This paper describes a procedure for adaptive output feedback sliding mode control(SMC) based on Almost Strictly Positive Real(ASPR)-ness for a class of multi-input/multi-output linear time invariant systems. Stability of the control system is achieved by using the parallel feedforward compensator(PFC), which guarantees ASPR-ness of the plant. Effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed t...

BACKGROUND Atopic eczema is a common childhood disease associated with high IgE and eosinophilia. We characterized the clinical features associated with hyper-IgE (defined as IgE > 2000 IU/L) in eczema. METHODS Nottingham Eczema Severity Score (NESS), family and personal history of atopy, skin prick test (SPT) for common food and aeroallergens, highest serum IgE ever and eosinophil counts wer...

This Article investigates dissipative preparation of entangled non-equilibrium steady states (NESS). We construct a collision model where the open system consists two qubits which are coupled to heat reservoirs with different temperatures. The baths modeled by sequences interacting system. can be studied in dynamical regimes: and without environmental memory effects. report that only certain ba...

This paper endorses and expounds the widely held view that all experience involves pre-reflective self-consciousness or self-awareness. It argues does not involve any sort of ‘me-ness’ ‘mine-ness’, is essentially relational, has subject as intentional object, representation, in particular self-representation, well ‘immediate acquaintance’, immediate self-acquaintance; cannot one primordial resp...

This paper presents a new computational strategy for predicting Nuclear Export Signals (NESs) in proteins of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana based on a random forest classifier. NESs are amino acid sequences that enable a protein to interact with a nuclear receptor and in this way to be exported from the nucleus to the

Sti®ness decompositions originating from two distinct eigenvalue problems are applied to sti®ness synthesis by springs. The resulting free-vector and line-vector syntheses provide a clear geometric explanation of the methods. Numerical examples and algorithms are also provided to verify the results.

E ectiveness of a new semiactive independently variable sti ness (SAIVS) device in reducing seismic response of sliding base isolated buildings is evaluated analytically and experimentally. Through analytical and experimental study of force—displacement behaviour of the SAIVS device, it is shown that the device can vary sti ness continuously and smoothly between minimum and maximum sti ness. Pa...

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A person’s social position shapes whether and how they can influence organizational change. While prior research establishes people whose combines outsider-ness insider-ness as important change agents, we know little about We analyse a peer coaching initiative in Canadian hospitals to explain outsider-insiders – this case, outsiders with professional proximity advance Peer coaches were able by ...