Lyapunov-based Switching to Mitigate Antimicrobial Resistance

Lyapunov-based switching supervisory control of nonlinear uncertain systems

Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents

The main reason for the current unsatisfactory situation is that, worldwide, there is no effective regulation of the use of antibiotics. In many nations drugs are freely available "over the counterî and even in countries where most drugs are only available on prescription there may be little control. The practice in some societies of doctors prescribing the most potent drug available just in ca...

Strategies to mitigate student resistance to active learning

Background: Research has shown that active learning promotes student learning and increases retention rates of STEM undergraduates. Yet, instructors are reluctant to change their teaching approaches for several reasons, including a fear of student resistance to active learning. This paper addresses this issue by building on our prior work which demonstrates that certain instructor strategies ca...

Switching Lyapunov Functions for Periodic TS Systems

This paper considers the stability analysis of periodic Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models. For this we use a switching Lyapunov function defined at the time instants when the subsystems switch. Using the developed conditions we are able to prove the stability of periodic TS systems where the local models or even the subsystems are unstable. The application of the conditions is illustrated on numerical...

Scoping review to identify potential non-antimicrobial interventions to mitigate antimicrobial resistance in commensal enteric bacteria in North American cattle production systems

A scoping review was conducted to identify modifiable non-antimicrobial factors to reduce the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in cattle populations. Searches were developed to retrieve peer-reviewed published studies in animal, human and in vitro microbial populations. Citations were retained when modifiable non-antimicrobial factors or interventions potentially associated with antimicro...