... topics in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, and manufacturing, the Academic Press Series in Engineering provides state-of-the-art handbooks, textbooks, and professional ... planner and controller in order to handle unexpected or uncertain events, in other words, to achieve intelligent planning and control The concept of intelligent control was introduced as an interdisciplinary ... of the planner and controller to achieve a coordinated action and avoid deadlocks or infinite loops 2.1 EVENT-BASED PLANNING A N D CONTROL Introduction A traditional planning and control system...
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... in post-combustion capture is mainly aimed at reducing energy requirement and capital cost trough developing and adapting solvents, optimizing the required process installations and integrating ... second section includes four chapters Their authors are from Netherlands, USA, China and Spain Chapter provides an overview of the existing scientific base and insights into ongoing and needed scientific ... Dioxide Capture and Air Quality 25 In circulating fluidized bed boilers often limestone is injected into the furnace to control SOx emissions In the case of oxygen firing the in- furnace desulphurization...
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Subwavelength gratings for polarization control in terahertz and visible frequency ranges
... gratings GaN-based LEDs have been successfully commercialized in areas like solid-state lighting and large-panel display resulting from years of continuous efforts in improving material quality and ... the light emitting from LED plays a crucial role Being small and easy-to-integrate, subwavelength grating is an excellent polarization control component in making polarized light emission from ... work and organization of the thesis are outlined Following that, fundamental theories such as finite difference in time-domain, and surface plasmons that are necessary to understand the following...
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Báo cáo y học: "Strict glycaemic control in patients hospitalised in a mixed medical and surgical intensive care unit: a randomised clinical trial"
... 250) in the standard insulin group and 36.6% (93 of 254) in the intensive insulin group ICU mortality was similar for patients of the standard insulin group and in those from the intensive insulin ... standard insulin group and 83 of 254 (32.7%) in the intensive insulin group The mean calorie intake in 24 hours was 23.1 ± 12.7 kcal/kg in the standard insulin group and 25.5 ± 14.4 kcal/kg in the intensive ... 14 patients in the standard insulin group (5.6%) and 14 in the intensive insulin group (5.5%) The remaining patients received total-enteral feeding exclusively In the standard insulin group 47%...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35
Transactions in measurement and control
... because of savings in installation and operating and maintenance costs The classical Herschel venturi has a very long flow element characterized by a tapered inlet and a diverging outlet Inlet pressure ... when flow and density are at their maximum and viscosity at its minimum Conversely, the minimum RD is obtained by using minimum flow and density and maximum viscosity If acceptable metering performance ... be inserted into existing and pressurized pipelines (called hot-tapping) without requiring a shutdown • Theory of Operation Pitot tubes were invented by Henri Pitot in 1732 to measure the flowing...
Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 01:15
The Potential of Biofumigants as Alternatives to Methyl Bromide for the Control of Pest Infestation in Grain and Dry Food Products
... protection has increased and stands as the main alternative to methyl bromide Lately, insect resistance to phosphine has become an important issue for effective grain treatment (Nakakita and Winks, 1981; ... agriculture in developing countries has developed effective means for insect control using botanicals Their efficiency and optimal use still need to be assessed in order to make these means of insect control ... essential oils and their terpenoids, and their use in cosmetics and as flavoring agents in food and beverages, is a good indication of their relative safety to warm-blooded animals and humans They...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20
Congestion and Error Control in Overlay Networks
... protocol introduced in [46] is aimed at eliminating the instability and periodic losses inherent in both RLC and RLM This is due to the bandwidth inference in these protocols caused by the join experiments ... nodes are entire domains instead of individual routers BGMP builds and maintains group shared trees with a single root domain, and can optionally allow domains to create single-source branches ... non-multicast specific include flooding, improved flooding and spanning trees The flooding algorithms are more akin to pure broadcasting and tend to generate large amounts of network traffic The spanning tree protocols...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 17:15
A first course in fuzzy and neural control
... computing approaches in decision making have become increasingly popular in many disciplines This is evident from the vast number of technical papers appearing in journals and conference proceedings ... conference proceedings in all areas of engineering, manufacturing, sciences, medicine, and business Soft computing is a rapidly evolving Þeld that combines knowledge, techniques, and methodologies ... this control scheme is to maintain a desired level of ßuid in the tank by opening or closing the valve controlling the output Such opening and closing operations either increase or decrease the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2014, 17:41
Tài liệu Global action plan to control the spread and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrho pdf
... AMR testing through retraining of health-care providers and laboratory technicians • producing and disseminating standards for performing N. gonorrhoeae culture and AMR testing • working with ... technicians and building capacity for performing culture and AMR testing • increasing the availability of routine laboratory services for gonococcal culture and AMR testing in clinical laboratories ... efforts3 Despite the financial and often constraining scientific and regulatory processes in place, it is critical to continue research in AMR to understand, prevent and treat new infections The lack...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Cues and control in Expert-Client Dialogues" docx
... prior to the control shift was a prompt We might therefore explain these shifts as resulting from the person in control explicitly indicating that he had nothing more to say (In the following examples ... How then repetitious and summaries operate as cues? In summarising, the speaker is indicating a natural breakpoint in the dialogue and they also indicate that they have nothing more to add at that ... high level structures in these dialogues as evidenced by topic initiation and control, with early topics being initiated and dominated by the client and the opposite being true for the later...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Subgrammars, Rule Classes and Control in the Rosetta Translation System" ppt
... more and more desirable that the syntax be subdivided into parts with well-defined tasks and well-defined interfaces with other parts It should be stressed that the isomorphy and not the interlinguality ... r u l e applications In many cases the grammar writer has a certain ordering of the rules in mind, e.g he may want to express that the rules for inserting determiners during NP-formation should ... desirable In section it was noticed that the introduction of transformation rules requires some way of controlling their applicability The control expressions introduced in section and formalised in...
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Acid Gas Scrubber for Multi-Pollutant Reduction - Emission Control and Measurement Workshop pot
... of Particulate, SOX and NOX emissions Specializing in reduction of Oil Refinery Emissions More systems installed and operating than ALL other competitors “COMBINED” Offering a wide range of solutions ... Wet Scrubbing Installed years ago as SRU tail gas treater at a Refinery in Europe Operating on a 40,000 bpsd FCCU in Italy since June 2003 Operating on a 60,000 bpsd FCCU in the USA since October ... 5000 and 6000 models) 17 Multiple Modules in Each Scrubber Efficient and Reliable Fine Particulate Control Internal Drain Pipe Scrubber Exterior Scrubber Exterior Scrubber Interior Scrubber Interior...
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Water Pollution Control in China: Review of laws, regulations and policies and their implementation pptx
... promoting circular economy; controlling environmental pollution and promoting source prevention; formulating and implementing regulations on prevention and control of various pollution; instructing, ... environment in Taihu River Basin” The range of this plan include cities and 30 towns in Jiangsu province, cities and 20 towns in Zhejiang province, and towns in Shanghai The plan can be divided into ... monitoring system and evaluation system)”28) Major implementation measures include “Promoting water pollution control in major river basins”, “reducing pollution in major industries and accelerating...
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Poultry health and disease control in developing countries doc
... developing industry The interfacing of industry and government poultry health production activities can then help to drive both (Bagust, 1999; Information Note on “Veterinary Roles in Health and ... education in China for sustainable and profitable production Y2000+ Proceedings of the First International Conference on Veterinary Poultry: Beijing, 28–30 July 1999, pp 61–69 Chinese Animal Husbandry ... Government agencies and all industry stakeholders stand to benefit Interaction between government and industry representatives is therefore essential for successful design and planning, and also later,...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20
Jim ledin embedded control systems in c and c++ an introduction for software developers using MATLAB 2004
... Implementing and testing discrete-time floating-point and fixed-point controllers in C and C++ Adding nonlinear features such as limiters to the controller design About the Author Jim Ledin, P.E., ... fundamental concepts of control systems engineering and describes the steps of designing and testing a controller It introduces the terminology of control system design and shows how to interpret block ... PID structure, including PD, PI, and proportional-only control, can be realized by setting one or both of the ki and kd parameters (the integral and derivative gains) in the PID_Initialize() function...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The pivotal regulator GlnB of Escherichia coli is engaged in subtle and context-dependent control potx
... more effectors may be involved in the regulation via interactions with the different proteins operating in the cascade, resulting in an integration of the various signals Indeed, UTase appears ... also interested in the control exerted by GlnB on the deadenylylation reaction in cells grown in the absence of ammonia Again we induced GlnB to various levels by growing the GlnB-tuneable strain ... versus subtle control rather than by strongly amplifying the signal It may sense, interpret and integrate signals concerning energy, carbon and nitrogen status GlnB is not alone in being apparently...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21
Báo cáo khoa học: Oxygen binding and its allosteric control in hemoglobin of the primitive branchiopod crustacean Triops cancriformis pdf
... effectorbinding functions This approach successfully describes proton binding [59] and urate binding [63] in hemocyanins Here, we assume the simplest effector-binding model with h identical proton-binding ... saturations of the ith point, and k is the number of data points Adair equation To determine the minimum number of interacting binding sites necessary to describe the data, the binding curves were analyzed ... Jena Antonini E & Brunori M (1971) Hemoglobin and Myoglobin in Their Reactions with Ligands North-Holland Publishing Co, Amsterdam and London Weber RE (1981) Cationic control of O2 affinity in lugworm...
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Control of Dioxins (and other Organochlorines) from the Pulp and Paper Industry under the Clean Water Act and Lead in Soil at Superfund Mining Sites: Two Case Studies in EPA''''s Use of Science potx
... Smelting and Refining Company, a subsidiary of the Anaconda Company, had a lead mill and smelter at Tooele After the war, lead-zinc mining production in Utah declined In 1958, US Smelting and International ... Dioxin from Pulp and Paper and Lead in Soil at Mining Sites A Control of Dioxins (and Other Organochlorines) from the Pulp and Paper Industry under the Clean Water Act Background The term dioxin ... coordinating role and concentrated on the risks from effluents, sludge, and occupational exposures The EPA coordinator was a Dioxin from Pulp and Paper and Lead in Soil at Mining Sites 25 Dwain Winters,...
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COMPREHENSIVE AND UNIFIED POLICY FOR TB CONTROL IN THE PHILIPPINES docx
... Comprehensive and Integrated Policy for TB Control in the Philippines Beginning in January 2002, the organizing committee began a series of stakeholders’ meetings and on World TB Day, March 2002, a Memorandum ... case finding) Doubtful Government commitment to ensuring sustained, comprehensive TB control activities A standard recording and reporting system that allows assessment of case finding and treatment ... should be encouraged to continue taking medicines Gastro-intestinal intolerance Mild skin reactions Orange / red colored urine Pain at the injection site Burning sensation in the feet due to peripheral...
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