New proactive fault monitoring innovations are being developed, demonstrated on executing servers, and productized for enhancing the reliability, availability, and serviceability of enterprise-class servers. A continuous system telemetry harness (CSTH) has been developed that collects time series signals relating to the health of dynamically executing servers. These time series provide quantita...

Single crystals of CsU(2)Te(6) were synthesized from the reaction of U, Te, and Cs(2)Te(3) at 1273 K. CsU(2)Te(6) crystallizes in the space group Cmcm in the CsTh(2)Te(6) structure type. The asymmetric unit comprises one U (site symmetry m2m), one Cs (m2m; half-occupancy) and two Te atoms (m.. and m2m). The structure of CsU(2)Te(6) consists of infinite [U(2)Te(6)] layers perpendicular to [010] ...

This paper presents a data-driven predictive controller based on the broad learning algorithm without any prior knowledge of system model. The is realized by regressing model using online process data and incremental algorithm. proposed control (MPC) approach requires less computational load compared to other neural network MPC approaches. More importantly, precision enhanced with reduced opera...

Electronic Prognostics (EP) is a technique used in high-reliability and high-availability systems to actively and proactively detect faults, allowing the reduction of system downtime and unplanned repairs. The approach of Sun Microsystems to EP consists of a Continuous System Telemetry Harness (CSTH) that is coupled with Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT) and Multivariate State Estimation...

With the advent of computer control, supervisory controllers such as simple cascade control, model predictive control (MPC), dynamic matrix control (DMC), etc are increasingly being used in process industries. In this study, performance of three such controllers namely simple cascade controller, ‘MPC cascaded to PID’ and ‘PID free MPC’ are compared on a continuous stirred tank heater (CSTH) sys...

background: enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (etec) strains are the major causes of diarrheal disease in humans and animals. colonization factors and enterotoxins are the major virulence factors in etec pathogenesis. for the broad-spectrum protection against etec, one could focus on colonization factors and non-toxic heat labile as a vaccine candidate. methods: a fusion protein is composed of a...

From February to November 2006, 100 central venous catheters (CVCs) were collected from patients admitted consecutively to the medical and surgical intensive care units (ICUs) of Colombo South Teaching Hospital (CSTH), who had temperature >38°C. Before removal of the venous catheter, two blood culture samples were collected, one through the central venous line and the other from a peripheral ve...

In this work, a Modified Functional Link Artificial Neural Network (M-FLANN) is proposed which is simpler than a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and improves upon the universal approximation capability of Functional Link Artificial Neural Network (FLANN). MLP and its variants: Direct Linear Feedthrough Artificial Neural Network (DLFANN), FLANN and M-FLANN have been implemented to model a simulated ...

In this work, a Modified Functional Link Artificial Neural Network (M-FLANN) is proposed which is simpler than a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and improves upon the universal approximation capability of Functional Link Artificial Neural Network (FLANN). MLP and its variants: Direct Linear Feedthrough Artificial Neural Network (DLFANN), FLANN and M-FLANN have been implemented to model a simulated ...