BACKGROUND Patients with a reduced nonlinear component of heart rate regulation have a poorer outcome. METHODS AND RESULTS We investigated whether a nonlinear correlation between renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) and blood pressure or renal blood flow is reduced in conscious, spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) by comparing them with normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). We also deter...

An aggregate game is a normal-form game with the property that each player’s payoff is a function only of his own strategy and an aggregate function of the strategy profile of all players. Aggregate games possess a set of purely algebraic properties that can often provide simple characterizations of equilibrium aggregates without first requiring that one solves for the equilibrium strategy prof...

This paper introduces a new class of simple nonlinear PID controllers and provides a formal treatment of their stability analysis. These controllers are comprised of a sector-bounded nonlinear gain in cascade with a linear fixed-gain P, PD, PI, or PID controller. Three simple nonlinear gains are proposed: the sigmoidal function, the hyperbolic function, and the piecewise]linear function. The sy...

We report on longitudinal beam-transfer function BTF measurements at the Advanced Light Source ALS for large phase-modulation amplitudes. As the amplitude of the swept-frequency excitation is increased, the dipole beam response around the synchrotron frequency develops a notch in the amplitude response with a corresponding sharp jump in the phase response. These observations are explained by a ...

This paper presents a procedure for the identification of two types of a continuous-time linear system interconnected by direct and feedback memoryless nonlinearities. The first case is the continuous time Hammesrstein system and the second is a specific case of the continuous time Wiener system. The direct and feedback nonlinear elements, described by bounded unknown functions, are expressed a...

The paper is devoted to the parameter identification of the axial dispersion model in the closed–open canal. It is oriented to the identification precision for the two variants of the flow model with various variance levels. The identification method is based on the transfer function application for the solution of given model PDE. When the impulse function g(t) is obtained, the characteristics...

In this paper we develop a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for regulation of a cement mill circuit. The MPC uses soft constraints (soft MPC) to robustly address the large uncertainties present in models that can be identified for cement mill circuits. The uncertainties in the linear predictive model of the cement mill circuit stems from large variations and heterogeneities in the feed materia...

An aggregate game is a normal-form game with the property that each player’s payoff is a function only of his own strategy and an aggregate function of the strategy profile of all players. Aggregate games possess a set of purely algebraic properties that can often provide simple characterizations of equilibrium aggregates without first requiring that one solves for the equilibrium strategy prof...

Abstract We give topological criteria for the convexity and the concavity of a current or a voltage in a resistive circuit, as a function of a source voltage or current, when the nonlinear resistor characteristics are all either convex or concave. When the criteria are satisfied, all circuits with the same structure will have a convex, or all will have a concave transfer characteristic. The app...

The choice of transfer functions may strongly influence complexity and performance of neural networks. Although sigmoidal transfer functions are the most common there is no a priori reason why models based on such functions should always provide optimal decision borders. A large number of alternative transfer functions has been described in the literature. A taxonomy of activation and output fu...