The objective of this study is to design a robust direct model reference adaptive controller (DMRAC) for a nonlinear cardiovascular model over a range of plant parameters representing a variety of physical conditions. The direct adaptive controllers used in thisd study require the plant to be almost strictly positive real (ASPR) that is, for a plant to be controlled there must exist a feedback ...

Microscopy as “field based test” was compared with IS900 blood PCR for the diagnosis and estimationof prevalence of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) in domestic livestock withclinical Johne’s disease (JD). Of 252 animals screened, 39.3 and 13.1% were positive by faecal microscopyand blood PCR, respectively. Proportional agreement between “microscopy” and blood PCR was subst...

Background: Paratuberculosis and tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (MAP) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC), respectively are economically important, chronic debilitating diseases affecting the dairy herds and are also potential zoonotic threats. Aims: Differential diagnosis of paratuberculosis and TB i...

The norm of the mth derivative of the map that takes an operator to its kth antisymmetric tensor power is evaluated. The case m = 1 has been studied earlier by Bhatia and Friedland [R. Bhatia and S. Friedland. Variation of Grassman powers and spectra. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 40:1–18, 1981]. For this purpose a multilinear version of a theorem of Russo and Dye is proved: it is shown ...

The norm of the mth derivative of the map that takes an operator to its kth antisymmetric tensor power is evaluated. The case m = 1 has been studied earlier by Bhatia and Friedland [R. Bhatia and S. Friedland. Variation of Grassman powers and spectra. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 40:1–18, 1981]. For this purpose a multilinear version of a theorem of Russo and Dye is proved: it is shown ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to identify associations between the concentration of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) antibodies in bulk milk and potential risk factors in herd management and herd characteristics, explaining high MAP antibody titers in milk. An extensive questionnaire was administered to 292 organic and conventional dairy farms from New York, Wiscon...