P.M. Session Chair: Prof Daniel Ho Students Contribution 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm 1) Shifang Kuang (SCUT) Stability and Numerical Methods of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems with Time-Delays 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm 2) Lulu Li (CityU) Practical Consensus in Multi-agent Networks with Communication Constrains 4:00 pm – 4:20 pm Coffee Break 4:20 pm – 5:20 pm 3) Xueyan Zhao (SCUT) Stability of Stochastic Functional ...

Inter-comparisons of European air quality models show that regional transport models, including the EMEP (Cooperative Programme for monitoring and evaluation of the long-range transmission of air pollutants in Europe) aerosol model, tend to underestimate the observed concentrations of PM 10 and PM 2.5. Obviously, an accurate representation of the individual aerosol constituents is a prerequisit...

This paper considers the problem of scheduling hybrid flowshops with machine availability constraints (MAC) to minimize makespan. The paper deals with a specific case of MAC caused by preventive maintenance (PM) operations. Contrary to previous papers considering fixed or/and conservative policies, we explore a case in which PM activities might be postponed or expedited while necessary. Regardi...

objectives the present study aimed to determine the effect of increased visitation time on physiological indices of the patients hospitalized in icus. materials and methods this clinical trial study was conducted in the icus of vail-e-asr hospital in arak city, iran. a total of 60 subjects were randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups with visitation time for 10 minutes 3 times ...

background: the role of diagnostic pathology has become more prominent. this study aimed to compare the accuracy of frozen section compared with permanent section in the morning and afternoon working hours. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 99 patients with stage 1 and 2 breast cancer who underwent sentinel and non-sentinel lymph node biopsy between 2013 and 2015 were included. the result...

BACKGROUND Particulate matter (PM) exposure has been linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease, possibly resulting from hypercoagulability and thrombosis. Lung and systemic inflammation resulting from PM inhalation may activate blood coagulation, but mechanisms for PM-related hypercoagulability are still largely unknown. OBJECTIVES To identify coagulation mechanisms activated by PM i...

Simulating human agents requires going beyond merely simulating the cognitive abilities of a human. It requires an analysis of human perceptual-motor abilities, the task being performed, and the artifact being used to perform the task. ACTR/PM is a system designed to foster such analyses.

Objective(s) Bupropion is an atypical antidepressant that is widely used in smoke cessation under FDA approval. The study of synaptic effects of bupropion can help to finding out its mechanism(s) for stopping nicotine dependence. In this study the effects of perinatal bupropion on the population spike (PS) amplitude of neonates were investigated. Materials and Methods Hippocampal slices were...

The present study was aimed to determine the protective effects of Plantago major L (PM) leaf extracts on the testicular torsion/detorsion (T/D)-induced ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in rats. Twenty-four mature male Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing 200-220 g, were selected. They were randomly divided into four groups of six animals each: Sham (sham-operated rats; all the surg...