In total, 360 pigs slaughtered at 125 kg of BW and destined for the dry-cured industry were used to study the influence of sex and castration [immunocastrated males (IMC), surgically castrated males (CM), and intact females (IF)] in 2 terminal Large White sire lines [Top York (TY) and Tempo (TE)] on growth performance and carcass and meat quality. The female line was Large White × Landrace. The...

OBJECTIVE Esophagectomy is the standard treatment for high-grade dysplasia (HGD) and intramucosal adenocarcinoma (IMC) arising within Barrett's esophagus. Results of photodynamic therapy (PDT) were retrospectively studied to evaluate the effectiveness of PDT in ablating HGD and/or IMC complicating Barrett's esophagus. METHODS Thirty-one patients unfit for or refusing esophagectomy (male: 20, ...

Spatial disorientation (SD) accidents are a major contributor to the Class A mishap rate in the US Air Force. A recent investigation showed that transitions between visual meteorological conditions (VMC), when pilots use real-world visual cues to fly, to instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), when pilots have to use instruments to fly, were a leading cause of SD. In VMC, the true horizon i...

CONTEXT A micropapillary carcinoma (MC) component is generally considered to behave aggressively. Although several reports have described the prognostic significance of MC in breast carcinomas, immunohistochemical findings of MC, especially as compared to non-MC, are rarely described. OBJECTIVE We compared clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical findings between 38 cases of invasive breast ...

Copper wires are increasingly used in place of gold wires for making bonded interconnections in microelectronics. There are many potential benefits for use of copper in these applications, including better electrical and mechanical properties, and lower cost. Usually, wires are bonded to aluminum contact pads. However, the growth of Cu/Al intermetallic compounds (IMC) at the wire/pad interfaces...

This article presents a simple method of designing a fractional filter PID controller for second order plus time delay (SOPTD) processes using internal model control (IMC) scheme. There has been limited number of tuning rules for SOPTD processes developed using direct synthesis method and IMC method. The proposed IMC-PID controller using fractional IMC filter results in a controller structure c...

The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy trunk displacement extracted from an inertial motion capture system (IMC) compared to an optical motion capture system (OMC). Participants walked overground while trunk displacement data from IMC and OMC were simultaneously recorded. The resultant trunk speed from both systems during walking and brief standing periods were compared. No differe...

Multivariable plants under input constraints such as actuator saturation are liable to performance deterioration due to problems of control windup and directional change in control action. In this paper, we propose a two-stage internal model control (IMC) antiwindup design which guarantees optimal closed loop performance both at transient and at steady state. The two-stage IMC is based on the s...

Open-end winding induction machines fed from two standard two-level voltage source inverters (VSI) provide an attractive arrangement for AC drives. An alternative approach is to use a dual output indirect matrix converter (IMC). It is well known that IMC provides fully bidirectional power flow operation, with small input size filter requirements. Whilst a standard IMC consists of an AC–DC matri...