rat dams fed HF diet during gestation and lactation. Pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats were maintained on chow or HF diet throughout gestation and lactation. All pups were weaned onto chow diet on postnatal day (PND) 21. At 4 wk o...

This work proposes and studies the properties of a hybrid sampling scheme that mixes independent uniform node sampling and random walk (RW)-based crawling. We show that our sampling method combines the strengths of both uniform and RW sampling while minimizing their drawbacks. In particular, our method increases the spectral gap of the random walk, and hence, accelerates convergence to the stat...

Arterial blood collected from sheep was analyzed for various amino acids to evaluate effects of dietary forage characteristics on adequacy of amino acid availability for protein synthesis. In three experiments with grass diets consumed Ž . ad libitum or in limited quantities by nearly mature wethers, differences in grass source and or quality generally did not Ž markedly affect arterial concent...