Currently it is envisioned that, for numerous industrial applications, a paradigm shift occurs from Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) towards reconfigurable hardware designs. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) constitute means for the implementation of reconfig-urable processors and lately are integrated with General Purpose Processor (GPP) cores. Designing for such FPGA devi...

This paper presents a systematic procedure for designing a wide-area centralized Continuous Time Model Predictive Controller (CTMPC) to improve the angular stability of a multi-machine power system. In this scheme, each generator is assumed to be provided with a local controller to damp out the local mode of oscillations and also employs a global signal from the centralized controller to damp o...

A review is given of the background to and results of the succesful pharmacological testing of [AuX(2)(damp)] (X = Cl, OAc; damp = 2-Me(2) NCH(2)C(6) H(4)) against a range of microbes, fungi and tumouts, culminating in in vivo xenografts of ZR-1-75. These are the first fully evaluated gold(III) complexes. The activity and reactions of the diacetato-complex bear a resemblance to cisplatin, and s...

Inflammation is increasingly implicated in neurodegenerative disease pathology. As no acquired pathogen appears to drive this inflammation, the question of what does remains. Recent advances indicate damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) molecules, which are released by injured and dying cells, can cause specific inflammatory cascades. Inflammation, therefore, can be endogenously induced. ...

"adipocere" we only find one publication which speaks of this change being observed in a warm country, i.e., " Eight cases of Saponification " by S. C. Mackenzie (.Indian Medical Gazette, 1889, XXIV, p. 42). The author was Police Surgeon at Calcutta, and claimed that during 9 years lie observed 8 cases of adipocere-formation in bodies of persons drowned in the Hooghlj^, or buried in damp soil. ...

A quantized controller is a model-free controller which can provide a nonlinear control. This paper conduct a preliminary study on using the quantized controller in the Static VAR Compensators (SVC) control to enhance the damping of the power-swing. The test system used is a two area multi-machine system. A severe disturbance is introduced into the power system and the quantized controller cont...